Pfizer vaccine, the van with the first doses in Italy – Chronicle

Rome, December 25, 2020 – The Pfizer-Biontech anti-Covid vaccine is in Italy. Around 9 this morning, the truck with the first 9,750 doses destined for our country, as we learn. Escorted by the police, the vehicle is destined for the hospital. Spallanzani of Rome.

There the boxes will be stored and divided: some will go to thePratica di Mare military airport To take off with 5 planes, head to the most distant regions. Others with always military vehicles they will reach the other ‘sub-hubs’ within a radius of 300 kilometers. The rest of the vaccines will be used in Spallanzani. There mass vaccination should start next week, when Pfizer has guaranteed more 450 thousand doses.

Meanwhile, the possible impact of the English variant – and holidays – in the contagion curve and, therefore, also in the vaccination campaign. The latter, as Commissioner Domenico Arcuri has repeated several times, would be more complicated with a third wave in progress.

Meanwhile, the CEO of Pfizer, Albert bourla, declares “cautiously optimistic” about the efficacy of the vaccine against the new variant. “We’ve already looked at some data and it appears this new strain is just as sensitive” to the vaccine, Bourla said during a town hall in Navajo. “We are conducting specific studies – he added – that will be completed in 10 days or two weeks.”

And on Twitter the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, in a message of good wishes, writes: “This year Christmas is different. But today I have a message of hope: together we can defeat this virus. In two days the vaccination across the EU. And little by little we can return to normal life. Until then, let’s be careful. “

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