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The first doses of vaccine in Italy they could arrive in little more than two months. The president of the Irbm di Pomezia, Piero Di Lorenzo, who confirms that, if everything goes as expected, our country would have 2 or 3 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford, Irbm and AstraZeneca.
Vaccine in Italy already in November, the announcement of Irbm
The vaccine could arrive in Italy much earlier than expected. While in the United States, which have chosen to go alone, there is talk of a return to normalcy not before the second half of 2021, where the efforts of several research institutes are joint, the pandemic threat could be removed well in advance.
“the first 2-3 million doses of the Oxford-Irbm-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine should arrive in Italy by the end of November“Said Di Lorenzo, president of the institute who participated in the development of the preparation. But with one condition: that the experimentation progresses positively.
A possibility, however, not too distant, given that the candidate vaccine was administered to more than 50 thousand people worldwide, causing a severe reaction in a single test participant, but which later turned out to be “not related to the vaccine candidate.” The latter has been classified as one of the most advanced on the planet by the World Health Organization.
For Irbm di Pomezia, the Ministry’s calendar will be respected
Last week, phase 3 testing of the potential vaccine was halted after the incident, causing AstraZeneca to crash on the stock market, among other things. However, British health authorities later determined that inflammation of the spine, acute transverse myelitis, that he had hit a volunteer was not caused by the test.
The experimentation, explains the CEO of Irbm, is carried out in double-blind (In the sense that neither the volunteers nor the doctors know to whom the candidate vaccine is given and to whom the placebo.
Therefore, it is said that the team consisting of Oxford, Irbm and AstraZeneca determined to meet deadlines “It was already announced by the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza,” said Di Lorenzo.
