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The candidates for monkeypox vaccination are numerous, and the windows are insufficient. Faced with demand, pharmacies are called upon. This is currently an experiment, with five pharmacies in three regions.
With Frejus (var)a pharmacy in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhone) is one of the two pharmacies in the PACA region which vaccinates from Wednesday August 10 against monkey pox. The volunteers were quick. “It’s my freedom to get vaccinated or not, and I take advantage of it since we are lucky to have free vaccines“, says a man. In this pharmacy, the appointment book is already full. For two weeks, the pharmacist will be delivered piecemeal. It has about thirty doses for the week.
Logistics is the challenge of experimentation. Thawed doses will keep for two weeks. In Lille (North)a pharmacist watch respecting the cold chain. “We must be able to have a supply that corresponds as accurately as possible to the number of doses that will be administered, to avoid having dormant stocks and wasted doses.“, explains Fabien Florack. The pharmacy is one of the means of reaching the target audience more quickly: 250,000 people, mostly in the male homosexual community.