If recently you’ve been successful in securing a slot for an anti-covid vaccine, your second dose will logically fall during the month of July. It is generally a month dedicated to summer vacation for many French people. For the two messenger RNA vaccines (Pfizer & Moderna), the health authorities recommend six weeks between the first and second injection. For vaccines with viral vectors (Jenssen & AstraZeneca), a twelve week waiting period must be applied between the two doses. However, the six weeks are a recommendation of the government and not of the laboratories. “As of April 14, for all the first injections, we will offer a reminder at 42 days instead of the current 28”, explained Olivier Véran in April, in the Sunday Journal.

In principle, yes. For logistical reasons, changing the vaccination center can complicate the management of doses in the different vaccination centers. Since indeed, if the appointment for the second dose is automatically prescribed in the same center, the reason is not trivial. “It is a solution which guarantees the second injection, secures, organizes, simplifies and streamlines the vaccination course for the person concerned”, warned the Hauts-de-France Regional Health Agency (ARS) to Courrier Picard. But the health authorities are in the process of adapting (again) their vaccination schedule and are now thinking about a “Flexibilization of the interval between two doses”. A strategic turnaround to avoid discouraging the French who do not wish to adapt the holidays according to the injections. Thus, Olivier Véran evoked this Wednesday on the set of TF1, the implementation from this Thursday, June 3, or the next few days, “ a derogatory measure “, to allow French people who have already received a dose of vaccine to postpone the second injection.

However, the modalities of this new organization remain unclear for the moment. A detailed government plan should be available soon.

Health Minister considering lead, HuffingtonPost says “To send additional bottles to tourist places. Discussions are currently underway with the regional health agencies (ARS) concerned to “anticipate population movements” with staff and “imagine forms of vaccination that are a little ‘boosted’ in tourist areas”.

Until now, only adolescents close to immunocompromised people with comorbidities were eligible for vaccination against Covid-19 in France. But on Wednesday, June 2, the President of the Republic announced that French people aged 12-17 will become eligible for vaccination from June 15. “The conditions of organization, consent and good information will be specified in the coming days”, he said.

Adolescents will only be able to receive the German-American Pfizer-BioNTech serum. This decision follows the approval given last Friday by the European Medicines Agency for the use of this vaccine for this age group. Obviously, the parents will have to show their consent and the children will volunteer, in any case it will be compulsory.

For the simple reason that children transmit the virus. “Children develop very few serious forms of the disease […] but they are carriers and they transmit. It is less to protect children, but it is to protect others. This is called the “altruistic” effect “, explains Prof. Rémi Salomon on RMC.

According to the Phase 3 clinical trials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which involved 2.260 adolescents in the United States, the results are reassuring for this segment of the population. “They demonstrated 100% efficiency and robust antibody responses”, said Albert Bourla, CEO of the group behind the vaccine.