Black Friday 2021: flash sales and weekend promotions – Linternaute.com

3RD DOSE. Things will change from December 15 for people 65 and over. On Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron indeed announced that a 3rd dose will be mandatory for them, if they want to keep their health pass.

[Mis à jour le 13 novembre 2021 à 18h55] Boost for the campaign for the 3rd dose of vaccine, which had been struggling to gain momentum until then. On Tuesday, November 9, during his speech, Emmanuel Macron announced that as of December 15, eligible French people, namely those over 65 or people with co-morbidities, will have to receive a third dose of vaccine to keep their health pass. Note, however, that the injection of the 3rd dose of vaccine will only be compulsory if a period of six months and five weeks has been passed since the second dose.

And Emmanuel Macron’s speech seems to have had a positive effect on the vaccination. Friday, November 12, Gabriel Attal announced that France had now exceeded 4 million vaccine booster doses. Since the new measures announced Tuesday, November 9 by the Head of State, more than 620,000 appointments have been made on Doctolib. “It is three times more than on the previous week”, confirmed the spokesman of the government. Before adding: “Since Tuesday, the recall campaign has passed two or three higher speeds”.

3rd dose of vaccine: for whom?

People aged 50 to 64 will be affected from December. Until then, the 3rd dose was reserved for a specific audience. As pointed out the ministry of health and solidarity, the booster dose today concerns people most at risk of developing a severe form of Covid-19, namely:

• Residents of EHPADs, USLDs (long-term care units) and independent residences;
• People 65 years of age and over;
• People at very high risk of severe form, from 12 years old;
• People with comorbidity (s), from 12 years old;
• Severely immunocompromised people, from 12 years old;
• Health professionals;
• All employees in the health sector and the medico-social sector;
• All employees in the medical transport sector;
• Home helpers working with vulnerable people;
• Firefighters;
• People around the immunocompromised, only in adults over 18 years old.

As a reminder, immunocompromised people are people:

• who have received an organ or hematopoietic stem cell transplant
• under lymphopenic chemotherapy
• treated with strong immunosuppressive drugs, such as antimetabolites (cellcept, myfortic, mycophenolate mofetil, imurel, azathioprine) and AntiCD20 (rituximab: Mabthera, Rixathon, Truxima)
• chronic dialysis after advice from their attending physician who will decide on the need for appropriate examinations;
• on a case-by-case basis, people on immunosuppressants not falling within the above-mentioned categories or with primary immunodeficiency.
• (since June 18) with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or certain types of lymphoma treated with antiCD20

3rd dose of vaccine and health pass

Until then, the health pass was not – yet – conditioned on the booster dose for those over 65 and the eligible public. Emmanuel Macron’s speech this Tuesday, November 9 is a game-changer. The President of the Republic announced that a third dose would soon be necessary to maintain the validity of the health pass in the over 65s but also people suffering from co-morbidities, those Emmanuel Macron referred to as “the most vulnerable people. more fragile “. The deadline has been set for December 15, 2021 for those who have received their first doses for more than six months.

In anticipation of a potential obligation of the 3rd dose, many French people had made an appointment to be injected with a vaccine booster in the days preceding the presidential announcement. Thus, Doctolib noted Monday, November 8 a “new record day with 98,000 French people having made their vaccination booster appointment” and “six days of waiting on average to have their booster dose” now.

Is generalization of the 3rd dose recommended by experts?

Why is a booster dose recommended? In order to boost immunity and guarantee the highest level of protection against Covid-19. On his site, the Ministry of Health and Solidarity details its recommendations concerning the booster dose against Covid-19. Experts and members of the government also seemed to go in this direction. This Tuesday, November 9, the infectious disease specialist and head of the infectious diseases department at Saint-Antoine Hospital (AP-HP, Paris) Karine Lacombe, guest of the morning of France Inter, affirmed: “It is necessary to generalize the third dose of vaccine to everyone”. For her, in the presidential address tonight, “what would be important would be to have an important gesture in favor of the third dose”. The infectious disease specialist was therefore heard, she who pushed in this direction in view of the “increase throughout France, but really with much less importance than the number of contaminations. [qui] is a positive effect of vaccination, but which is starting to run out of steam “:” It should be generalized to everyone, in all categories of the population, six months after the second dose. “For Karine Lacombe, caregivers and experts call for the generalization of the booster dose of anti-Covid vaccine. In addition, a few days ago, it was the compulsory mask that was making a comeback in schools in 40 departments. The World Health Organization also announced Thursday, November 4 that it now feared a new wave of deaths, at least “half a million by February” 2022. As a reminder: out of about 7.7 million French eligible, only 3.4 were vaccinated for the third time.

3rd dose of vaccine: where to do it, how to make an appointment?

Regarding the places where the booster doses are injected, the Ministry of Health and Solidarity distinguishes two categories. Residents of institutions for the elderly can have their booster dose inoculated at home, at their attending physician (general practitioner or specialist), in the services where you are followed, in a pharmacy, in a nursing or midwifery office. , at their dental surgeon or in a medical biology laboratory. The rest of the public eligible for the booster dose, if they do not reside in an establishment for the elderly, can be vaccinated at a vaccination center, at their attending physician (general practitioner or specialist), at their occupational doctor, at a pharmacy. , in a nursing or midwife’s office, in the hospital services where he is followed, in his dental surgeon or in a medical biology laboratory. In the second case, some of these health professionals may agree to come to your home to administer this vaccination. In addition, all the information on the vaccination locations are available on the website. Santé.fr.

Moderna and 3rd dose

At first, the Haute Autorité de Santé had “advised against” the use of the Moderna vaccine for the booster dose. To justify this decision, the HAS had relied on a Scandinavian study highlighting the risk of myocarditis for people under 30 years old. “The announcements from various health authorities have highlighted the unknowns that remain about the dose and target population for the Spikevax recall (Moderna vaccine, Editor’s note) and justify waiting for the European body to provide the details expected in the context of the marketing authorization under consideration “.

After study, the Moderna vaccine finally received the approval of the EMA. “Data showed that a third dose of Spikevax given six to eight months after the second dose resulted in increased antibody levels in adults with declining antibody levels,” said the European Medicines Agency. (EMA) in a communicated.