Of the 200,000 doses of Janssen vaccine officially delivered to France since mid-April, the Booth pharmacy, in the 12e arrondissement of Marseille, received ten. Backed by a shopping mall, this dispensary nevertheless sees nearly 400 people pass through every day. “We are far from an intensive campaign”, smiles the pharmacist, Christophe Guidoni, behind his mask. Its first two vials – of five doses each -, ordered almost a month earlier, arrived in the middle of last week, accompanied by three others for doctors in this residential area. This Monday, May 3, he is organizing his first session of injections with the « Janssen » – from the name of the laboratory, pharmaceutical subsidiary of the American group Johnson & Johnson -, the last of the vaccines authorized on the French market. Seven volunteers in the morning, three in the afternoon, notified by phone before the weekend. All doses must, in principle, find a taker.
10 million doses expected
In a cubicle where walking boots and orthopedic shoes are stored, Dominique Tassol, 67, is the first to sit down and pull up her sleeve. “I do it because my husband insists. Me, I’m a little afraid ”, slip this secretary, who lives “Close to”. The husband, Jean, 71, is waiting for his turn: “I want to do it to be quiet. “And because we want to go on vacation to Turkey and we know that we will need a vaccination passport”, complete Dominique. “I wanted the Janssen because there is only one dose to do”, breathes Pascal, 58, who takes over. Administrative in national education, he prefers to remain anonymous: “Today, I am teleworking. “ For several weeks, he had been looking for an appointment on the Internet but could not find one. “When I came to buy drugs, I learned that the pharmacy was vaccinating; I signed up. “
White hair, azure blue wheeled cart, Odile, 81, still hesitates. “My children push me; I am not sure ”, rumine-t-elle. “Why with this one, it takes only one dose and why the others, it takes two? “, she asks. “It’s better to be vaccinated, Timothée Hentz, the pharmacist who gives the injections, gently slips him. Afterwards, if you don’t want to come, you can cancel. ” Odile leaves, leaving name and phone number, ” unwillingly “. On his waiting list, Christophe Guidoni compiles a hundred people. And no one wants to be vaccinated with the doses of AstraZeneca that are still sleeping in the fridges.
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