The 5th wave of Covid-19 does not spare Occitania: over the past 15 days, the incidence rate has almost doubled and the number of hospitalizations is up + 32% over 7 days. The Regional Health Agency is sounding the alert and calling on the population to be vaccinated and to receive an anti-Covid booster dose.
Among the participants in this press conference this Wednesday, December 1, the president of the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council, Alain Fischer, underlines that the protection against the risk of developing a severe form of the disease is “of the order of 90%” when you are vaccinated.
Importance of the vaccine booster
According to Professor Alain Fischer, this protection decreases over the months. From where “the importance of get a booster dose vaccine “, he insists. “The effect of the booster dose is excellent”, explains the professor, since it allows “to obtain a protection 10 to 20 times greater than that which precedes the administration of this third dose”.
The chairman of the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council also notes that the application of barrier gestures has decreased in France since the summer. But, as previous waves have taught us, winter temperatures and confinement favor the spread of the coronavirus. For Alain Fischer it is therefore essential to become serious again about the application of these gestures, “by wearing the mask, promoting teleworking or even ventilating the rooms regularly”.