DIRECT. Coronavirus in France: Macron wants to reassure about Christmas and Omicron – Linternaute.com

During his hearing in the Senate, the President of the Scientific Council also praised the benefits of vaccination against Covid-19 and the vaccination booster: “I sometimes hear that we are faced with a failure of the vaccination”, is he insurgent. “The answer is no! Not at all”. Jean-François Delfraissy maintained that “vaccination is a success for the prevention of severe forms and serious forms”, recalling that “the risk of ending up in intensive care and dying is about 8 times higher in a person not vaccinated by compared to a vaccinated “. Thus, without vaccination, the indicators would be “much higher”.

For him, finally, the vaccine booster is necessary, the “level of protection” offered by the vaccination being lost “with time”: “From 5-6 months, one sees a progressive decrease of the effectiveness on the occurrence severe and serious forms “. Above all, “the immunological response is immediately multiplied by 7 to 10” after the booster: “The individual efficacy is observed after one week and there is protection of the order of 90% on severe forms and forms serious, but also on protection against transmission of the order of 70 to 80% “, he praised

During his hearing in the Senate, Jean-François Delfraissy praised the success of vaccination among adolescents, who are 80% vaccinated. Thanks to this high rate, the virus circulates much less in middle and high schools.

Regarding the Moderna vaccine, Jean-François Delfraissy assured that there was “no fear to be”. In addition, “he will have enough vaccine doses if we use the two doses, Pfizer and Moderna.”

On LCI, Professor Gilles Pialoux expressed his concern about the end of year celebrations: he particularly fears that the public hospital is under high tension at Christmas time. Calling for a “collective responsibility” of the French, he notably advocated on the continuous news channel that “everyone, on Christmas Day, take a test and respect the ventilation. You should not sit with the elderly either. or immunocompromised “.

With France Bleu Pays d’Auvergne, the President of the Republic wanted to be reassuring about the Omicron variant. For the Head of State, “the WHO rather had reassuring news yesterday, it seems that it is not more worrying than what was said”. Moreover, if “we were afraid of the new variant, I would remind you that the 5th wave is the Delta variant”, he stressed, adding further that “we must fight in a proportionate way, and we have more weapons than a year ago, because 90% of people are vaccinated “.

On LCI, Professor Gilles Pialoux lambasted the “blissful reassurance (sic)” of certain specialists “:” There is no decline [de la cinquième vague de l’épidémie de Covid-19 en France], there is just a slowdown in the increase, “he argued in particular.” We, for Christmas and New Year’s Day at the public hospital, our concern is to have nurses in opposite the beds […]. We are extremely worried, “he alerted.

On LCI, Professor Gilles Pialoux detailed the profiles he had observed in intensive care: if the unvaccinated have long been legion, they are now joined by people who completed their vaccination schedule five to six months ago. . “In the field, we have the impression that the profile of the patients is a little different. At the beginning, it was a caricature of the unvaccinated. Now there are people who are at a distance from the vaccination. This means that ‘ they left five or six months after their second dose and have not received their booster. And of course, some patients have escaped the vaccine because they are immunocompromised or transplanted, “explained the head of the infectious diseases department and tropical plants at Tenon hospital (Paris).

At the microphone of LCI, Gilles Pialoux felt that a vaccination obligation would be useful. For him, if the attempt to “try to recover the 6 million people eligible for vaccination who have so far received no dose” fails and “the vaccination of children [qui] will, also, inevitably happen “does not bear fruit,” we will have to discuss the vaccination obligation, but not necessarily for the whole of France. It can also be by profession and be extended to all those in contact with the public. The vaccination obligation is doable, ”he concluded.

As a reminder, the government is still opposed to the idea of ​​compulsory vaccination.

On Franceinfo, Professor Anne-Claude Crémieux gave several tips for spending the most serene Christmas holidays possible. She advised in particular to make his “booster dose fifteen days before Christmas to be able to benefit from the maximum dose” and to put in place “the barrier measures, that is to say put on the masks as much as possible, ventilate as much as possible. possible – even a half-open window is enough “. “Try not to take risks the week before” and “get tested if you have any doubts” were also part of his advice.