Moderna messenger RNA vaccine is soon available from general practitioners

It will soon be possible to inject Moderna into her GP. After the first trial in Moselle and Alsace, the Mersal RNA vaccine, the same technology as the Pfizer vaccine, will soon reach city doctors across the country. He reveals France Inter This wednesday. Liberal pharmacists and nurses will also get it.

So far, Moderna has been reserved for vaccination centers, and city health professionals have only been able to inject AstraZeneca, which faces mistrust due to the very rare cases of thrombosis it causes.

40,000 doses per week in the regions affected by the variants, then arriving everywhere in France

According to France Inter, the Moderna vaccine will be distributed first in the regions where the variants are most commonly circulated: 40,000 doses per week It will be distributed there For three weeks. Then the vaccine It will arrive in large june all over the countryIn several hundreds of thousands of doses.

A vaccine that is easy to store

Moderna vaccine is also Easier to hold, This makes it easier to use: Once thawed, it can be stored at a temperature between 2 and 8 degrees for 30 days, while the Pfizer can be kept at temperature for 5 days after thawing.

Good news for general practitioners

“It’s good news,” Cheer up on Wednesday this day franceinfo Jacques Battistone, general practitioner of Caen and president of the Syndicate of General Practitioners at MG France.

“We have been calling for messenger RNA vaccines in town for several months.”, Who is the “These are the vaccines most requested by our patients”, Remember.

Like many of his colleagues, the doctor said that some of his patients It is preferable to do without a second injection AstraZeneca vaccine: “Of the ten appointments for a second dose on Thursday, three were canceled.”, He says.