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NEW YORK – In extreme alarm at the increase in deaths, more than 3,000 deaths a day, the United States is accelerating the operation of the vaccine. Pfizer product stewardship will begin on Monday, Tuesday at the latest thanks to the green light from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the federal drug authority. About 3 million “double doses” are ready for distribution (the Pfizer vaccine requires a booster three weeks after the first injection), which is sufficient for less than one percent of the population. They will be reserved as a priority for two categories of risk: health personnel, doctors and nurses; elderly hospitalized in nursing homes.
The rush for vaccination has had a spasmodic push under two pressures: the increase in deaths that is not meant to give a respite in two or three months; and a controversial speech by Donald trump in the fda. The drug authority received a positive opinion from its scientific experts on Thursday. He announced the final decision on the green light for the Pfizer vaccine last night, no later than this morning.
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by our correspondent Alberto d’Argenio
Trump intervened with messages between insolent and threatening. Against the FDA, he tweeted: “Big, old, slow turtle.” Then addressed to the head of authority Stephen Hahn: «Authorize vaccines NOW. Stop playing games and start saving lives. “Later, the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, communicated to Hahn himself the president’s ultimatum: green light on the vaccine for last night, or immediate dismissal. responded shortly Joe biden: “There can be no political influence on the vaccine,” he tweeted.
Is Trump’s decision making to save lives or political interference? Certainly, the gravity of the situation gave him solid arguments. The head of the health authority of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) at the same time issued a warning to Americans: “In the next 60 or 90 days we will suffer more deaths every day than on September 11, 2001 or in the attack on Pearl Harbor “. It confirms that the more than 3,000 deaths a day will become the “new normal,” the average budget that the United States must get used to.
However, Trump’s diktat to the FDA has raised doubts: politicizing the distribution of vaccines, interfering with the decision times of a respected authority, can fuel suspicions already widespread in a part of the population. In the United States, as in Europe, there are no vax movements of all ideological colors, plus the gray areas of distrust. An intervention in the FDA because short cuts in procedures can be counterproductive. To reassure skeptics, Dr. Anthony Fauci – one of the Trump administration’s top medical experts, often at odds with the outgoing president, and has already been inducted into Joe Biden’s health task force. He announced that they will inject the vaccine in public.
Meanwhile, another vaccine race has begun: the race to be declared “essential services” and jump to the top of the waiting list. Airlines are one of the sectors that points to this shortcut. The interests involved are enormous. Being entitled to a priority distribution means shortening the return to normality in months, recovering customers, billing and benefits. The decision on who is entitled to this preferential lane is political, for the moment it is up to the outgoing administration.
