When it comes to vaccination, data reporting and accountability, France wins the award for most absurd situation: for 2 weeks people at the Ministry of Health have privately sent the data *exclusively* to the developer of a popular COVID data aggregator ( http://covidtracker.fr/vaccintracker/ ).

This evening again, this tweet here is how an entire country of 67 million people gets to know how many people have been vaccinated.
That's it. There is no public document, no press conference, no official report that confirms it—absolutely nothing. https://twitter.com/GuillaumeRozier/status/1348277814341099521

This "method" has become the new normal and that's just how things work. Journalists wait for the tweet and copy the number.
In the absence of an open-data file, maybe the government could at least tweet the figures itself instead of giving them to a private citizen?

Beyond the slowness of the French vaccination campaign itself, the members of the press, researchers, and the French public simply can't access the data right now. Instead, it's given to a single person who maintains a private (although very useful) website in his free time.

Our team at @OurWorldinData is building the global database on vaccinations. Our method is clear: we do not report numbers that have not been confirmed publicly. The numbers we display for France will remain those that have been publicly confirmed by the government.

Other governments have sent us non-published data by email and asked us to include it. Our answer is always the same: make it public first, and we will collect it then. This is how transparent, democratic and accountable reporting should work—especially during a deadly epidemic.

Update: @GuillaumeRozier says this morning that he'll no longer publish the numbers given to him by the French government unless they're also made public. Very good decision in my opinion: it can only help speed up the official reporting of the data. https://twitter.com/GuillaumeRozier/status/1348576613928230912