Halt to the return of caregivers not vaccinated against Covid. As the debate gathered momentum, the government decided on Friday that they would not be reinstated, following a negative opinion from the High Authority for Health.
“The Academy of Medicine, the Scientific Council and the High Authority for Health have a convergent opinion (…) it is negative” and “we follow the opinion of scientists“, announced the Minister of Health François Braun, during a trip to Seine-et-Marne.
“They will not be reinstated“, he then confirmed on CNews.
Health Minister François Braun on the reintegration of non-vaccinated caregivers: “My position, mine and that of the government are clear: we follow the advice of scientists as since the start of the crisis and it is negative” pic.twitter.com/hueGvEpKT1
— CNEWS (@CNEWS) July 22, 2022
Shortly before this announcement, the HAS, whose opinions serve as the basis for public health decisions, said to itself “fin favor of maintaining the obligation to vaccinate against (the) Covid-19“Caregivers.
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The opinion of the HAS was all the more awaited since the parliamentarians had decided on Thursday that a possible reinstatement of the caregivers would be automatic as soon as the authority gave its agreement.
An opinion is in line with other recent positions such as that of the Academy of Medicine.
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Slightly less clear-cut, the Scientific Council, on the verge of dying out after having guided the government’s policies against Covid for more than two years, said Thursday “very reserved” about reinstatement.
Other great scientific figures, not very suspicious of complacency towards movements qualified as “anti-vax”, believe, conversely, that it is time to reintegrate unvaccinated caregivers.
This is the case of epidemiologist Antoine Flahault who ruled on Twitter on Wednesday that “the maintenance of the suspension of unvaccinated caregivers (was) no longer scientifically based” in view of the loss of effectiveness of vaccines .
1/3 – Maintaining the suspension of unvaccinated caregivers is no longer scientifically sound. There is in fact no reason to require the vaccine among caregivers because it does not avoid or sufficiently reduce contamination with the new variants of the #SARSCoV2
— Antoine FLAHAULT (@FLAHAULT) July 20, 2022