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The vaccination campaign will soon start in France, provided that the marketing of vaccines is authorized by the Medicines Agency. France Assos Santé wanted to know the opinion of people who will be vaccinated as a priority.
A survey carried out by the Viavoice Institute
The first wave of vaccination is scheduled for early January in France. The government has already unveiled its strategy: vulnerable people will receive the serum before others. This therefore concerns professionals who work in nursing homes and the elderly who reside there, staff of USLDs (long-term care units) but also professionals in the health, medico-social and medical transport sector. To find out their opinion on the anti-covid vaccine, the Viavoice institute interviewed, for France Assos Santé, 2,000 people aged 18 and over, using an online questionnaire, from 23 to 30 November 2020. In fact, at given the speed with which these vaccines are being developed, the public may be suspicious. However, according to France Assos Santé, vaccines are a beacon of hope: “ Two vaccines available in January, less than a year after the start of the epidemic: the performance deserves to be commended. And behind it, the commitment of all those, scientists, industrialists, public authorities, but also volunteers to test candidate vaccines, who have mobilized to face the health emergency. “.
“An encouraging score”
Among the results of the survey, 63% of people 65 years and over say they are ready to be vaccinated as well as 53% of patients with chronic disease. However, the Association notes that “ Questions remain, concerns are expressed, all legitimate, but France Assos Santé sees these two figures as an encouraging score, and above all likely to change. “. It also reminds us that everyone must make their decision with full knowledge of the causes. People who are reluctant to get vaccinated might change their minds, if public authorities are transparent, ” from the injection to any reactions or even adverse effects “. The organization wants to be determined, “the confidence resulting from fair, honest and up-to-date information” is essential.
The desire to be vaccinated is an individual choice, but also altruistic, insofar as it allows to protect oneself and therefore, to protect others. In its press release, France Assos Santé also indicates that “ Without this collective dimension, no large-scale immunity, no place in our hospitals for people with cancer or waiting for a transplant, no serenity for the oldest among us, and no return to normal life before long “.