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Covid-19. Are you between 18 and 49 years old? Here are some tips (without cheating) to be

To reduce his chances of having the coronavirus and one Covid-long, to avoid infecting those close to them, to limit the circulation of the virus and reduce the possibility of variants appearing …

If you are under the age of 50, the reasons for doing so vaccinate can be many. A majority of young people also want to receive an anti-Covid vaccine, according to a poll revealed on May 7.

But vaccination can come under the Stations of the Cross. Whileit will not be officially open to all adults until June 15, that is to say in a little more than a month, it is however possible to be vaccinated now, and without cheating. Here’s how.

Follow our live dedicated to the coronavirus epidemic of this Tuesday, May 11.

Find an available appointment

As of May 11, all adults can make an appointment the day before for the next day. to get vaccinated against Covid-19 with unused vaccine doses. With logistics already ready, this opening is taking place one day before the date announced by President Macron.

How to do ? Several websites allow you to find available appointments. The best known of these is Doctolib, which brings together thousands of appointments every day. 20,000 slots are available for the same day or the next day depending on the platform. When registering, you must check the box “People over 18 for appointments available by tomorrow evening”.

However, you will need to be patient and not hesitate to check the site several times a day to find a dose near you.

Other sites exist. Quick My Dose, search engine developed by data scientist teams Guillaume Rozier, detects and lists all the free slots according to your location. In this site, the functionality Chronodose makes it easy to find an appointment for the same day or the next day.

This May 11 in the early morning, these sites indicated for example that some slots are available in Saint-Brieuc or in the Sarthe.

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Look for cities that already open vaccination to everyone

Throughout the territory, the rule is simple: vaccination will not be open to everyone until mid-June. But already, some cities well advanced in their vaccination have opened up vaccination to everyone. If you don’t live far away, you can already make an appointment for the date that suits you or go there.

This is for example the case of Roanne, in the Loire or in Bastia (Corsica) et Douai (North).

You don’t live there? Nothing prevents you from taking your car or hopping on a train. “You can get vaccinated in any department regardless of where you live”, confirmed to West France the Directorate General of Health on May 11.

Register on waiting lists

Several vaccination centers have set up waiting lists for people who cannot yet be vaccinated. It is therefore possible to go to a vaccination center to ask to be included on these lists. Be careful, if you are very young, this technique is not guaranteed: many centers favor the oldest people on the list.

This trick is also available in digital version via the site Covidlist, which consists of a digital waiting list. You just have to enter your name, address and phone number and the platform will contact you if a slot is available at the last moment.

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Activate your networks

If you have a caregiver in your family or friends, now might be the time to take advantage. As explained by the Directorate General of Health or the High Authority of Health, the remaining doses in the evening can be administered to everyone, the goal being not to throw them away.

Nothing therefore prevents a caregiver participating in the vaccination from preventing a loved one at the end of the day so that he / she receives a dose of vaccine.

Read also: Covid-19. Waiting list, plunger… Who benefits from the remaining doses of vaccine in the centers?

Line up at a vaccination center

If you have a little time, you can go to a vaccination center. Caregivers very often have extra doses, due to non-honored appointments or extra doses contained in the vials. In the evening, it is therefore not uncommon for people who have not made an appointment and who are waiting in front of the gates to be authorized to benefit from the vaccination.

Each center being organized as it sees fit, some favor the criterion of age (the oldest first), but not all. Disadvantage of this technique: it is quite random depending on the day and the reception of doses and it can take time.

Pharmacies or doctors? It’s still too early

Pharmacies and doctors are also participating in the vaccination campaign. But for now, they can only administer doses of AstraZeneca or Janssen. However, these two vaccines are reserved for over 55s and this should not change in the next few weeks. People under the age of 55 cannot therefore go to their doctor or pharmacy to be vaccinated.

This will only be possible when the doctors and the pharmacists will have received doses of Pfizer or Moderna, which is not yet the case. They will be able to order Moderna vaccines from May 17, for delivery scheduled for the following week and first injections possible from May 28.

What about the second dose?

If any of these techniques work for you, good news: you won’t have to do the same for the second dose! When making your first appointment or when you are vaccinated, the last step is to make an appointment for the second dose. You can therefore go directly to the center to receive the rest of the vaccination.

But be careful, it is preferable that the second injection takes place in the same place as the first. “We strongly recommend that the second injection be in the same center so as not to disrupt the logistics chain and dose allocation. Nevertheless, it is possible to make an appointment in another center but you must then make sure to cancel the appointment initially planned in the first center ”, specifies the DGS, body of the Ministry of Health managing the vaccination campaign.

While waiting for the second dose, all you have to do is continue with the barrier procedures, the vaccine not being effective immediately, and to avoid any excess such as alcohol, to make the first injection as effective as possible.

Caregivers, people with co-morbidities… Special cases

All of these techniques are only valid if you are under 50. People over 50 can make an appointment anytime.

Likewise, some people under the age of 50 can also benefit from appointments when they wish if they are caregivers or if they have a co-morbid condition. In this last case, it is not compulsory to present a prescription.

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