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Covid-19: what health protocol for the start of the school year?

 Covid-19: will a fourth dose of vaccine soon be recommended for all French people? In February 2022, Jean-François Delfraissy, then president of the Scientific Council, mentioned "probably a new vaccination campaign in October". While for many French people the third dose dates from the beginning of 2022, will a new booster soon be recommended for all French people? Will the fourth dose be open to a wider audience? Who is affected by the fourth dose? After immunocompromised people and people over 60, the second booster dose has been extended to new audiences since July 20, 2022. These are people who live with a vulnerable or immunocompromised person, pregnant women (from the 1st trimester of pregnancy) and people at risk of a severe form of Covid-19. Since July 26, all health professionals as well as employees in the medico-social sector and firefighters are eligible for the second booster dose against Covid-19. A vaccination campaign in the fall? The possibility of a recall

Mets retire Willie Mays' No. 24 during Old Timers' Day

  For 50 years, the promise hung hollow, unfulfilled, leading many to believe the situation would never change. As the story goes, when original Mets owner Joan Payson traded for   Willie Mays   in the twilight of his career in 1972, she promised him he would be the last Mets player to wear No. 24. Acquiring Mays was important to Payson, who had built the Mets into the hollow space vacated by the Giants -- the team for which Mays would always be best-known. Bringing him back to New York meant bringing him home. Three years later, Payson died. Mays had already retired following two unspectacular seasons with the Mets, and the franchise was entering a decades-long period of either ignoring its history or, in some cases, outright spurning it. Payson’s promise went largely forgotten. Three other Mets players wore No. 24, including Robinson Canó as recently as this season. A new generation of Mets fans began populating Shea Stadium and Citi Field, never having seen Mays play and feeling amb