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The plan to exit the pandemic. Beyond two hundred million (202) doses of Covid vaccine available for Italy from the first quarter of 2021. A light at the end of the tunnel – announced by the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza in a meeting at Palazzo Chigi with the majority group leaders – which will inevitably pass the approval of international authorities (FDA for the United States and EMA for Europe). The Pfizer vaccine – which together with Moderna and AstraZeneca await the green light – will arrive “between January 23 and 26” and the doses “will go to the 300 points identified, which are directly hospitals,” said the minister. From that moment on, we started from the plan – which will be presented to the Chambers today – drawn up together with the emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri. “Every dose, based on current knowledge, needs a booster and we don’t know how much immunity there is,” Speranza explained.
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PLAN Mass vaccinations will be carried out using large public spaces, gyms, open spaces, fairs. Vaccine distribution will be entirely state-owned: management will be centralized and the vaccine will be distributed in accordance with medical and scientific decisions. For the Pfizer vaccine, there is the issue of storage temperature and for this Arcuri spoke of three hundred distribution stations installed with the capacity to maintain it at -75 degrees.
GUARANTEED SECURITY Of the vaccines close to the finish line, despite very short times, none will have any derogation from safety and efficacy evaluation mechanisms. The president of the Higher Institute of Health Silvio Brusaferro also reiterated yesterday at a press conference. Meanwhile, the EMA – which has also received authorization requests for the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine – has admitted that it “will do everything possible to reach a very quick decision” that could come, including consultation of member states in the committee. , within a “couple of days” after the green light from the European Medicines Agency.
DATA FROM YESTERDAY Still 785 deaths in one day, Many. But, for the first time in a month, the beginning of this week showed a slight decrease. A timid sign of how the queue of deaths may have begun to follow the decline of the infection. In two days there are 1,457 victims of the coronavirus, 26 fewer than the same days last week. In the same comparison, there are eleven thousand fewer infections (yesterday 19,350 were registered with 182,100 swabs) confirming the constant decrease that began a couple of weeks ago and that brought the ratio between positives and smears to 10% and between positives and cases analyzed to 22.7%. The counterattack between cured patients (with yesterday’s 27,000, now there are 784,595) and currently positive (779,945, a decrease of 8,526 units in one day) is also important. There are 3,663 patients in intensive care (-81 compared to Monday) and 32,811 hospitalized in ordinary wards (-376). The number of people in home isolation also drops to 743,471 (-8,069). In the detail of the regions, in addition to Lombardy (which registered another four thousand infections and 249 deaths), more than two thousand cases in a day there is only Veneto.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 10:18 AM
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