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The first vials of the vaccine against COVID-19 came to Italy. The first truck with 9,750 doses of the Covid vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech arrived on Italian territory from the Brenner border, after leaving Puurs, in Belgium. Escorted by the carabinieri, the vehicle will now head to the Spallanzani hospital in Rome.
From the Roman hospital, the containers, programmed to keep the temperature at minus 70 degrees, will be distributed to the Regions, escorted by the army. Part of the containers will be transported by Spallanzani to the military port of Pratica di Mare where 5 planes will reach the most distant destinations. The other batches will be sent to their respective destinations by land, accompanied by 60 vehicles and 250 soldiers.
In the second phase, when the quantities are greater, the storage poles become 21: the logistics involves the use of 11 airplanes, 73 helicopters and 360 vehicles.
Vaccination, in Italy, will begin on December 27, as in the rest of the European Union. It will be a demonstrative vaccination for 10 thousand health workers who have reserved spontaneously. At least 300,000 weekly doses will arrive in the coming weeks. Throughout the year there will be 26 million doses.
On January 6, Ema, the European Medicines Agency, should approve the request for authorization from the company Moderna: after the green light, it should deliver around 11 million doses in the course of 2021.
Instead, the examination of the AstraZeneca vaccines of which Italy expects around 40 million doses should be scheduled for the 12th of the same month.
The vaccine will initially go to health workers and workers and guests of nursing homes, then to those over 80 years of age and then gradually to the younger age groups from 79 and to the population with at least minus a chronic illness. Pfizer’s product has been licensed for use for more than 16 years.
The Pfizer vaccine works, like Moderna’s, with a completely innovative technology, based on messenger RNA or mRNA. The vaccine does not contain small fragments of attenuated virus: its function is to transfer genetic information to cells that teach the organism to respond to the attack of the infectious agent Sars-CoV-2. There is no risk that RNA can integrate with human DNA. Once you leave the message, the RNA disappears.
The Pfizer vaccine, like the others, cannot be reserved privately: distribution centrally organized by the government. It will be free for everyone.
The Pfizer vaccine is already being distributed in several countries. Currently recorded side effects are completely insignificant: in 2-4% of cases, fatigue, fever, headache, muscle pain were observed.
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December 25, 2020 (change December 25, 2020 | 10:20)
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