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

Abstract

The French sanitary pass led to an increase in vaccination rates in France, but local heterogeneities in vaccination rates remain. To identify potential determinants of these heterogeneities and how the French sanitary pass influenced them, we used a data-driven approach on exhaustive nationwide data, gathering 181 socio-economic and geographic factors. Our analysis reveals that, both before and after the introduction of the French sanitary pass, factors with the largest impact are related to poverty, with the most deprived areas having greater than 10 times the odds of being among the districts with lower vaccination rates.

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“…These political divides also influence French public opinion on mandatory vaccination, with partisans of the far left for instance being more likely to oppose mandatory COVID‐19 vaccine than partisans of the centrist party in power (Gagneux‐Brunon et al, 2022). Having voted for an anti‐establishment candidate at the 2017 presidential election was also a predictor of the refusal to get vaccinated, both before and after the vaccine mandate (Débarre et al, 2022). Thus, future studies should take into account these variables as possible moderators of the effectiveness of a prevention campaign based on FVS.…”