Doctor Jean-François Lemoine offers every Tuesday on Why Doctor and Medical Frequency in partnership with the VYV group his news meeting on the second wave of Covid-19. Contents this week, the update on the vaccination strategy against Covid-19: which are the 3 candidate vaccines that will be used; what place for each health profession in the upcoming vaccination campaign; why pharmacists are asking to be associated with this campaign; one of its challenges will be to convince doctors and the general public of the interest of this vaccination.
Guests of Dr. Jean-François Lemoine:
– Dr. Jean-Paul Marre of Medical Frequency: the three vaccines that should be used are those of Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca; they all aim to generate antibodies against the Spike protein that allows SARS-CoV-2 to infect human cells; the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are messenger RNA vaccines, a first for human vaccination; questions remain about the effect of these vaccines on infectiousness and how long they will protect.
– Thierry Borsa, editor-in-chief of Why Doctor: the major challenge for this vaccination campaign is to overcome the growing distrust of vaccines; liberal doctors should be placed in the front line in this vaccination campaign; we should not use “vaccinodromes” for mass vaccinations, as was the case in 2009 for vaccination against the H1N1 flu.
– Gilles Bonnefond, pharmacist and president of the Union of Dispensary Pharmacists’ Unions: the profession which has vaccinated more than 3 million French people against the flu claims its participation in the vaccination campaign against Covid-19; the president of the USPO denounces the pressure of doctors to be the only ones who can vaccinate and believes that the requirement of a consultation to administer the vaccine could “delay and worry”.
– Dr. Jacques Battistonipresident of MG France: he stresses that “the vaccine against Covid-19 is the only solution to get out of this epidemic”, that this vaccination campaign must be accompanied by information “as transparent as possible” and fears that there is to date “a lack of strategy” to carry it out in the best conditions.
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