The Order of Physicians first called on caregivers to be vaccinated against Covid-19. The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, for his part sent a letter to health professionals, inviting them to be inoculated with the vaccine. It is now the turn of the Academy of Medicine to advocate for a vaccination against the coronavirus, mandatory for caregivers.
“Vaccination hesitation is ethically unacceptable”
In a press release dated March 9, the Academy of Medicine issued a simple and concise recommendation: “ make vaccination against Covid-19 compulsory for all health professionals », Whether they work in the public sector, liberal, in health establishments or in nursing homes. Caregivers caring for the elderly should also be concerned. For learned society, vaccines represent the best way to achieve ” effective collective immunity against the Covid-19 pandemic “. The Academy of Medicine believes that “ The Covid-19 pandemic, which represents the most serious health and economic crisis since World War II », Justifies that vaccination should be made compulsory. Thus, she judges that ” vaccine reluctance is ethically unacceptable among caregivers “.
Covid-19, a nosocomial disease
The Institution also recalls that “ The caregiver population is the cause of 34% of grouped cases of nosocomial infections with SARS-CoV-2 “. It is for this reason, according to her, that the vaccination against the Covid-19 disease was immediately accessible to health professionals. Obviously, they have been on the front line since the start of the epidemic. This is why the Academy of Medicine reminds them that they are responsible for the health of patients, in addition to their own. In addition, according to the Minister of Health, doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine are available to them. For now, vaccination coverage rates among doctors, nurses and nursing assistants remain “ notoriously insufficient “. As a reminder, the National Academy of Medicine’s mission is to ” respond to government requests on everything that concerns public health, and mainly on epidemics “.
