Anti-Covid vaccine, the president of Irbm of Pomezia: “If the tests go well, in November the first 2-3 million doses to Italy”

Italy could receive the first “2-3 million doses” of Vaccine for COVID-19 already at the end of November, that is to say, many months before that raised by several experts. To advertise it inAnsa is Piero di Lorenzo, president of Irbm of Pomezia who collaborated with the Jenner Institute of Oxford University to the development of the prototype. Our country may begin to administer the first dose tranche “if the current trial progresses positively”, especially after the first temporary suspension happened in the last days due to a suspicious reaction on the part of a volunteer. All resolved, Di Lorenzo clarifies, since that episode was then “not related to the candidate vaccine.” The objective of the Oxford-Irbm-AstraZeneca team, therefore, is to respect the deadlines ”already announced by the Minister of Health himself. Roberto Speranza“.

The cessation of the work of Italian and English scientists was ordered on September 9, when a problem is found with one of the 50 thousand volunteers participating in phase III testing. The man had been suffering from spinal inflammation, no acute transverse myelitis, consisting of inflammation in one or more adjacent segments of the spinal cord. However, the independent expert panel that examined the matter established within days that this reaction was not related to the inoculation of the candidate vaccine. This experimentation, explains di Lorenzo, “is in fact carried out in double blindness: this means that neither the doctors nor the patients know to which of the volunteers the candidate vaccine is administered and which only placebo. So, he concludes, the suspicious reaction could also have occurred in a volunteer who had taken the placebo and not the drug. “

When the accident happened, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca was quick to clarify that “it is about a routine action which happens whenever there is a possible inexplicable reaction in one of the tests ”. A thesis also shared by the Italian Society for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, according to which the occurrence of “an unfavorable event in the testing of a new vaccine is absolutely expected and in some normal shape“. The WHO, for its part, immediately thundered against the team, arguing that” countries cannot take shortcuts. Just because we’re talking about the speed and scale of the operation doesn’t mean we’ll start to compromise on security or take shortcuts. Medicines and vaccines to be distributed to the population must be tested. safetyThen came the turning point: the Independent committee Whoever was in charge of determining if the candidate vaccine was the trigger for the crossed myelitis gave the go-ahead to start over.

Meanwhile, at least 30 other international groups are at an advanced stage with trials to find an anti-Covid drug. A situation that has triggered a real rush on the part of the states to get hold of as many doses as possible, in addition to exploiting the work of scientists as a propaganda tool. On one side is Russia, with Putin confirming that he has already recorded his “Sputnik.” On the other hand, the United States of Donald Trump: in these hours, the head of the White House announced that “the coronavirus vaccine will arrive within three to four weeks“In time for the November elections. The goal, inform your staff, is to get “100 million doses by the end of the year“A true race in which not even the European Union is going to be left out. The Chancellor Luigi di maio confirmed that Member States are working “a a great european deal for the vaccine against Covid, whose experimentation continues ”.

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