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The slogan is not to eat alarmism. Easier said than done because the news that came yesterday is real media pump that runs the risk of impacting, with serious consequences, on vaccination campaign in our country that is already advancing slowly. Definitely bad news for the executive headed by Draghi which focuses on sprinting in spring to secure 80% of the population by the end of September. This, at least the program in theory, but destined to soon collide with a decidedly more complicated reality.
The decision to suspend has exploded like a bomb as a precaution the use of AstraZeneca vaccine in Italy, Germany and France. Last night also the Spain has decided the suspension for 15 days. A passage soffered but necessary pending the official ruling of the EMA, scheduled in the next few hours, Thursday, March 18. Meanwhile, the experts reassure.
– “The balance of benefits and risks” of the AstraZeneca anti-Covid vaccine “is considered positive and we do not see any problem in continuing vaccinations with this vaccine “. This was stated by Marco Cavaleri, responsible for the vaccination strategy of the EMA, in a hearing in the European Parliament. “We are examining the data and lethal events reported to try to understand if there are specific clusters of cases” linked “to certain types of pathologies or the medical condition of the subjects,” added Cavaleri, noting that there is no evidence so far. that “Demonstrate an emerging risk that affects the benefit / risk ratio “.
But, according to many, the the damage is done.
Returning to the news, yesterday the Nas carabinieri, at the disposal of the Biella Prosecutor, seized the doses of batch ABV5811 AstraZeneca suspended by the Crisis Unit of the Piedmont Region after the death of Sandro Tognatti, the clarinet teacher who died at his home in Cossato a few hours after the administration of the Astrazeneca vaccine. The Biella prosecutor has opened an investigation into the death.
L’AIFAmeanwhile, whose site has been literally raided, says that “in coordination with Ema and the other European countries, will jointly evaluate all events that have been reported after vaccination. “Finally, the Medicines Agency” will immediately release any additional information that may be available, including additional methods to complete the vaccination cycle for those who have already received the first dose.
The European executive signed with AstraZeneca a contract (the first in a long series of agreements with pharmaceutical companies) that provides for the supply to EU countries of 400 million doses. In our country, we go 2,196,000 1,093,800 million doses of the Astrazeneca vaccine delivered in Italy have been administered – according to data published by the government, 49.8% of those that reached our country.
And always yesterday, the first inconvenience. Many people lined up at various vaccination centers across Italy worried and disappointed after the AIFA announcement. Many, for example, Roman citizens who saw closed the doors of the center of Termini, established by the Italian Red Cross, where the inoculation Anglo-Swedish company serum that yesterday I still had one positive dynamics in the stock market, in all the markets in which the Anglo-Swedish group is listed. Despite the multiplication of precautionary suspensions of the administration of its anti-Covid vaccine by several countries, especially Europeans, in London the action obtained a plus of 0.68% to 69.70 pounds, in Stockholm more than 1.24% to 825.6 crowns and in New York, on the Nasdaq, it rose 0.37% to 48.32 dollars.
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