Disabled health pass for over 65s: 10 questions to understand everything

Emmanuel Macron announced it in his speech on November 9: all people over 65 who have not taken their booster dose will no longer have a health pass from December 15. This deadline has caused panic among many seniors, worried about not finding an appointment on time. La Dépêche explains to you what is changing.

No not at all. The vast majority of health passes for people over 65 will still be valid this Wednesday, December 15. This deadline was set to encourage seniors to take their third booster dose from the moment they are eligible for it.

Those over 65 must have had their booster dose 5 months after the second injection, regardless of the vaccine received (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca). If you have received the Janssen vaccine, the booster dose should only take place one month after the single dose.

An additional period is granted to be vaccinated: 2 more months for the Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines and an additional month for the Janssen vaccine. The booster dose must therefore take place seven months maximum after the second for the main vaccines and two months for Janssen.

Concretely, if you received the second dose of vaccine on May 12, 2021, and you did not receive the booster dose on December 15, then your health pass will be deactivated on December 15.

400,000 people over the age of 65 would be threatened with losing their health pass, this Wednesday, December 15, according to RMC, which quotes the General Directorate of Health.

Health Insurance has set up the tool “My Covid vaccine reminder”. It allows you to know the date from which you must take your booster dose but also to know the expiry date of your health pass if you do not do the booster dose. Click here to access it. Likewise, TousAntiCovid has a new option that alerts you when your health pass is about to expire.

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If the booster dose is not carried out on time, your health pass will not be completely deleted. It will be placed in the "expired certificate" category of your TousAntiCovid application and can no longer be used. You will then be refused entry to places where the health pass is required.

If your health pass is suspended, it will be reactivated once you have received the third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

For the third dose, if you do the booster within the month following your eligibility date, the new certificate will be valid immediately. Your current health pass remains valid as long as you are on time.

No, it will no longer be valid. When you have received your booster dose, a new QR code will be issued to you.

The only solution that will be offered to you, in this case, is not to go to a place where the health pass is required or to carry out an antigen test (the fastest) or a PCR test. Please note that they are valid for 24 hours from the time of sampling, and not from the time of communication of the result.

Yes quite. Olivier Véran assured it. People over 65 have priority. They can go to a vaccination site without an appointment and can then be vaccinated, even if it means waiting a bit, depending on how busy the site is but also on the doses of vaccine available.