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It’s my health. The vaccination passport

A vaccination passport or first an up-to-date vaccination record? (GETTY IMAGES)

Some countries in Europe require the vaccination passport to allow entry into their territory only to vaccinated people. We talk about it with Jean-Paul Hamon, general practitioner in Clamart and Honorary President of the Federation of Doctors of France.

franceinfo: What do you think of this vaccination passport?

I think it’s a little premature to talk about a vaccination passport because we do not know the degree of contagiousness of the vaccinated people, and as long as we do not know their degree of contagiousness, establishing a vaccination passport is no use. almost nothing, except perhaps to reassure the countries that will receive the vaccinated people and that these people will not clutter their resuscitation service since the vaccines protect serious forms.

For now, the government is not in favor. Like you, he says it’s premature, especially because not everyone can be vaccinated yet …

Yeah, well, there are people who talk about discrimination. There are people who would have the right to go to restaurants and not others. People who would have the right to go to the theater, to the cinema and not others. This is all a bit of a stretch. It is clear that hey, we must vaccinate as many people as possible. And then we will mark that on the vaccination record and it would be good if everyone had a vaccination record. I see this morning that quite a few elderly people have kept a vaccination record on which I wrote the Pfizer vaccine that I gave them. And it would be nice if it was an opportunity for everyone to have a vaccination record.

This vaccination record, would it not only allow us to know where we are with the vaccine against the Covid, but all the vaccines which are also essential?

So there was an electronic vaccination record that was launched. We spent a lot of money on it, but unfortunately it is not widespread. And that will be very useful with your Vitale card, we access your file, and then we have an electronic vaccination record. You are known to have been vaccinated against tetanus or against hepatitis B or measles mumps rubella. These are vaccines that are extremely useful. And therefore, the urgency would not be to have a vaccination passport, but for everyone to have a vaccination record.

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