Hmm. Pres Macron told TF1 tonight that France would have “offered a vaccine" to all adults who wanted one before the end of summer. He denied French vax prog was falling behind. But France injected only 45,000 people yesterday. What’s going on? 1/5
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First Macron’s promise was carefully worded. He didn’t say that France would vaccinate all willing bodies (two jabs needed) before the end of the summer. He said France would offer (“proposer”) them a vaccine (which might mean only a first jab). 2/5
In fact both are possible if France starts jabbing faster. Many adult will refuse. According to a recent poll only 56% are willing (ie 29,000,000 French adults). Two jabs for all would require 58,000,000 injections- or 276,000 a day by end Aug. One jab - 138,000 a day. 3/5
Yesterday France injected 45 296 people of whom 22,525 got their second jab. In the whole of February it is planning 2.4m jabs - less than 100,000 a day. This rate should and must increase once the simpler AstraZeneca vaccine is available in mid Feb. 4/5
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The AZ vax was approved for under 65s in France today. Pharmacies and nurse will be allowed to administer this vaccine. In theory (according to pharmacy reps) they could manage up to 500,000 jabs a day!!. A game-changer? Only if France gets the doses to them 5/6
As I have been saying in recent thread, the problem is NOT slow supplies from the EU. By the end of Feb the health ministry says France will have received 8,000,000 doses since the vax drive began on 27 Dec. As things stand it is planning to use only circa 4,000,000 of them. 6/6
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