Tuesday, in a box of the vaccination center installed since January 4 at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes – F. Binacchi / ANP / 20 Minutes
- The expansion of the vaccination campaign to over 50s promised by Mayor LR David Lisnard, and which had aroused strong criticism from the Minister of Health last week, is confirmed in Cannes.
- “We have already made such good progress that we are able to expand the campaign without penalizing anyone,” promises Dominique Aude-Lasset, coordinator of the two vaccination centers open in Cannes.
In one of the multipurpose rooms of the Palais des Festivals, transformed since January 4 into an anti-Covid-19 vaccination factory, Pascale waited patiently for her turn on Tuesday morning. Sitting on a chair in the queue stamped “Pfizer”, this 53-year-old Cannes woman was delighted to have “already the right to a dose”. Her husband who accompanied her “is 54 years old and has a small comorbidity” but she “is in great shape”.
Has the expansion of the campaign promised by Mayor LR David Lisnard, which sparked strong criticism from the Minister of Health last week, already started on the Croisette? Information taken, “this lady will have to go see the doctor” regulator, “there must have been an error”, explains Dominique Aude-Lasset, deputy general manager of the services of the town hall and coordinator of the two centers open in the city.
But the possibility for all Cannes residents over 50 to benefit from a vaccine is well planned for April 8, announces the town hall in 20 minutes. “We are already at 2,000 meetings scheduled for these audiences,” she says. And the town hall to specify further, to cut short any other controversy: “We still keep slots for them. priority audiences who continue to call ”.
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“There are still around 20 a day. Some were waiting for feedback from friends or neighbors to come forward on our registration platform. But we have already made such progress that we are able to expand the campaign without penalizing anyone, ”promises Dominique Aude-Lasset.
According to information sent Monday by the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes on the basis of the Ameli software, with 74% of vaccination for all 70 years and over, “Cannes is ranked first city of the department, while the national average is 46% ”, welcomes the city. To date, 4,830 Cannes residents have already received two doses and 7,628 are awaiting the second.
Catherine and Charles, 79 and 88, came on Tuesday to receive their last injection. “It’s great that Cannes is going so fast,” they advance in chorus, one shoulder uncovered. We hope that our younger relatives will soon have an appointment. This is the only way we can quickly find a normal life. “
“Much better visibility on deliveries”
Behind one of the five boxes where these two retirees had met, in an adjacent room of the vaccination center of the Palais des Congrès de la Croisette, doses had yet to arrive on Tuesday. Others were also stored this Wednesday morning. In a locked fridge, 2,610 of the Pfizer / BioNtech formula and 1,490 Moderna “will be sold by Tuesday”, specifies Dominique Aude-Lasset.
“We can also expand vaccination because for a few days now, we have had much better visibility on deliveries,” says the coordinator of the centers, who was able to reopen that of the palace of victories, to the west of the city, since this Wednesday, thanks to these new arrivals.
“Between April 6 and May 6, we already know that we will have 12,000 Pfizer and 3,000 Moderna more,” she continues. These are the doses that will be used, among others, for those 50 and over. And it is all the more important to start quickly as it is today younger people who find themselves in intensive care. “
Twenty-eight town hall employees mobilized in vaccinodromes
Last week, the prospect of this enlargement had made Olivier Véran jump. “The vaccination of 50 years and over without comorbidity will not be done until it has been decided at the national level and therefore not until we have not protected all the fragile and vulnerable people” had ruled the Minister of Health. He called on “elected officials to fight to find, at home if necessary, the people to be protected as a priority.”
“If we are able [d’ouvrir la prise de rendez-vous pour les plus de 50 ans aujourd’hui], it is because our vaccinodromes have been operational since January 4, when the government claimed that they were not useful, and that we are mobilizing a large number of municipal staff instead of the State, ”he told him dryly. retorted Mayor David Lisnard. To run its two centers, the town hall redispatched 28 of its administrative staff and called on retired nurses and doctors.