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 month after (week 2021-W35) and the equivalent dates for the vaccine pass (weeks 2021-W49, 2022-W03 and 2022-W07).
Results
The indicators most associated with vaccination rates were the share of local income coming from unemployment benefits, overcrowded households rate, immigrants rate and vote for an ‘anti-establishment’ candidate at the 2017 Presidential election. These associations increase over time. Consequently, living in a district below the median of such indicator decreases the probability to be vaccinated by about 30% at the end of the studied period, and this probability gradually decreases by deciles of these indicators.
Conclusions
Our analysis reveals that factors related to poverty, immigration and trust in the government are strong determinants of vaccination rate, and that vaccination inequities tended to increase after the introduction of the French sanitary and vaccination passes.
Depuis une dizaine d’années, des études internationales désignent régulièrement la France comme épicentre du vaccino-scepticisme. Les débats publics autour de la campagne vaccinale envisagée à l’échelle nationale pour contrer la pandémie de Covid-19 ont confirmé les rapports particuliers de la nation de Pasteur avec les vaccins, ou plus précisément avec la politique vaccinale. Cet article explore les racines de cette singularité française en décrivant ses fondements historiques, ses réseaux d’influence et ses causes systémiques pour apporter des clés de compréhension de ses variations géographiques.
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