Several political groups, including La France insoumise and the National Rally, have recently spoken out in favor of the reinstatement of non-vaccinated health professionals. In a press release published on Tuesday on this question, the National Academy of Medicine in turn takes a position and wishes to make known its “firm opposition”.
Without taking into consideration the explosion of side effects of the anti-Covid vaccination identified by pharmacovigilance, the lack of efficacy of the product on contamination such as the transmission of the virus, or even the level of protection against visibly serious forms relative conferred by the injection, as evidenced by the differential in deaths between non-vaccinated and vaccinated in the hospital, the institution considers that “any refusal to be vaccinated (…) is incompatible with the profession of caregiver” . It begins, in fact, by recalling its marked support for vaccination and its obligation for health personnel, judging that “vaccination hesitation [est] ethically unacceptable in their profession“.
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She also maintains that “the decline in the effectiveness of vaccines in preventing infection and contagion by new variants of SARS-CoV-2 cannot justify the reintegration of the unvaccinated: current vaccines retain residual effectiveness against the transmission , which must be supplemented by strict respect for barrier gestures in healthcare settings”.
“There is no argument to scientifically validate the refusal to be vaccinated”
“None of the rehashed arguments (lack of efficacy, adverse effects, lack of hindsight, etc…) can scientifically validate the refusal to be vaccinated, the real medical contraindications to vaccination being very rare”, continues the Academy of Medicine. Finally, “vaccination remains very effective against the different variants and sub-variants to protect against severe forms of Covid-19, it makes it possible to make the recognition of serious Covid-19 as an occupational disease exceptional in vaccinated caregivers. “, she notes.
Another argument put forward by the Academy of Medicine: “The reintegration of unvaccinated health professionals within the healthcare team would compromise the climate of trust and the cohesion which must exist between its members and with the patients”. In addition, “it would endanger the fragile patients”, she adds.
0.3% of professionals
The Academy therefore expresses “its firm opposition to a reversal” which would concern only 0.3% of hospital professionals, caregivers and non-caregivers, according to a figure attributed to the French Hospital Federation.
The executed seems slightly inclined to change his tune in favor of the debate on his so-called watch and health security bill. After declaring to the National Assembly that the subject was still “not topical”, the Minister of Health, François Braun, finally announced last week in the Senate the referral to several authorities on this “thorny subject”. .
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