By Laurent REBOURS
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In this wednesday, February 9, 2022, there are no crowds at the vaccination center of Chartres (Eure-et-Loir), at Chartrexpo, avenue Jean-Mermoz.
In any case not the crowd that could have known this place during vaccination peaks with days when more than 3500 people were there. But it must be said that this Wednesday afternoon, from 14h to 18h is also a dedicated slot, reserved for children from 5 to 11 years.
Stands in the colors of children’s worlds
The prefect of Eure-et-Loir, Françoise Souliman, moved this Wednesday to draw up the inventory of this childhood vaccination.
For this specific event, the hall takes on more attractive finery for the youngest with stands in the colors of the Snow Queen, of the Paw Patrol, of Lion king or from Spiderman… not to mention a small stock of treats.
Well, sometimes there is a “little bit worse” in some children a little stressed but very soon the medical staff or the firefighters, comforting, are taking good care.
Overall all the same we can say that we are really surprised to see how many kids are, not only volunteers but that they bring their parents there and get everyone vaccinated!
The atmosphere is rather relaxed, like this family with the three toddlers from the Yvelines “because we like Chartres and we are on vacation next week” where all were vaccinated at the same time.
Encouraging figures but vigilance remains in order
The prefect came with rather good news in his escarcelle “since we now know a incidence rate that is below 2000, the weakest in the Centre-Val de Loire region and which fell by 500 points in one week”.
With twenty-one people still in intensive care and critical care, this is also a figure that is falling.
However, these good advances must be weighted because emergency hospitalizations still continue to increase and we have a positivity rate of 36.8 which remains high.
Screenings in sharp decline
Another significant teaching, the sharp decline in screenings from 29,000 to 22,000 per week in the department, but the school holidays are most certainly for something associated with the decline in positivity.
The decline in vaccination is also to be taken into account, everywhere in the four centers of the department (Chartres, Dreux, Chateaudun, Nogent-le-Rotrou) but it is likely to go up towards the weekend with the regularization of vaccination passes on February 15.
“A dose can be avoided if we have had Covid, some people show up to get vaccinated when they have had it” emphasizes the prefect.
Foresee the worst, hope for the best
Françoise Souliman specifies that the centers will have the same operation until March with the idea of avoiding a disaster reopening in the event of a new wave.
An approach that has paid off so far while other large agglomerations had significantly reduced the wing in view of the decline in contamination.
From a logistical point of view, it is much more cumbersome and complicated to reopen a center than to keep them as they are, although we will obviously adapt the schedules and the presence of staff. But collectively we did well not to close while in October the Omicron wave arrived followed by the third booster dose.
Clusters in nursing homes and companies
The departmental director of the Regional Health Agency, Denis Gelez, for his part insisted on the need not to let down his guard and to continue barrier gestures and distancing :
We can see that there are still quite a few clusters in the Ehpads of Eure-et-Loir affecting up to twenty people because we have families who come to visit but no longer respect barrier gestures as well as before.
Clusters that also stand out in companies with the return of collective breaks, pots and the relaxation of sanitary gestures.
80% of hospitalized are unvaccinated
Denis Gelez points out in passing that to date “eight out of ten people in emergency hospitalization are unvaccinated people. It is necessary to pay attention to the most fragile people “.
A large number of contaminations come from children in the family circle. Hence these dedicated slots, open since January 12, with a studied, more playful course, where the supervisors really take their time to accompany them.
In the last seven weeks, 2900 children have been vaccinated, with the rate of eligible children in Eure-et-Loir being higher than the national average of 4.6%.
To date in the department, 79.8% of the population has been vaccinated, a figure exactly the same as the national “and a good figure” rejoice the speakers.
Vaccinations are still being done in temporary centers, which is also paying off because they are twenty to sixty first-time vaccinees who are concerned every day in neighborhoods or isolated places.
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