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The validity of a vaccination pass is conditional on the realization of a booster dose of the vaccine against Covid-19. And if the latter is not done in time, the famous sesame can be deactivated. This will concern 9 million French people on February 15.
“There are still 9 million French people who could lose the benefit of the vaccination pass on February 15 if they have not taken their booster dose.“said the Minister of Health on LCI. On this date, the time to perform this booster dose will be reduced to four months (compared to seven previously) after the last injection. “I tell them this morning, go make an appointment, there are millions of slots available, don’t wait until the last moment“, he said.
When will the vaccination pass be lifted?
The vaccination pass will be maintained “as long as there is a threat to hospitals“, which still had 3,776 patients in intensive care on Monday evening, a figure that has been in very slight decline for a few days. For a lifting of the vaccination pass, the figures for hospitalizations (including resuscitation) must be “compatible with normal hospital operation“, without rescheduling operations as is currently the case, said Olivier Véran.
And since Omicron is less serious than Delta, “there is now more interest in the health impact“than to the number of daily contaminations – some 360,000 on average over the last seven days – he noted.
Disappearance of the Delta variant
“We are crushing the Delta wave (…) but the Omicron wave is still very active. We have not yet passed the peak, even if this is the case in certain regions, such as Ile-de-France. It’s a matter of a few days“, he estimated.
On the “sub-variant” of Omicron, known as BA.2, the minister was reassuring: based on the first feedback from Denmark, where it would have become the majority, “it is no more dangerous than Omicron, but just as contagious” and “this does not change anything on the impact of vaccination“.
“What the Danes tell us is that it is exactly the same, with one difference, it is that we could potentially re-contaminate ourselves with BA.2 even when we have already been contaminated with Omicron. This could give it a competitive advantage.”he pointed out.
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Get vaccinated rather than catch Covid-19
For people who contracted the virus after two doses of the vaccine, the booster is postponed for six months. This pushes some people to try to have the Covid-19 rather than carry out a vaccination booster. A dangerous attitude, as Catherine Hill, epidemiologist and biostatistician at the Gustave Roussy center in Paris, reminds our colleagues at La Dépêche: “Here we have people who expose themselves to all the risks associated with contamination: from the long Covid through the development of a serious form of the disease, to possible death The risk of death is not enormous , but it is real”.