Vaccination against Covid-19: is France really “a little below” the European average, … – Franceinfo

As we approach the milestone of 50 million people who have received at least one dose, Martine Aubry, the socialist mayor of Lille, judged Wednesday September 1 on franceinfo that France was a little behind compared to its European neighbors on vaccination against Covid-19. She said so, with figures to back it up: “We are more or less the European average. I know the figures well, it is 70% who are fully vaccinated in Europe. We are 65% who have a vaccination and 60% who have both. We are a little bit below, but I’m not going to fuss over it “, she said on franceinfo. A false statement, the True from False cell explains to you.

Martine Aubry, who says yet “to know well” numbers, make a mistake by mixing up several ways of counting. The 70% vaccination within the EU that the mayor of Lille evokes was indeed announced at the start of the week but Martine Aubry has visibly forgotten an important detail: this rate of 70% only concerns the adult population (the over 18 years old).

If we look at vaccination in France in the same category, we are 80% of French adults fully vaccinated, according to the Ministry of Health, ie 10 points more than the European average.

Clearly, Martine Aubry got tangled in giving the vaccination rate in the general population, a figure necessarily lower than the vaccination rate on a smaller part of the population, adults.

Contrary to what Martine Aubry says, France is also rather in the high average for vaccination within the European Union. According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, which regularly updates vaccination data in Europe, France is 8th out of 27 for vaccination in the adult population.

On the podium, we find in order: Malta, Ireland and Denmark. Spain is ahead of us, Germany and Italy behind. Finally, Bulgaria is last with less than one in four adults fully vaccinated.