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In the next few hours, a million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine will arrive in Italy and the government is ready to help the regions that have the most difficulties in organizing vaccines and that are making slow progress, especially in the immunization of those over 80, who It is arrested around 40% of the total and that on the other hand, as shown by the study of the Higher Institute of Health on the effects of the vaccine on Rsa, has a fundamental impact on the reduction of cases and deaths: the incidence reached in the last In the week of February and in the first two of March, values are superimposed or lower than those of October (0.6%), in contrast to the trend of the epidemic, while deaths have passed the peak in the week of November 9-15. , with around 1.3% of residents, to 0.6% The executive tries to accelerate the vaccination campaign although now it seems clear that the forecasts indicated in the plan of the Ministry of Health for the first quarter will not be maintained re: a final It is March Italy will have in fact 14 million doses, almost 1.7 million less than expected. The US company’s serum batch is the largest ever shipped to Italy and will be distributed in 214 health centers across the country.
An important breath of fresh air, given that it is the vaccine used for fragile and vulnerable subjects, although the expectations were quite different: at the end of March Italy should have had 15,694,998 doses but it is likely that around 2 are missing. , 6 million, unless there is a maxi-delivery by Astrazeneca. With Pfizer doses arriving in the next few hours, the 336,600 of Moderna already delivered and the 279,000 of Astrazeneca planned for the week, will reach almost 11.2 million. To which should be added, for delivery next week, another million from Pfizer, about 500 thousand from Moderna and probably another 300 thousand from the Anglo-Swedish vaccine, for a total of 13 million. 2.6 million less, therefore, who basically depend on Astrazeneca. What will the Anglo-Swedish company do? Currently there are no certainties and this is also one of the issues that were addressed during another business meeting at Palazzo Chigi between Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Emergency Commissioner Francesco Paolo Figliuolo and the head of the Civil Protection Department Fabrizio Curcio. The other issue is the coordination of the regions, of which the prime minister also spoke with the minister of Regional Affairs, Mariastella Gelmini. As a first step, civil protection volunteering was activated: regions that request it will be able to use volunteers.
But the central node is the strengthening of coordination between the regions, so that all administrations go in the same direction and, above all, the gap between the virtuous, such as Lazio, and those that are having more difficulties, such as Calabria, – where Commissioner Figliuolo will arrive this week – Sardinia, Liguria and Lombardy where President Attilio Fontana has as a whole dismissed the leaders of the regional company ‘Aria’ after the debacle of recent days. On the other hand, the premier in his first press conference, reiterating that the government’s objective is to bring the administration to 500 thousand newspapers as of mid-April, was clear: “the Regions are not in any particular order and that is not Okay. Let’s go fast. At the national level, but the regions are very different in criteria and in the capacity to administer vaccines, some reach 25%, others 5% ”. That is why we must intervene. Minister Gelmini reiterated that the regions will be helped from the logistical and administrative point of view, with civil protection and army personnel, but there is no willingness to commit. And that the priorities are the frail, disabled and caregivers. One of the hypotheses on the table is to extend the reservation platform prepared by Poste also to other regions in addition to those that already use it, Calabria, Sicily, Abruzzo, Marche and Basilicata. Lombardy could also be added to the list. Vaccination can be booked by citizens online, through an ad hoc call center, or through the Postamat ATM by inserting their health card, or through the PDAs that are provided to postmen. The platform also registers the administration and automatically inserts the name into the national vaccination registry, in view of a possible license. However, more than help, the regions are asking for doses. “More than a working group – says the vice president of the Conference of Regions and president of Liguria Giovanni Toti – we need the government to seriously and respectfully plan the vaccines that will arrive.” The president of Emilia Romagna Stefano Bonaccini says he is convinced that by the end of April he will have immunized all those over 80 and that of Veneto Luca Zaia hypothesizes at the beginning of the month. Whenever the doses arrive.
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