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Vaccine-wary France turns to citizens’ panel to boost trust in COVID-19 shots

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Barbara CasassusScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.All across Europe, coronavirus vaccines are in scarce supply.

But in France, they are also surprisingly unwanted: Recent polls suggest just 57% of the country intends to get vaccinated, whereas in the United Kingdom, 89% wants to get a shot for COVID-19.

With persistent, world-leading rates of vaccine skepticism, France is adopting a new tactic to boost trust. A 35-member citizens’ vaccine panel, built from a random but demographically representative slice of the country, met for the first time last month in an effort to steer government strategy on COVID-19 vaccinations.

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