In an interview with the “Journal du Dimanche”, the president of the advisory board for the vaccine strategy believes that the level of protection for these populations is no longer optimal.
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As France faces a seventh wave of the Covid-19 epidemic, Professor Alain Fischer, president of the vaccine strategy advisory council, is beating the vaccination recall for the over 60s and fragile people . In an interview at Sunday newspaper dated June 26, he invites them to be administered their second vaccination booster.
“Despite the cumulative effect of injections and infections, the level of protection [de ces populations] is no longer optimal. Moreover, the vaccines remain safe: there are no more side effects during a fourth dose. It’s simple, the 8.5 million eligible French people who have not yet received it must go to their pharmacy or their general practitioner.declares the “Mister vaccines” of the government.
“The data shows that with a fourth dose the level of neutralizing antibodies goes back to the same level as after the third. Protection against severe forms is therefore restored to more than 90% for a number of months. Frankly, a injection twice a year, it’s not so terrible!”he plays down.
For Alain Fischer, these repeated vaccination campaigns do not bear witness “a relative failure” messenger RNA vaccines but unlike a “Immense success, even if it remains imperfect” : “These vaccines have prevented a very large number of deaths, hospitalizations and confinements.”