Barely 500 people in France received a dose of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine one week after the start of the vaccination campaign. This slowness irritates the medical community which requires a boost, like the Dr Jean-Marie Woehl, guest of RTL this Sunday January 3.
The president of the medical commission of the civil hospitals of Colmar (Haut-Rhin) launches an appeal: “We can understand that it is necessary to inform, to ensure the consent in particular of the oldest, the most fragile. But there is a many caregivers already convinced and ready to receive the vaccine, it must be done quickly to stop the absenteeism curve in the hospital because of colleagues affected by Covid-19, “he said.
At Colmar hospital, no dose has been delivered for the moment because the establishment is not one of the “100 pivotal establishments” concerned by the first distribution stage. “The prospect for us is still that of January 18, but I believe that there is an awareness of the urgency, I hope that this will result in a real acceleration. (…) It is necessary that flows are accelerated and extended to hospitals that are not pivotal. “His establishment notably has a” freezer at -80 ° C, free and waiting to receive the vaccines. “
Jean-Marie Woehl recalls that there is an emergency because already, deconfinement has led to an increase in contamination. “We have reopened intensive care beds during the Christmas holidays, and now we fear the worst for the next few days, when the ‘holiday season’ effect will be felt, “he warned.
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