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The “proper structures” have not yet been communicated to Commissioner Arcuri, beginning with hospitals capable of storing Pfizer’s vaccine, among the first to arrive.
by Marzio Bartoloni
The “proper structures” have not yet been communicated to Commissioner Arcuri, beginning with hospitals capable of storing Pfizer’s vaccine, among the first to arrive.
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The Italian Covid vaccination plan is not there yet, but it already begins with the first delays. The Regions should have indicated to the Commissioner for the emergency Domenico Arcuri before “Friday 23 November” (in the letter sent by Arcuri on 17 November there is an error, Friday was actually 21 November) “adequate structures” in the 107 Italian provinces, starting with hospitals, capable of storing the Pfizer vaccine, among the first to arrive and perhaps the most delicate to handle due to the need to ensure the cold chain (storage at -75 degrees). Last Friday, however, only 10 Regions responded, half of which rose to 13. The new deadline for submitting the list of appropriate structures has thus been moved to midnight on November 23.
German reference model
These are the premises of the Italian plan that is emerging in recent days and that, according to the technicians of the Ministry of Health, will be inspired by German. Minister Roberto Speranza intends to present it already in the coming days in Parliament where, among other things, the “mandatory” issue of the vaccine will be discussed – it seems to point to a “recommendation” – as well as the categories that will have priority: the idea is that of vaccinating health workers first, by the elderly (especially in the RSA) and by the police.
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Pfizer’s strategy
More specifically, the Regions had to indicate to Commissioner Arcuri the hospitals where this first phase of administration will be developed together with “mobile units” to vaccinate guests and operators of residential facilities for the elderly. Pfizer has ensured that it will take the doses directly to each point of administration in special bags that contain a maximum of 5 boxes of 975 doses each and that can guarantee storage for 15 days, but to store them for at least 6 months you will need super cameras. cold. Hence the need to indicate the “appropriate” structures.
3 thousand reference structures
Yesterday, November 23, the same Commissioner Arcuri recalled in the Chamber’s budget committee that there will be a point of “conservation and administration” of anti-Covid vaccines for every 20 thousand citizens. Then there will be a total of 3 thousand reference structures. And given that there will be different types of vaccines, Arcuri explained, the plan must take into account fundamentally four variables: distribution by the manufacturer or the state of purchase, storage temperature, method of administration, time interval between the first and the first. . second dose (almost all candidate vaccines require double administration). “Taking into account the four variables – said Arcuri – we are organizing a plan that foresees the involvement of the Regions and Municipalities that I have already asked to indicate the administration points within the hospitals and Rsa”.
Spent so far 94 million
So far 94 million have been spent on the purchase of vaccines, which is the quota that the EU “has asked Italy for the amount of vaccines that have been prepared so far,” added the commissioner, underlining that the “procurement mechanism and the contracting of vaccines is carried out within a pool of the European Union that groups together all the countries that have signed the agreement. ”Within this agreement, Arcuri explained, each country has the right to a percentage of vaccines and Italy is 13.5 percent.
