He has not “not fully fulfilled its objectives”. The vaccine pass did not make it possible to restart injections of vaccines against Covid-19, especially since government announcements have “scrambled the message”, according to a report by a Senate inquiry committee published on Thursday, February 24. Now, given the evolution of the epidemic since mid-January and the ebb of the fifth wave, the senators who authored the report are calling for the vaccination pass to be lifted. “without delay”, based on objective indicators, but “with caution because the epidemic remains unpredictable”.
“The announcement of the vaccine pass was followed by a definite increase in primary vaccinations between mid-December 2021 and the end of January 2022, but it did not make it possible to target the oldest unvaccinated people as a priority” , judge this report on “adequacy” from measurement to the evolution of the Covid-19 epidemic. Rather, the report calls for “focus efforts on the most vulnerable populations”, elderly or with comorbidities, to further increase the vaccination rate.
The increase in vaccination quickly faded at the start of 2022, partly under the effect of the wave of contamination due to the Omicron variant, which canceled or postponed the need to be vaccinated, recalls the Social Affairs Commission, endowed with the prerogatives of a commission of inquiry.
And “the succession of sometimes contradictory announcements” authorities “contributed to blurring the message addressed to the population”, write the authors of the report, Chantal Deseyne (LR), Olivier Henno (UC), Michelle Meunier (SER). The horizon for the lifting of certain restrictions from the beginning of February, linked to improved health, has “certainly contributed to limiting the main effect of the vaccination pass of encouraging unvaccinated people” to receive an injection.
Another criticism of the commission chaired by Catherine Deroche (LR): “In view of the restrictions it imposes, both qualitative and quantitative monitoring of the effects of the vaccination pass is largely insufficient, and does not allow its impact on the control of the epidemic and on the progress of vaccination to be assessed.
Outraged “the preponderant place of the health defense council”, who “does not promote the acceptability of the measures” and “finishes to unbalance the institutions”, the rapporteurs regret that the executive did not “not supported enough” to establish the vaccination pass on the agencies and health authorities responsible for providing their expertise.