Covid Vaccine, Arcuri: “Pfizer will send another 450 thousand doses starting December 28. Drug for everyone, there will be no preferential lanes”

The first symbolic doses will arrive in Italy between Christmas and San Esteban in time to allow our country to participate in the European Vaccine Day December 27. But from the next day “the company will send another 450 thousand doses to begin the first phase of mass administration campaign“. This was announced by the Emergency Commissioner Domenico Arcuri, dissolving the last doubts about the effective date of departure of the vaccination plan. Pfizerhe added, “will send the vials directly to 300 management points elected with autonomous regions and provinces ”, as provided for in the agreement stipulated at European level. For V-Day, however, for logistical reasons and the times will be uparmy distribute the first 9,750 doses to the Regions, which “will have 4 days for its administration, since the drug cannot last longer at certain temperatures. But I think it will happen sooner ”.

Arcuri then guaranteed that for the drug “there will be no preferred lanes, the turn will come for All italians you will want to get vaccinated. We will use all modes of communication, from the traditional to the most innovative, but we ask Italians not to get excited, not to appeal, to don’t look for shortcuts. Everyone will know in time where and when to get vaccinated ”. Furthermore, at the end of January, near the start of the second phase of the vaccination campaign, “a very invasive communication campaign and hopefully very persuasive about vaccines. We will have a call center, a site. Especially the fragile people we will have to contact them and the regional health system “, clarified the commissioner, specifying however that the anti-Covid vaccine will be maintained not compulsory and free for everyone.

Regarding the advances in the implementation of the vaccine plan, Arcuri announced that they are already “19,400 doctors and other health professionals“Those who have applied to work on the vaccination campaign”, a really comforting result, we hope to start soon selections“. the syringes, needles and solvent purchased from public procedure instead they are in progress distribution in the Regions. During the press conference, the commissioner focused on the syringes, trying to clear the field of the controversy caused in recent days by some articles published in the newspapers. To those who accuse you of having bought a model very expensive and it is not necessary for Pfizer medicine (so-called syringes “Luer lock“), Arcuri replied that in the Frequently asked questions published today by the AIFA, it is recommended to use Luer locks for administration. The reason, he added, is that in addition to greater security, they will not disperse. not even a drop of the vials, since soon the manufacturer could advise obtaining from each bottle no longer 5 doses, but “6 or even 7”. It is not a minor detail, since if confirmed it would allow more Italians to be vaccinated earlier.