stimpy: The medical angle of this is, indeed, a bit tricky. From what I read in the US press and from sources like CDC and Johns Hopkins, any final verdict on how safe the vaccines are for pregnant women is still out, due to lack of data/large-scale studies (expected to be available this summer). All reliable sources appear to say that the vaccines are a priori safe for pregnant women, but I do understand someone's decision not to get vaccinated while pregnant due to the lack of any official (e.g. CDC) recommendation. By the way, the French government recommended vaccines for pregnant women back in April. I do personally know pregnant women who have been vaccinated, and so far so good. 😏😎

I imagine the French government wanted to roll this out as quickly and as "simply" as possible for the summer holiday season, and so tricky issues like yours were excluded during the arbitrage process. We have all favorably noticed the clarity and relative simplicity of this round of travel restrictions presented yesterday; one can only imagine the complications that would have been introduced by including some sort of vaccinated/non-vaccinated medical exclusion for orange countries. Perhaps this will evolve in the weeks to come, we shall see.

As far as the US or Canada being moved from orange to green, who knows when? The French government has repeatedly emphasized that these color-coded lists are subject to "real time" change; the situation is very fluid. The US seems to be on a very positive (no pun intended) trajectory, and I assume that this will be a topic of discussion next week when Biden is in Europe for the G7 summit (Trudeau, too). So maybe we will have some news on this after next week.I personally don't think the US would be moved to green any time over the summer.