Weekly French vaccination thread.
A slower week for needles in arms - 242,303 1st jabs a day, substantially down on last week. France is, however, still on course to hit 50m 1st shots by the month's end. The Fr total of 1st jabs is now just over 46m –only 1.1m behind the UK.
1/12
A slower week for needles in arms - 242,303 1st jabs a day, substantially down on last week. France is, however, still on course to hit 50m 1st shots by the month's end. The Fr total of 1st jabs is now just over 46m –only 1.1m behind the UK.
1/12
Protests against the health pass will continue across France today for a 5th Saturday. The government expects the number of marchers to grow slightly from last week’s 237,000. Those (like me) who predicted that the protests would shrivel in August have been proved wrong.
2/12
2/12
It’s difficult to say what will happen to such a bizarre alliance of the thoughtful, the dotty, the sincere and the cynical - far-left, far-right, anarchists, fundamentalist Cathos, anti-semites, conspiracy nuts and apolitical opponents to limits on personal freedoms. 3/12
I note, however, that the anti-pass movement appears to be strongest in an arc around the Med coast and into Aquitaine – coinciding with some of the lowest rates of vaccination in France. It also takes in some of the areas with the highest levels of 4th Covid wave infection.
4/12
4/12
It is also worth repeating that the 4th wave pandemic is slowing earlier than expected in most of Metropolitam France (68.4% 1st vaxxed; 57.4% fully vaxxed) but raging in the Dom-Toms, especially Guadelpoupe ( 25% 1st vaxxed and 19% fully vaxxed). 5/12
As President Macron said last week, low-vax rates in overseas France (caused by deep cultural resistance) have become a grim proof that VACCINATION WORKS. One in 5 people in Guadeloupe is now infected. The incidence rate is zooming. In France as a whole it’s flattening. 6/12
But look also at the worst- afflicted départements in European France. Holiday crowds may partly be responsible for high infection rates in the South and SW but Bouches-du Rhone, Var, Hérault etc are also relatively low-vax places and hot-spots of anti-vax/anti-pass feeling. 7/12
Highest incidence rates (cases per 100,000 people/7 days): Guadeloupe 2,130.4, Martinique 1,164, Bouches-du-Rhône 689.9, Corse-du-Sud 620.6, Hérault 602.1, Alpes-Maritimes 596.7, Haute-Corse 571.2, Var 546.1 Vaucluse 472.7. Pyrénées-Orientales 451.1, Gard 450.8, Aude 427.4. 8/12
This week’s vax figures
The daily av.of 1st jabs has slipped to 242,303, as Doctolib predicted that it would. The pace is expected to pick up next week. Fr has 1st-jabbed 46,109,683 people – 10m up in a month since Macron announced the pass. Full vaxxes have almost hit 39m.
9/12
The daily av.of 1st jabs has slipped to 242,303, as Doctolib predicted that it would. The pace is expected to pick up next week. Fr has 1st-jabbed 46,109,683 people – 10m up in a month since Macron announced the pass. Full vaxxes have almost hit 39m.
9/12
To put the number in context (with graph by @nicolasberrod ).
Fr. has 1st vaxxed 68.4 of its population and fully vaxxed 57.4%. Leaving aside 12-17 yr olds (now 51% vaxxed) the adult population is 82% 1st vaxxed and 70.6% fully vaxxed.
10/12
Fr. has 1st vaxxed 68.4 of its population and fully vaxxed 57.4%. Leaving aside 12-17 yr olds (now 51% vaxxed) the adult population is 82% 1st vaxxed and 70.6% fully vaxxed.
10/12
The boom in 1st jabs since Macron announced the pass has been especially strong in 18-24 year olds (now 76.6% 1st vaxxed compared to 49% on 12 July) and 25-29 yr olds (74.3% compared to 48.9%). But coverage of over 80s- 83.4% 1st vaxxed - remains poor. 11/12
At the present rate France (240,000 1st jabs a a day) should overtake the UK (36,000 a day) in total 1st shots by the end of next week. I originally projected 15/16 Aug. I will be out by 3 -4 days.
Going on a holiday trip myself from Sun. No threads for a while. Keep safe.
12/12
Going on a holiday trip myself from Sun. No threads for a while. Keep safe.
12/12
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