2023-09-21 04:33:49
While the country has experienced a rebound in Covid-19 cases in recent weeks, a Dress study shows that while an extreme majority of the population has been vaccinated, a small minority still refuses to protect themselves.
Everyone can see it around them these days. Covid-19 infections have been increasing sharply in recent weeks. A worrying epidemic outbreak for specialists and the government, which, faced with yet another variant, has been led to bring forward the start of the new vaccination campaign to October 2. This Wednesday, the Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau did not want “use the “strategy of fear”.» «For Covid, as for the rest, our only strategy is transparency and trust in science. Neither guilt nor constraint“, stipulated the member of the government. Two and a half years after Mauricette’s first injection in December 2020, where is the process in France? An EpiCov study for Dress, published this Thursday, provides some answers.
From a fairly general point of view, the measures and constraints activated by the executive several months ago, such as the vaccination pass, have, to say the least, worked: 83% of French people 18 years and over claim to have a complete vaccination schedule, namely three doses or more, or two doses and an infection or two doses but with a Janssen vaccine. A rate which rises to 93% for people who have received only one dose of vaccine. Although vaccination coverage is almost complete, a small minority of French people (7%) continue, against all odds, to refuse any injection. So who are these refractory people? Are there typical profiles?
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The process having made almost no progress since the end of last year, the survey carried out in autumn 2022 among 85,000 French people therefore makes it possible to measure in 2023 “disparities in vaccination use.» First observation: getting vaccinated is a socially marked process. In other words, the 10% of people with the highest standard of living benefit more often from a complete vaccination schedule than the lowest 10%. While vaccination was fully covered by Health Insurance, the difference between the rates of these two groups is 20 points. Same social difference between, on the one hand, executives and higher intellectual professions and workers, on the other hand, of 11 points.
Variations according to migratory origin
Another lesson from the study is the variations in vaccination linked to migratory origin. Concretely, immigrants from outside the European Union and their descendants are less likely to have a complete vaccination schedule than people who have no foreign affiliation. On this criterion, the gap is 13 points with the first and 17 points with the second. The investigation also shows that “these immigrants and descendants of immigrants, often from Africa, were more often contaminated by the virus.» And to underline a paradox: “While these populations were more frequently exposed to the disease at the start of the epidemic, they ultimately protected themselves less often by vaccination.”
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Within this refractory community, however, we must not neglect the weight of distrust towards government and scientific authorities to explain this refusal of the serum. The epidemic and the accompanying vaccination had fueled a number of networks on the fringes of society, even conspiratorial. Among the people who declared, in the summer of 2021, that they did not have at all confidence in the government’s action to counter and manage the waves, 71% had a complete vaccination schedule. A figure which rose to 90% among respondents who let the executive be in charge. The gap is 30 points when it comes to trust in scientists. A distrust which is greater among the less well-off categories of the population.
Last parameter to take into account, that of discrimination. 84% of people who have not undergone one have a complete vaccination course, compared to 77% among those who have sometimes been in such situations. This is also the case for 69% of respondents who have often been confronted with it. Signs of hope nevertheless: the progression of vaccination between summer 2021 and autumn 2022 was greater among the most disadvantaged populations, which led to a reduction in rate differences. Among French people who were not yet vaccinated in the summer of 2021, 94% of people who said they intended to be vaccinated actually received at least one dose of vaccine…even though this is also the case 53% of those who had no intention of doing so.
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