A recent survey confirms the French anti-vaccination trend since around a quarter of French people would not consider getting vaccinated. Enough to place France at the back of the pack of European countries most resistant to vaccines.
- 74% of the world’s population say they are ready to be vaccinated against the coronavirus according to this survey.
- 24% of French people questioned say they are against the vaccine “in general”.
The polls follow and look alike. A new poll published on Tuesday September 1, carried out by Ipsos and commissioned by the World Economic Forum, reveals that France is one of the European countries most resistant to being vaccinated against Covid-19. A first poll, carried out by YouGov, for the Huffington Post, revealed that a third of French people would refuse to be administered a vaccine against the coronavirus. Previously, it was sociologist Jeremy Ward who estimated between 20 and 25% the share of the population who would be against a vaccine to protect themselves from Covid-19.
24% of French against the vaccine “generally”
In total, 74% of the world’s population say they are ready to be vaccinated against the coronavirus according to this survey, conducted among 19,519 adults across 27 countries. At the top of the list, we find the Chinese who are 97% to want to be vaccinated. Behind, there are Brazilians and Australians (88%) who are very largely in favor. A little further, the United States is 67% to declare for the vaccine. For France, only 59% of respondents plan to be vaccinated. A figure that places us in fourth place among the most refractory countries, just ahead of Hungary (56%), Poland (55%) and Russia (53%).
France is on the podium of the countries with the most people opposed to the vaccine. 20% of respondents say they are firmly against the vaccine, compared to only 1% of Chinese or 7% of the British. Several reasons are given by the anti-vaccines to justify their reluctance. First, there is the fear of side effects (60%), followed by doubt about its effectiveness (33%) and the belief that Covid-19 is not a dangerous virus (14%). In addition, 24% of French people questioned say they are against the vaccine “generally”.
The vaccine, at least to reduce overcrowding in hospitals
American researchers from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy in New York carried out simulations to establish from what effectiveness the vaccine would stop the spread of the disease. Their results, published on July 15 in theAmerican Journal of Preventive Medicine, have shown that the effectiveness of the vaccine will have to be at least 60% to extinguish the current epidemic if 100% of the population is vaccinated. If this coverage drops to 75%, this efficiency will have to increase to 80%. “All of this suggests that a vaccine alone will not allow a return to normal (emancipation from barrier gestures and social distancing), unless there is a very high efficacy rate and vaccination coverage that seems unrealistic.”, concluded the authors of the study.
If the vaccine failed to achieve sufficient efficacy, it would be of no use. “This does not mean that a vaccine with lower efficacy (below 80%) would not be useful.insist the researchers. The objective of a vaccine is also to reduce congestion in the health system.” The researchers calculated that a 40% effective vaccine would prevent 89.5 thousand days of hospitalization and 2.8 million people put on mechanical ventilation. In addition, it will be necessary to establish a vaccination strategy and target the most vulnerable people as a priority. “Already that the flu vaccine remains optional for the majority of us, we will not be able to make it compulsorybelieves Benjamin Wyplosz at Why doctor. It is still too early to establish a vaccine strategy, if only because we do not know how many doses of vaccine will need to be administered for it to be effective. But it will certainly be necessary to establish the people to be vaccinated first, such as caregivers or firefighters.”
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