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Among the first in Sicily, to receive the vaccine dose, this morning, Paolo Felice, renowned and esteemed professional from the province of Agrigento and national vice president of the FIMP (Italian Federation of Pediatricians) and, along with him, representatives of various categories of the medical landscape. – sanitary.
Air Force C27J landed last night at Palermo airport with the first 865 precious doses of the Pfizer-BionTech vaccine bound for Sicily.
The plane landed and, diametrically, the hope took off that we can defeat this damn virus and regain possession of our lives.
V-Day, Vaccine-day, as the event was called, kicked off simultaneously in all Member States to give a sign of cohesion and underline the turning point, as noted by the head of the European executive.
Yesterday, the day of the “eve” of vaccination, the president of the EU commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, wrote in a note posted on twitter: “Today we start to turn the page in a difficult year. The COVID19 vaccine has been delivered to all EU countries. Vaccination will start tomorrow across the EU. The “UE Vaccination Days ”are a moving moment of unity. Vaccination is the lasting way out of the pandemic ”.
In Italy the first have come to the moment 9,750 doses. The Minister of Health clarified that the doses delivered to all European countries by December 27 are in a “symbolic” number: the actual distribution will start from the week of December 28, and some 470 thousand doses will arrive in Italy each week.
This morning at 7:20 am, at the Spallanzani National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Rome, Professor Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Nurse Claudia Alivernini, and Health Social Worker Omar Altobelli, were the first in Italy to receive the anti-vaccine. Covid- 19. Capobianchi, director of the virology laboratory, said:
“I am aware that today is an important and decisive day. Science and medicine are the only things that will allow us to get out of this virus.
“It’s a day we’ve been waiting for a long time“- said the Minister of Health immediately after the first three vaccinations at the Spallanzani in Rome. “The light is coming but we have to hold out for a few more months. It is not over yet and we must always respect the rules. “
Re-landing in Sicily and, specifically in Palermo, the first administration of the vaccine was carried out at 11:30 am in the Civic Hospital, in pavilion 24, specially equipped.
Present the president of the Sicilian Region Nello Musumeci and the health advisor Ruggero Razza.
As noted in the opening remarks, Paolo Felice, a renowned and esteemed professional in the province of Agrigento and national vice president of the FIMP (Italian Federation of Pediatricians), was among the first to receive the vaccine dose this morning. Along with him, representatives of various categories of the medical-health panorama.
“The vaccine – he said – is our only weapon to help ourselves and others”, we need to spread the “culture” of vaccination that means respect for the whole community “, getting vaccinated is an act of love and, at the same time, of responsibility “.
The vaccine, he stressed, convinced and ‘happy’ – I did it to protect myself and my little patients with whom I am in close contact, among other things, the vaccine can only be administered from the age of 16 “.
“I hope that I and those of us who are here with me today,” he continued, “have been an example. My firm intention is to convey a message of hope and confidence in science that, in record time, has made it possible to prepare the vaccine. anti-covid, and allows us to look to the future in a … optimistic way, not to use the term “positive”.
As for the technical part, he explained, this first dose of vaccine will be followed, 21 days later, by the administration of the second dose and, approximately one week after it, protection against the infamous virus will be activated.
December 27, therefore, is a memorable date, to be marked on the calendar, in the mind and in the heart, it is finally possible to glimpse the light at the end of the Covid tunnel.
“Today Italy wakes up. It’s the #VaccineDay. This date will remain with us forever – writes the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, on Twitter – Let’s start with health workers and the most vulnerable groups and then extend to the entire population the possibility of achieving immunity and definitively defeating this virus ”.
Since Holy See It is reiterated that the vaccine must be available to everyone: “It is a light that is turned on in a tunnel that until now was very dark but at the same time it asks for a great responsibility:
for the vaccine to be truly an act of love, as the Pope has emphasized, it must be available to all and in all countries ”, said Bishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life”.
