In France, there's no escape from Covid vaccine sceptics. What would Pasteur think?

As the rumour and disinformation mills go into overdrive, GPs are having to drum up patients to use up their allocation of jabs

There's a joke doing the rounds in France: how do you get a Frenchman to have the Covid vaccine? Tell him he can't have it.

My dentist - who is French - recounted this and found it hilarious. My doctor - who is not French - was not so amused. Like other GPs she has been trying, and not always succeeding, to persuade her patients to have the AstraZeneca jab. Yes, you read that right, trying to persuade.