I think it's fair to say the French vaccination campaign against type A flu has been a near-fiasco. Distrust of the vaccine formulation itself has been widespread, with regard to the side effects of the adjuvants involved. There have been allegations of collusion between the government and vaccine manufacturers, and of conflicts of interest on the part of government advisers. GPs were repeatedly refused permission to vaccinate their patients. This didn't help with the trust issues, and was a factor in the slow pace of the campaign. Instead, the government opened a small number of makeshift vaccination centres run by conscripted medical staff, often with impractical opening hours. IMO, there's a baffling contradiction between the large number of vaccine doses ordered and the bottlenecks in their administration the government itself created. As the peak of the epidemy approached, the proportion of the population vaccinated was too little, too late.

But then there's this:    

Le Figaro: Grippe A : des millions de cas sans symptômes

   
   

Une étude visant à doser dans le sang systématiquement les anticorps contre le virus H1N1 vient d'être conduite à Marseille chez des femmes enceintes. Les premiers résultats pour cette tranche d'âge de 20-39 ans révèlent que pour une personne ayant consulté pour grippe, quatre ont été infectées. Si l'on extrapole grossièrement ce qui n'est pas prudent, selon les experts ces résultats à toute la population, près de 20 millions de personnes en France auraient déjà été infectées par le H1N1,

A study has just been conducted in Marseilles involving systematic quantitation of blood antibodies against the H1N1 virus across a population of pregnant women. Early results for the 20-39 age group show that for every person seeking medical attention for the flu, four more have been infected. A rough extrapolation of these figures to the entire population (which is unwarranted, according the the experts) would mean that some 20 million people in France may have already been infected with the H1N1 virus.

You're clearly a dangerous pinko commie pragmatist.