Covid, whooping cough, flu: here is the 2022 vaccination calendar and its new recommendations

The Ministry of Health published this Monday, April 25 the new vaccination schedule. This brings together all the vaccination recommendations in force and the time at which the vaccine is recommended. With some new additions, this is an opportunity to take stock and ask yourself if you are up to date.

Difficult to find your way around vaccines? The Ministry of Health published this Monday, April 25 the new vaccination schedule for 2022. If you are not sure where you are with your injections, this is an opportunity to take stock and find out if you are up to date. or if a recall is necessary or recommended.

As reminded the Ministry of Health, “the vaccination schedule sets the vaccinations applicable to people residing in France according to their age, issues “general” vaccination recommendations and “specific” vaccination recommendations.

New recommendations

Meningococcus

In this new calendar, the Ministry of Health issues new recommendations. They concern the vaccine once morest meningococcal B, which is therefore dnow “recommended for all infants from 2 months to 2 years of age”.

whooping cough

“Vaccination once morest whooping cough is recommended for pregnant women from the second trimester of pregnancy, favoring the period between 20 and 36 weeks of amenorrhea (absence of periods), in order to increase the transfer of maternal antibodies and to ensure optimal protection of the newborn”, now recommends the ministry.

Flu

New also on the side of the flu vaccine, especially for professionals. Indeed, from this year, the HAS now also recommends “in professionals occupationally exposed to swine and avian influenza viruses.”

Covid vaccine

The Ministry of Health takes care to specify that this calendar “does not detail the vaccinations once morest Covid-19 which appear on the website of the Ministry of Health in the COVID-19 vaccination sectionand on the space reserved for health professionals on the site vaccination info services.”

As a reminder, to date, all people over the age of 5 in France can receive a vaccine once morest Covid, including pregnant women, from the first trimester of their pregnancy.

As for the booster dose, it “concerns all persons aged 18 and over and having a complete initial vaccination schedule”. Since April 7, all persons over 60 are also eligible to a second reminder.

Vaccination obligations

Since 2018, eight vaccinations have been considered compulsory in France, bringing the total number of compulsory vaccinations to 11.

These are vaccinations once morest

• whooping cough,
• invasive Haemophilus influenzae type B infections,
• hepatitis B,
• pneumococcal infections,
• invasive serogroup C meningococcal infections,
• measles,
• mumps and
• rubella.

It is necessary to add to this list the vaccines which were already compulsory before, namely DTP for diphtheria, tetanus and poliomelyte.

Vaccination of children and teenagers: which vaccine at which age?

To find your way around vaccinations for children and adolescents, the Ministry of Health offers two tables that tell you at what age it is recommended to perform the injections. (You can Click on images to enlarge them).