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Italy’s goal is to be able to vaccinate up to 300,000 people a day when it is fully operational. Only the Lazio expects to reach 40,000 every 24 hours. However, there is a problem: Italy is unlikely to have the first doses available before the end of January. Bottom line: you can also set up an organizational machine that allows you mass vaccination, but if there aren’t enough supplies, you risk being useless. The recent braking of the vaccine from AstraZeneca, on which Italy has focused from the beginning (although the producers have specified that there will be no delays and already in 10 days the documents for the validation of Ema, the European authority will be presented). One scenario remains: the UK and the US go with the vaccines at the end of December, Italy and the European Union must wait until the end of January.
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But which of the three vaccines in the final stretch will be privileged? There is no hierarchy, between Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca-IrbmOxofrd and Moderna we will start with what will be available first. There is an organizational difference: the Pfizer vaccine must always remain at a temperature below minus 70 degrees. The Regions are buying special cold rooms: only Lazio is acquiring 80, in Lombardy it has been tendered for 90, in total in Italy there will be at least 300. Pfizer, if the European authorization of Ema arrives, will provide 1, 7 million doses (in they are actually even, because a double administration is planned) in January, to reach 27 million for Italy in the whole of 2021. The American multinational that collaborates with the Germans from BioNTech has already contacted the trucking companies that have cold rooms because it will take the product to its final destination. Vaccination can be carried out safely in hospitals where there is the possibility of conservation, it is more difficult to think about doing it by the GP of the small town as for the flu. The AstraZeneca vaccine (but also that of the modern American) does not require such cold temperatures: 70 million doses will be delivered in June, with a potential more agile and generalized distribution, because super refrigerators are not needed. You can use the same channels as the flu vaccine, therefore also by the GP. In summary: the administration of the Pfizer vaccine will only be carried out in hospitals or drive-ins close to large structures with cold rooms, AstraZeneca also in small centers. Another non-secondary fact: the AstraZeneca vaccine costs much less than the others, just under 3 euros per dose.
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Why were the Anglo-Saxon countries able to arrive earlier? In the UK, the government has already alerted hospitals requesting to prepare for the distribution of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine, which will take place in ten days: healthcare workers will be the first to get vaccinated. In the United States, since last Friday, a series of United Airlines charter flights carry the Pfizer vaccine to various points in America, but also to Europe, using Brussels as a hub. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Pfizer has expanded the capacity of its distribution sites located in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin and Karlsruhe, Germany. The pharmaceutical company for the distribution chain intends to use refrigerated boxes on board the planes and trucks that will then distribute the vaccine around the world. In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration is meeting next week and authorization for the “emergency use” vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna is awaited: it means that the vaccination will be activated immediately among healthcare professionals. In short: what until a few months ago seemed like science fiction, the mass vaccination against Covid, is taking place, perhaps even before the end of the damn 2020. But not in Italy, for now.
The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, will present the vaccination plan next Tuesday in Parliament. Health workers will also start in our country, followed by guests of nursing homes, those over 65 and citizens with multiple pathologies, therefore, fragile subjects. Will someone who has already tested positive need to get vaccinated? “In theory, yes – observes Professor Massimo Andreoni, head of Infectious Diseases at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic – but it is possible, taking into account that we always speak of voluntary choice, that those who have been ill wait before being vaccinated”.
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