The French Covid-19 vaccination policy did not solve vaccination inequities: a nationwide study on 64.5 million people.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To encourage Covid-19 vaccination, France introduced during the Summer 2021 a 'Sanitary Pass', which morphed into a 'Vaccine Pass' in early 2022. While the sanitary pass led to an increase in Covid-19 vaccination rates, spatial heterogeneities in vaccination rates remained. To identify potential determinants of these heterogeneities and evaluate the French sanitary and vaccine passes' efficacies in reducing them, we used a data-driven approach on exhaustive nationwide data, gathering 141 socio-economic, political and geographic indicators.

Methods

We considered the association between vaccination rates and each indicator at different time points: before the sanitary pass announcement (week 2021-W27), before the sanitary pass came into force (week 2021-W31) and 1 m

SUBMITTER: Debarre F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9494411 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature