Third dose: France defies the WHO and other countries could also rebel

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday asked rich countries that instead of applying third doses of the covid vaccine to their populations, now give them to poor countries to help “immunize by at least 10% of the population of every country in the world. ”

TOMS does not oppose the application of the third doses, but their postponement, at least, until September. Corn the negatives were activated immediately. Today was France the first country developed refusing. And he did it in the mouth of its president, Emmanuel Macron, who said that the French country administers a third dose to “elderly and vulnerable” from September.

“Yes, a third dose will likely be needed, not for everyone right away, but at least for the elderly and the most vulnerable,” Macron said in a video posted to social media. Currently in France a third dose is only recommended for immunocompromised people, like those who have received a transplant.

Germany also said it will administer a booster vaccine against covid to the elderly and vulnerable from September, as well as those who have not received the vaccine with messenger RNA technology, believed to be more efficient.

And soon after, the European Commission itself stressed that administering a third dose is a decision that must be made by member states., which he asked to do so, to follow scientific evidence and more specifically, the recommendations of the European Medicines Authority (EMA).

“The decision to give a booster dose rests with the Member States. As always, we encourage these decisions to be based on scientific evidence and in line with the EMA’s recommendations,” the spokesperson for Community said today. Executive Arianna Podesta.

The current inequality of access to vaccines against Covid-19 means that in low-income countries, only 1.5 doses were given per 100 people, while this figure rises to approximately 100 doses per 100 inhabitants in rich countries.

For example, while Europe is vaccinating more than half of its population and United States about 70%, only 2% of the African population have the full immunization schedule and 5% have received a dose.

“We urgently need to change things: that the majority of vaccines stop going to rich countries to go to poor countries, “WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged yesterday.