Due to the deterioration of health, a booster of vaccine against the coronavirus for all adults could be considered, estimated the Orientation Council of the vaccine strategy (COSV), an advisory body created by the government on the occasion of the pandemic. , this Monday.
“The data from the modeling of the epidemic encourage us to consider” the injection of a booster dose to “the entire adult population 6 months after” the vaccination, “in order to curb the epidemic and reduce the number of serious forms ”, writes this instance in an opinion dated Friday.
An enlargement to be studied soon
“To restore vaccine efficacy to levels allowing the control of the epidemic, the generalization of the booster dose to the entire adult population could be an effective approach”, continues the COSV, chaired by the immunologist Alain Fischer. In France, the booster dose (which is most often a third dose) currently only concerns people over 65 and people at risk of severe forms of the disease (as well as caregivers).
On November 9, President Emmanuel Macron announced that the booster dose would be offered to 50-64 year olds from December 1, without even waiting for the opinion of the High Authority for Health (HAS), responsible for guiding the executive on these matters. On Friday, the HAS recommended injecting this booster dose from the age of 40. “The extension of the recall to under 50s will be studied soon,” said in the wake of the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, on Twitter.
“This is the meaning of history”
The current acceleration of the epidemic, combined with the decline in vaccine effectiveness over time, is likely to lead to “a significant increase in the number of daily admissions to hospital and critical care”, underlines the Council. orientation of the vaccination strategy.
“Even if the risk of serious forms remains much higher for unvaccinated people (…), the absolute number of vaccinated people hospitalized in conventional care or in critical care is far from being negligible”, he continues to justify the principle. of a reminder. “I would not be surprised that we are gradually moving towards vaccine booster shots for all adults who have been vaccinated, that’s the meaning of the story,” Emmanuel Macron estimated on Friday on the sidelines of a trip to the North.
