[QUOTE=OldFartTom;1634507003]Looking at slightly old data... as at March 6th they had 3.8 Million people who'd received 1 dose and 1.95M at 2 doses in a country of total population 67M
They have really not done well at their vaccine rollout and low % of population vaccinated. When their media started to put pressure on that, their leadership suddenly started publicly questioning the vaccines safety, efficacy etc. Maybe those two things are purely coincidental? maybe not?
It's one explanation anyway ;)[/QUOTE]
Found the article I read about it. [url]https://www.wsj.com/articles/france-once-a-vaccine-pioneer-is-top-skeptic-in-covid-19-pandemic-11610971051[/url]
If you don't have access to the article:
"Survey responses to the question 'If a vaccine for COVID-19 were available, I would get it"
France
strongly disagree - 30%
somewhat disagree - 30%
In rank, it's France, Japan, Italy, Germany, then the U.S. France says it's mostly political in the article.
"Audrey Courreges’s mistrust of new coronavirus vaccines runs so deep that she’s told the nursing home where she works, in the southern French town of Beziers, that she won’t take the vaccinations or administer them.
“I have a brain. I’m capable of forming my own ideas,” the 33-year-old nurse says. “There is some mistrust of the authorities on my part, when you see how the crisis has been managed in France from the start. Nursing home workers like Ms. Courreges, however, are proving to be a significant obstacle in the campaign. She says she isn’t against vaccines generally, but that the messenger RNA technology hasn’t been adequately tested or proven to be effective, despite the fact that regulators around the world have said the opposite.”