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2 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Weekly French Vaccination Thread
Minimal service this week because there isn't much to report. The pandemic is melting; vaccinations are trickling along but have reached v high totals. From now on I will merge my 2 weekly threads into 1, on Wed, covering pandemic/vax stats. 1/5
First vaccinations are down to 40,000 a day. Many vaccination centres are closing. The 1st jab total has reached 50.5m – which is 75% of the entire pop. and over 88% of adults. The numbers creep up daily but it’s going to be tough to reach 5m or so stubbornly unvaxxed adults 2/5
The 3rd jabs for the elderly/fragile have reached over 1m people. Complete vaccinations are now scarcely behind 1st jabs. Using an updated total for the Fr. population (67.4m), these are @nicolasberrod’s calculations of vax %'s for a) total pop; b) plus 12s; and c) adults. 3/5
Breaking down the stats into smaller age groups, 30- somethings (“only” 83.2% 1st jabbed) are still the most vax-resistant. Top of the class are 70-somethings (over 97%). 50/60 somethings are 90%+ jabbed. 40 somethings 87%. 18-29’s around 87%. Over-80s have crept up to 86%. 4/5
The pandemic in France continues to shrink rapidly. There are now less than 5,000 cases a day; the incidence rate is 54.1 (cases per 100,000 people/ every 7 days); average daily deaths are 46.
Hang in there.
5/5

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I delayed the thread today in the expectation of big news from the health defence council under President Macron’s chairmanship this morning. In the event, a decision on whether to suspend the “health pass” in low Covid départements was postponed. 1/10
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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.
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The flattening of the Delta wave of Covid in France (earlier than expected) is confirmed this week – in all but the overseas départements, especially Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean, where it’s raging out of control. 1/8
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Weekly French vaccination thread.

A reasonably good week for the Fr. vaccination programme – an average of 330,022 first jabs a day, down on last week but excellent for August and still nearly double the rate before Macron announced the “health pass” on 12 July. 1/8
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