Covid vaccination: 1.3 million French people have made an appointment on Doctolib in a few hours

Emmanuel Macron’s speech has obviously motivated the French to be vaccinated: in less than 14 hours, 1.3 million citizens made their appointment on Doctolib.It must be said that by fall 2021, vaccinated people will have more facilities to access socio-cultural places and events than those that are not.

The firm announcements of Emmanuel Macron from July 12, 2021 in the evening, concerning the health pass, obviously had a fairly strong effect on the French and French who are not yet vaccinated.

The French platform Doctolib, which allows you to make medical meetings, has experienced a huge increase in the number of connections: "There were 7.5 million connections in a few minutes," reported Stanislas Niox-Chateau, the CEOde Doctolib, during a press conference the next day, which Numerama attended.

Even more impressive: 926,000 people have made an appointment to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 the evening of the announcements of the President of the Republic, and 350,000 people again the next morning.This means that in around 14 hours, 1.3 million French people and French decided to be vaccinated.Obviously, a few citizens had probably made an appointment before the speech, but the number is anecdotal compared to the record crowd observed after 20 hours.There are also many of them going through the site quickly my dose, developed by Guillaume Rozier and his teams.

"This is five times more than last week," said Stanislas Niox-Chateau, who stressed that Doctolib still knew, on the morning of July 13, "between 4,000 and 5,000 appointments per minute".On the graph made by the French platform and accessible online on the official website, we see how the bar that corresponds to the meetings made on July 12 is large compared to those of the previous days.

Covid vaccination statistics on Doctolib

Source : Doctolib

"We sprayed records: it's 2 times more than the last May 11 record," confirmed the entrepreneur.The meetings that have been made are "on average with 11 days of delay," he said, which means that the first doses will be injected within less than two weeks.On average, the appointments for a second dose are taken within four weeks, which means that these French and French will be vaccinated entirely by the end of August.

In terms of age groups, two-thirds of citizens who have made an appointment on July 12, 2021 are under 35: even a big thrust is observed among those under 18, which represent 20 % of the total.The over 60s on the other hand, which are most at risk of developing serious forms of the disease, are only 3.5 %.

The distribution of appointments for a vaccine on July 12, 2021 according to the ages

Source : Doctolib

How vaccination becomes essential without being officially compulsory

This is rather "good", since Emmanuel Macron announced that PCR tests would become paying from fall in France.This decision is likely to greatly change the way in which the French consider the famous health pass, which it will be compulsory to present in many socio-cultural places this summer.

From July 21, the health pass will be requested in the following places for people over the age of twelve:

In early August, this document will be required in many other places:

It is true that a health pass is not necessarily a vaccination certificate: it can also be a recent negative PCR test.But in fact, if the PCR tests become paying (as is already the case in other neighboring countries, which ask to pay several dozen euros to each test), while vaccination is free and less time -consuming,There will be less and less interest in not being vaccinated in France.

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