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Sonia Battaglia, 54, struggles today between life and death in the hospital of the sea in Naples, hospitalized in intensive care after receiving a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine from batch ABV5811, the same as Biella’s professor Sandro Tognatti while Aifa suspends serum throughout Italy. Like the clarinet teacher, Battaglia had no previous pathologies: “She has always been healthy as a fish – they tell the family -. Two days later she had a fever, she was sleeping all the time, she could not speak” until she became “totally immobile. . “. For her there is also a temporal link, but no causal link has been proven.
Why Aifa suspends AstraZeneca after one million vaccinated causes panic throughout Italy
Meanwhile, the lawyers for the relatives of Anna Maria Mantile, the teacher who died in Naples a few days after the administration of a dose of the Anglo-Swedish vaccine, have meanwhile asked the Naples Prosecutor’s Office to acquire the documentation on the data on contraindications that emerged during the experimental phase of the vaccine, administered to more than a million Italians. Specifically, the doses used are 1,093,800 of the 2,196,000 delivered, or 49.8% of those that reached our country. The first inoculations were on February 11, when 2,919 were administered, while the peak at that time was reached last Friday, with 64,684 doses administered.
However, for Mantile, the autopsy results excluded any cause related to the injection: death was caused “by an intestinal infarction caused in turn by the seizure, in the abdominal wall, of a loop of the digestive tract.” Hemorrhagic shock and cardiac arrest were fatal. The professor had accused a state of discomfort accompanied by vomiting, a consequence of an intestinal obstruction. The autopsy examination was carried out by a panel of experts, technical consultants, appointed by the Naples Prosecutor’s Office.
Yesterday, the Italian Medicines Agency announced the decision to suspend vaccination with Astrazeneca throughout Italy. The decision was made by Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Health Minister Roberto Speranza after his German counterpart Jens Spahn warned the latter of Germany’s decision to suspend the vaccine. Meanwhile, France and Germany had followed suit, while in recent days Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Bulgaria, Ireland and the Netherlands had followed suit. The decision was made pending a position from the EMA (the European drug agency) which, however, will arrive only tomorrow or even Thursday, January 18. But even if the EMA gave a new go-ahead to the Astrazeneca vaccine, following the suspension by Aifa, the entire vaccination campaign suffers a serious blow to credibility and is now at risk.
Why is Germany suspending the Astrazeneca vaccine? Il Fatto Quotidiano explains today that the election was also explained by the fear of millionaire lawsuits, of which the pharmaceutical companies have kept safe in the contracts signed with the EU Commission, leaving the bill in charge of the States. But the problem is that more than a million Italians have already been vaccinated with Astrazeneca, between now and September Italy expects 34 million doses of the same drug (and 50 from Pfizer / BioNTech and 26 from Johnson & Johnson).
The Paul-Ehrilch-Institut Berlin reported yesterday that it observed “an impressive accumulation of a very rare special form of cerebral venous thrombosis (sinus vein thrombosis) in connection with a shortage of platelets in the blood (thrombocytopenia) and bleeding in the temporal proximity of vaccines with the AstraZeneca vaccine “. How many cases? “Currently, 7 cases of cerebral venous thrombosis have been reported out of a total of 1.6 million vaccines administered in Germany,” Spahn told a news conference. “This is a very low risk. But if there is a link to the vaccine, it would be above average,” he said.
Cerebral venous thrombosis and the Astrazeneca vaccine: what about Aifa in Italy and Germany
A conclusion that the EMA no longer seems to agree with. Episodes of “blood clots, some with unusual features such as low platelet counts, have occurred in a very limited number of people who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine,” the European Medicines Agency said in a statement. “Many thousands of people – noted the European body in a note – develop blood clots every year in the EU for various reasons. The number of global thromboembolic episodes in vaccinated people does not appear to be higher than that observed in the general population.” .
The World Health Organization also believes that countries should continue to use the AstraZeneca vaccine. “Unfortunately, people die of thrombosis every day, the key is whether this has any link to the vaccine. At the moment we have not found that there is a relationship between the vaccine and the cases of thrombosis detected. In fact, the rates of Thromboses among those vaccinated are even lower than those of the population as a whole. No drug is 100% safe, but we must take into account the advantages of vaccinating the population, “said Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist of the WHO, in the briefing from Geneva.
And the Italian Society for the Study of Haemostasis and Thrombosis (Siset) yesterday adopted a position reiterating that the figures should not be alarming: as of March 10 “the European adverse event surveillance system had registered 30 cases of thrombotic events in 5 million subjects vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine. This number is comparable to the thrombosis rate generally recorded in the general population and it is currently not possible to establish whether there was a causal link between vaccination and thrombotic events or whether the events occurred only from coincidentally “and” in pivotal studies with close monitoring of adverse effects no increased risk of thrombosis was reported. “
Siset, evidently intuiting the risk of psychosis, has also explained that it is not advisable to take antithrombotic drugs after vaccination “unless they have already been taken by prior medical prescription.” And he urged “to perform laboratory or instrumental tests in the absence of symptoms aimed at monitoring a supposed thrombotic risk that has no motivation; obviously, and as always, symptoms evocative of thromboembolism such as edema or pain in the extremities, chest pain, breathing Difficulties, persistent headaches – concludes the Company – must be reported to your doctor and carefully evaluated, regardless of the vaccination practice ”.
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: what those who have received the Astrazeneca vaccine should do
What should those who have received the Astrazeneca vaccine do, which in Italy alone has inoculated a million people (to be exact, the doses used are 1,093,800 of the 2,196,000 delivered, or 49.8% of those that arrived in our country? inoculations on February 11, when 2,919 were made, while the peak was reached last Friday, with 64,684 doses administered)? The Spanish Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, and the director of the Spanish Medicines Agency, María Jesús Lamas, have asked their citizens to remain “calm.” “What can be expected now from the AstraZeneca vaccine is to have more protection against covid than anything else,” Lamas said at a press conference broadcast by Spanish media. He added: “It is very unlikely that someone who has already received the vaccine will experience a serious effect.” The AstraZeneca covid vaccine is not responsible for the thrombosis, said Phil Bryan, director of the British drug regulatory agency’s vaccine safety department, saying the organization “is carefully studying” reported cases in several European countries. The available data “does not indicate that the vaccine is the cause” of the problems found. “Thromboses can occur naturally and are not uncommon.”
The general manager of Aifa Nicola Magrini, guest of Lilli Gruber at eight and a half in La7, maintained the agency’s line despite the decision: “We said that the vaccine is safe and we continue to say it, the benefit-risk ratio is Largely positive. Due to the occurrence of very rare events of cerebral thrombosis that have aroused the media stir and in order to have a coherent attitude among all European countries, the political decision was made to suspend the administration, unlike last week where we felt it was enough. The decision of the Judiciary on a single batch. These days we need to have more data and convince everyone of the safety of the vaccine. “But the problem that not all the protagonists of a The dark story, in which the day before was reassured about the risks of a vaccine suspended the next day, is that the decision to suspend Astrazeneca will have repercussions impossible to c control. on a population that saw in the vaccine the light at the end of the tunnel of a pandemic that for more than a year has brought the whole of Europe to its knees.
What happens to Draghi’s vaccination plan after the Astrazeneca decision?
Thousands of vaccination centers, from one end of the country to the other, find themselves suddenly suspending vaccines, sending back home those who were in line, waiting for the inoculation of salvation and now running the risk of scaring, with new cases of thrombosis and suspicion. deceased. Last Friday at one of those centers, the Fiumicino airport hub, Prime Minister Draghi had assured that “whatever the final decision of the EMA” on the Anglo-Swedish vaccine, the vaccination campaign will continue “with renewed intensity. “. But the setback is frightening, and it occurs as a result of the confrontation between Speranza and the president of Piedmont Alberto Cirio, due to the flight of the Region forward on the vaccine ‘of discord’, which had led the governor to suspend everything, except then be forced to retrace his steps. A confrontation that today has the bitter taste of mockery. In the evening, immediately after seeing the president of the Lazio Region Nicola Zingaretti, Draghi received the number one Civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio at Palazzo Chigi.
Also because AstraZeneca could have another very small weakness: according to a study cited by the head of Ema’s vaccination strategy Marco Cavaleri, the vaccine, unlike those of the J&J, Moderna and Pfizer brands, would have been ineffective against the South African variant of the vaccine. Covid, although more checks are needed. The fear, despite calls for caution, is that panic will spread among citizens, effectively stopping the vaccination campaign to which the Draghi government intends to give wings. Without considering the hypothesis that, since Thursday’s meeting, the EMA should stop the Anglo-Swedish vaccine. But the point is that the government’s decision seems to have been taken in perfect sync with the other European executives, based on a carry-over effect that will trigger fear, psychosis and panic just when exactly the opposite was needed. And it happens after an incredible series of “communication” errors by the actors in the story. The other day the San Raffaele professor Roberto Burioni wrote: “I understand that if you decide not to vaccinate yourself scared by inexplicable decisions, terrifying titles, indifference of pharmaceutical companies. I understand you and I am sorry because you will expose yourself to a serious risk – that of contracting COVID -19- to avoid ridicule, related to vaccination. I’m sorry but I can’t help it. I give up. ”
The professor wanted to point out that it was the combination of the incomprehensible choices of the authorities in charge and the silence of the pharmaceutical companies, together with the alarmism of the media, which generated that panic that everyone wants to avoid with words. We now know that the governing bodies make decisions based on what the institutions and politicians tell them, and this explains much of the confusion. But it won’t help to avoid it. Today I only have four words to add: “Good luck,” Burioni concluded yesterday. It is a way of saying “good luck”. And the bad thing is that we need it urgently.
