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The long-awaited date has arrived. Although there is still no green light from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), vaccinations in Europe to stop the pandemic caused by Covid will begin on December 27. The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has announced that in the EU the administration will start two days after Christmas. It is quite clear that the green light is expected from the regulatory authority after the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine has been licensed by the UK, Canada and the US and delivered to healthcare professionals.
So if all the verification procedures are successfully completed on the scheduled dates, Italy will also start with the first vaccines in health personnel that day as it was decided after a meeting between the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza and the special emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri. The Italian government has worked in recent days to favor a common symbolic date for vaccinations in the European Union. “It is time for Europe. Vaccination across the EU will start on December 27, 28 and 29. Let’s protect our citizens together, ”von der Leyen wrote on Twitter. “When we see how many people are dying from the coronavirus right now, we know how many people can be saved,” he said. Angela Merkel, at a virtual press conference with the founders of Biontech and the Ministers of Health and Research. The chancellor said she is pleased that the population can soon be vaccinated with European authorization. Ema will decide after the December 21 meeting.
As for our country, Arcuri will send to the Regions a kind of ‘manual’ for the vaccine and per week all indications for the administration procedure. They will be delivered on 90% of the requests of doses advanced by the Regions and this is due to the fact that it has been estimated that 100% of health personnel planned. The first supply will be 1,833,975 doses, while the second of 2,507,700 doses. It will be there Lombardy receive the highest number of doses of the anti-Covid vaccine: the region most affected by the epidemic will have 304,955 ‘shot’, according to the office of emergency commissioner Arcuri. They follow Emilia romagna (183,138 doses), Lazio (179,818), Piedmont (170,995), Veneto (164,278) and Campania (135,890). In the queue Aosta Valley with 3,334 dosage (read the list, region by region).
“Vaccines are safe and should be done with confidence.. Especially for those over 65 ‘. They prevent infection and are an indispensable safeguard that humanity has benefited from like drinking water. Infant mortality has plummeted thanks to vaccines. There are some undesirable effects, but certainly not what I hear says the new president of Aifa Giorgio Palù, guest of L’aria che throws his La7 – SThey are based on Rna that does not alternate the genome., they can give local inflammatory reactions like any medicine, just read the aspirin leaflet and see how many side effects are described. “
Meanwhile, the European Commission today concluded talks with Novavax, to buy in advance the vaccine against Covid-19 that is being developed by the biotechnology company from Maryland (USA). The envisaged contract would concern the purchase, on behalf of the EU Member States, of 100 million doses, with the option to purchase more 100 million. The contract with Novavax, once signed, would be the seventh, after those with Astrazeneca, Sanofi-Gsk, Janssen (Johnson & Johnson), BionTech / Pfizer, Curevac e Moderna, signed by the Commission on behalf of the EU states, with the aim of having a wide portfolio of vaccines against Covid-19, to maximize the possibility of having effective and safe vaccines to defeat the pandemic. Astrazeneca and Sanofi are behind on the roadmap: the first because it will have to validate the effectiveness of the vaccine with a dose and a half and Sanofi will delay it because the compound has not been shown to stimulate a good immune response in older people.
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