The day following the hearing of Olivier Véran, Minister of Health, on the government management of the health crisis before the senators, the Academy of Medicine breaks a taboo. In one communicated titled “Daring to take the plunge”, published this Tuesday, the learned society asks that “the doctrine” of the vaccine pass is “clearly exposed and sincerely defended as a vaccine obligation, not disguised, like the other vaccine obligations currently in force “.
The day before, the senator (PS) of Paris Bernard Jomier had precisely regretted “a disguised form” of the vaccine obligation, through the past. “The ministers do not have to disguise their decision”, he remarked, questioning the minister: “Don’t you regret the time lost, is it not time to be frank direct and to lay down the principle of the vaccine obligation which, if it will never convince the small minority of antivax, makes that a certain number of French take the plunge and be vaccinated? “
This Tuesday, in the Assembly, he persisted: the elected official, a doctor by profession, once more pleaded for “the undisguised universal vaccination obligation”.
On the same day, the National Academy of Medicine gave this idea a little more credit. “Faced with a deadly epidemic that cannot be controlled by any other means, compulsory vaccination is a civic duty and not a threat of punishment: announced as a general mobilization once morest a common enemy, SARS-CoV-2, it should lead to membership a very large majority of French people, ”she wrote in her press release.
It even goes further, by submitting the idea of requiring the health pass at workplaces, as in Germany. “The eligibility of the vaccination pass must be extended to all meeting places (work, leisure, shops, public transport), without forgetting people working at home with elderly and / or vulnerable people (housekeepers, family helpers). …), Any derogation from the principle of universality limiting its scope and reducing its effectiveness. “
Last August, the academies of medicine, science and pharmacy had already split of a press release to defend vaccination, by denouncing “fake news” around messenger RNA.
