Vaccination against Covid-19: “We must generalize the third dose to everyone”, pleads the infectious disease – franceinfo

While the Health Defense Council meets on Tuesday, November 9, Karine Lacombe, infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist, speaks out in favor of an extension of the third booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to the entire population. “We are many to wait for the extension of the third dose beyond the risk categories”, asserted on France Inter the head of the infectious diseases department at Saint-Antoine Hospital (AP-HP).

“What would be important is to have a strong gesture towards the third dose”, pleads the infectious disease specialist, who recalls that for “caregivers, regardless of their age, the third dose is indicated. Carers were the very first to be vaccinated in January and many of them saw their antibody levels – although they did not particular risk factor – drop dramatically before this third dose after six months “. For Karine Lacombe, “we must generalize this third dose to everyone”.

For the infectious disease specialist, the question of maintaining the health pass linked to the injection of the third dose must be raised. “If we really see that for access to this third dose there is a brake, we will have to consider integrating it into the health pass”, says Karine Lacombe. “We can see that the health pass which was made compulsory on July 12 is probably the element that made it possible to control the epidemic”. The epidemiologist believes that “that would be a good thing” that Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday evening during his speech.

.@ LacombeKarine1 : “Many of us are waiting for the extension of the third dose beyond the risk categories” # le79inter pic.twitter.com/1MpSF3mBFv

– France Inter (@franceinter) November 9, 2021