Coronavirus vaccine: free for all but not mandatory

12/24/2020 Health



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the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine with what the next Sunday will begin symbolically massive campaign to try to get out of the nightmare of the coronavirus. The first offer could arrive at Christmas, a kind of gift for a country that will be in the red zone. And that, reiterated the extraordinary commissioner Domenico Arcuri, will guarantee free and free access to vaccination for all citizens anti-Covid.

The trucks of the pharmaceutical company with the 9,750 doses leave Belgium at this time and from the Italian borders they will be escorted by the police to Rome, to the Spallanzani hospital. The doses will then be distributed on December 26., On Saturday, to the 21 main reference sites, in view of the European V-Day Sunday. For this operation, Defense with the Air Force, Army and Navy will enter the field for theOperation Eos.

The expectation of the turning point is in the words of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. “It will be a different Christmas – he says – but the development of vaccines and their launch soon are more than a sign of hope for all of us.”. For the prime minister, the goal “is to 10 or 15 million citizens undergoing vaccination have a significant impact. We should get there in April. “Mass rejection is a residual hypothesis, if the problem arises we will see … “, adds the premier, who believes that a mandatory vaccination is not necessary.

The first vaccination of health workers and guests and RSA staff it will take place in all regions on Sunday (or in the following days). However, the extraordinary commissioner assured that “there will be no preferential lanes, The turn will come for all Italians who want to be vaccinated. We will use all communication methods, from the traditional to the most innovative, but we ask Italians not to get excited, not to appeal, not to look for shortcuts. Everyone will know in time where to get the vaccine and when».

And for the undecided, «from the end of January we will start a very invasive and hopefully very persuasive communication campaign about vaccines. We will have a call center, a site. Above all, we will have to contact fragile people and with the regional health system with a health card and other tools we will be able to reach them “, added Arcuri, explaining that” we must not and cannot allow the third wave to arrive, nor can we and will start the vaccination campaign. in full resurgence of the pandemic ”.