Covid: a mass vaccination campaign in preparation in France

Since Pfizer and BioNTech revealed very encouraging preliminary results for their Covid vaccine last Monday, states have been at the starting blocks to immunize their populations and France is no exception. In a few weeks the High Authority for Health (HAS) should give its opinion on the priority populations. Once the European Medicines Agency has issued the first conditional marketing authorization, probably later this year, the HAS will say where and how to administer the vaccine. The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, will therefore be able to give the signal to start an extraordinary vaccination campaign, more massive than the one launched when the H1N1 flu shook France in 2009.

“We are preparing to launch a vaccination campaign as soon as possible”, “it is a monumental project”, the minister assured last Thursday. He said he had already bought “50 super-freezers”, “which will be connected to alarms, stored in safe places” store vaccines at -80 ° C.