A nurse prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the at the Champmaillot nursing home in Dijon, central France, on Dec. 27. (Philippe Desmazes/Pool Photo via AP)
PARIS (AFP) As the French government seeks to ramp up its lagging Covid-19 vaccination campaign, it faces a tricky challenge: convincing all doctors to back the jabs, even though some share the same hesitations as the general population.
Despite France’s record of pioneering vaccine work, surveys show it has become one of the most skeptical countries in the world after the emergence of a powerful “anti-vax” movement that has pushed conspiracy theories.
Health body files complaint against 6 doctors over Covid-19 claims
By Agencies - RFI
AP - Francois Mori
The French National Council of the Order of Physicians (CNOM) has filed a complaint against six healthcare professionals, including Professor Didier Raoult, for their controversial remarks on the Covid-19 epidemic, the medical press agency APMNews reported on Monday.
The complaint was filed in early December for making controversial statements related to the epidemic in public.
Raoult, an advocate of the use of the controversial drug hydroxychloroquine, is at the heart of a controversy for having curtailed the authorities management of the crisis as well as conflicts of interest in international research into the treatment of Covid-19.