2024-03-04 07:00:27
If the Covid-19 epidemic now seems a distant memory, vaccination of the most vulnerable people nevertheless remains essential. This is what a recent opinion from the High Authority of Health suggests in which it confirms the interest in maintaining a vaccination campaign against Covid-19 for populations at risk (people aged 80 and over, residents of EHPAD/long-term care units and immunocompromised people, regardless of their age). We take stock.
HAS validates the dates of the spring anti-Covid-19 vaccination campaign
The Covid-19 epidemic now seems a distant memory, but vaccination of the most vulnerable people nevertheless remains essential. After having been contacted on the question by the General Directorate of Health, the High Authority of Health delivers its opinion on the proposed dates for the spring vaccination campaign against Covid-19 for populations at risk. To do this, the agency took several parameters into consideration, including:
The impossibility of predicting the dates of epidemiological waves of Covid-19. Low coverage (around a third) at the beginning of January among people aged 80 and over.
This low coverage is all the more difficult to explain as the autumn campaign against Covid-19 has been open since September 18 (one month before the anti-flu vaccination campaign) and is scheduled to end at the end of February. , i.e. one month after the initially planned date.
According to the agency, the campaign schedule proposed from April 15 to June 16, 2024 thus seems suitable for reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with Covid-19.
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A vaccination campaign aimed at populations at risk
These vaccination recommendations from the High Authority for Health concern populations at riskto know :
People aged 80 and over. Residents of EHPADs and long-term care units. Immunocompromised people regardless of their age.
Indeed, in these fragile people, immune protection declines more quickly. It is therefore necessary to vaccinate them more often than the general population. According to the High Authority for Health, this campaign should make it possible to reduce the number of deaths and prevent the occurrence of serious forms linked to Covid-19.
To know ! Last year, the High Authority had already recommended spring vaccination for people aged 80 and over and immunocompromised people.
Note that the minimum time to be respected between two vaccination boosters is three months for people aged 80 and over, residents in EHPADs or long-term care units and immunocompromised people.
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The possibility of an extension of the anti-Covid-19 vaccination campaign
To date, it is impossible to predict in advance the occurrence of a new epidemic wave of Covid-19 as well as its intensity and dangerousness. The impact it could have on vulnerable subjects and populations at risk also remains unknown.
Faced with the risk of new, more virulent variants emerging leading to a drop in immunity against serious forms and death, the High Authority for Health has developed a vaccination strategy to protect people whose risk of hospitalization and death is important. The agency therefore recommends plan an extension of this vaccination campaign. If the epidemiological situation justifies it, it could therefore continue until July 15, 2024 or start earlier in the fall.
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Déborah L., Doctor in Pharmacy
Sources
– Opinion No. 2024.001/AC/SESPEV of February 8, 2024 from the college of the High Authority of Health relating to the launch date of the vaccination campaign in spring 2024 against Covid-19.www.has-sante.fr. Accessed February 21, 2024.
– Covid: HAS recommends a vaccination campaign from mid-April for those aged 80 and over. Accessed February 21, 2024.
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