After people over 80, the lower tranche of the population “at risk” will be able to receive a second reminder, in order to protect themselves against severe forms.
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The measure was expected, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, announced, Thursday, April 7, on RTL: the fourth anti-Covid-19 vaccination dose will be open to a wider audience. Faced with the current wave of Omicron and the gradual weakening of protection provided by the first two doses and the vaccinal recall, an additional injection is now proposed to people aged 60 to 79 years. Since March 14, people over 80 years old were already invited to present a fourth time their shoulder in order to receive the precious Cocktail based on messenger RNA. Therefore place to the youngest.
To justify this new phase, the Minister of Health has invoked the data of international studies that all show the effectiveness of the first reminder to prevent serious forms. “We know that a recall injection, when we are 60 and over, reduces the risk of hospitalization, resuscitation and death by 80%, has summarized Olivier Véran. Even if this risk is lower today That he was with the previous variants and when there was no vaccine coverage, there is a residual risk. It can be reduced by four, so we propose. “Olivier Véran also mentioned the Opinion, Wednesday, April 6, by “the European authorities”, at the request of France, which currently chairs the Council of the European Union and those submitted for two weeks by the different French authorities.
Positions, in reality, quite divergent. Wednesday, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Center for Disease Prevention (ECDC) have, for the first time, recommended, In a common opinion , the Administration of a second reminder. But they have very clearly reserved for people over 80 years old. The reason is an assessment of the famous “residual risk” mentioned by Olivier Véran. Alternatively, is there a weakening in the time of protection offered by the third dose and a manifest improvement thereof with a fourth injection? For both agencies, 80-year-old people remain “limited”. But “taking into account the fragility of this population, the lowest immune response to the higher vaccination and risk of serious form, a second reminder can be issued,” they say.
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