In rejoicing, on December 21, to see the milestone of 20 million recalls of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine soon to be crossed, did Olivier Véran already have in mind the date of a possible fourth dose?
Since the publication of a tweet from Benjamin Amar, spokesperson for the CGT 94 and member of the national leadership of the union, some Internet users fear in any case that the Minister of Health has already provided for the administration of this ( probable) new dose in summer 2022.
When you take your 3rd dose in December, the vaccination certificate tells you an expiration date in July 2022.
The 4th dose is therefore already set in practice. 4 doses in one year. Quiet and without pressure. Isn’t there a little problem there?– Benjamin Amar (@ benjaminamar4) December 19, 2021
“When you take your 3rd dose in December, the vaccination certificate tells you an expiration date in July 2022. The 4th dose is therefore already set in practice. 4 doses in one year. Quiet and without pressure. Isn’t there a little problem there? “, Indeed affirms the viral tweet of the trade unionist. His vaccination certificate would expire more precisely on July 13, 2022, judging by the screenshot posted by Benjamin Amar after the fact, in response to questions from other Twitter users.
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Joined by 20 minutes, Benjamin Amar details his vaccination course: “I had the Covid-19 in a serious form at the end of March, the beginning of April 2020, then I made my first dose in May 2021. On December 11, I did my second dose. “
This explains why his vaccine certificate bears the mention “vaccine 2 out of 2” and not “vaccine 3 out of 3”: as the Public Service website explains, a person infected with Covid-19 – whether before vaccination or after the first dose – may receive their second dose, considered a booster dose (thus equivalent to the third dose in uninfected people) five months after infection or the first dose.
“Since my tweet, I have dug all this a bit and I intend to call Medicare directly. But from what I could see from the nursing staff I interviewed, it would be a failure. [du certificat vaccinal], which would not take into account the fact that I had Covid-19 and which therefore considers the second dose to be a classic second dose. The only people to see an expiration date appear on their booster dose have also had Covid-19, ”continues Benjamin Amar.
No “expiration date” on the booster dose, according to the Ministry of Health
As we have also seen, only people who have contracted Covid-19, and therefore have taken two doses, see an expiration date appear on their digital certificate. Conversely, a person who has not contracted Covid-19 but is up to date with his booster dose sees in his certificate the mention “vaccine 3 out of 3” without it having any expiration date.
Contacted by 20 minutes, the Ministry of Health confirms that “the expiration date appears only for people in [dose] 2/2 or in 1/1 ”. “The booster dose is currently valid sine die, so there is no expiration date on this dose. The latest version of the TousAntiCovid app takes better account of the case of immunocompromised people and people who may have had their booster dose much earlier. The update of the application makes it possible to remove the eligibility dates for the recall and the expiration of the 3/3 doses ”, he continues.
In response to the concerns of people seeing an expiration date appear despite their booster dose, the Ministry of Health indicates the procedure to be followed to avoid any unjustified deactivation of the health pass: “A 2/2 dose may, for some people, be the result of a Covid infection + a dose (= a complete vaccination schedule) + a booster dose. On February 1 and [avec] the new European codification of boosters, the person will be able to return to attestation-vaccin.ameli.fr or to a vaccination center or to health personnel ”to regularize their certificate.