Faced with the spread of the Delta variant on French territory, the president of the Hospital Federation of France, Frédéric Valletoux, pleads for compulsory vaccination for all French people. This is the strategy he announced this Sunday, August 1 in an interview that appeared in “Le Journal du dimanche”.

In an interview with the Journal du Dimanche, this Sunday, August 1, 2021, the president of the Hospital Federation of France (FHF), Frédéric Valletoux, expressed his concern about the progression of the Delta variant. ” Everywhere, indicators are on the rise: the epidemic context shows us the limits of intermediate measures ” did he declare. Faced with this observation, the representative of public health establishments pleads for compulsory vaccination for all. 

According to him, the health pass ” worked in the short term, but will not be enough to achieve true collective immunity “. To justify his remarks, he declared that the vaccination obligation would be a ” simple, clear and effective measure, when the implementation of the pass promises to be of rare complexity, especially for hospitals to draw a border between patients for whom it will be requested at entry and others “. For Frédéric Valletoux, “ It’s time to go beyond the incentive to take the last step ».

In his last televised address, on July 12, Emmanuel Macron raised the issue of compulsory vaccination for all French people but preferred to choose the strategy of incentive with the implementation of the health pass in places receiving medication. public. Asked at the 20 pm newspaper on France 2, this Monday August 2, 2021, the Hospital Federation of France explained that compulsory vaccination would avoid being confined again: ” Either the population is fully vaccinated, or we return to a vicious cycle of containment and curfew. And this with all the consequences that we know in terms of health, social matters, economic matters and freedoms. “. If no decision has been taken yet, the government expects to reach its goal of 50 million French people vaccinated or first-vaccinated by the end of August.