Epidemic Log
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Christian Lehmann is a doctor and writer. For “Liberation”, he keeps the regular chronicle of a society crossed by the coronavirus.
There is currently a lot of talk about vaccination against Covid, when, in fact, it is almost at a standstill. A recent review of the scientific literature published in The Lancet stir the antivax medium. It would reveal that a history of Covid infection would confer a certain immunity against the virus, some wanting to read there a uselessness of vaccination. At the same time, the High Authority for Health is opening a “public consultation on the obligations and vaccination recommendations of professionals for DTP, hepatitis B, Covid-19”, by publishing for opinion provisional recommendations that seem to open the way to a possible lifting of the obligation to vaccinate against Covid among healthcare professionals, “in the actual context” less viral circulation.
Mahmoud Zureik, professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, is director of Epi-Phare, a public epidemiological surveillance structure.