Covid, Conte: “Possible first doses of the vaccine in early December. To contain the pandemic we will have to wait until spring”

The great march to get a vaccine as soon as possible continues. As is well known, many candidates are in phase three and some have already submitted documentation to pharmaceutical agencies for data analysis. And it is this acceleration that will allow us to have, in the event of positive and definitive results, a compound for the prevention of Covid in an unimaginable time until a few months ago. “If the last stages of preparation (the so-called moving value) of the Oxford-Irbm Pomezia-Astrazeneca vaccine they will be completed in the coming weeks, the first doses will be available in early December, “said the prime minister. Giuseppe Conte a Bruno Vespa that Mondadori Rai Libri publishes the book on October 29 titled Why Italy loved Mussolini (and how he resisted the Covid dictatorship). “At the beginning we will have the first two or three million doses. Millions more will come to us soon after. The European Commission has ordered Astrazeneca and other companies several hundred million doses. I think to fully contain the pandemic we will have to wait until next spring anyway”Stressed the prime minister.

Some days ago Piero Di Lorenzo, The president of the Irbm of Pomezia, the center that developed the candidate vaccine produced by AstraZeneca together with the University of Oxford, explained that in the absence of problems and setbacks “it is reasonably credible that by the end of 2020 about 3 million doses will reach the country “. “.” We are waiting with caution and confidence – reiterated Di Lorenzo – Rightly and deservedly EMA (the European drug agency, ed), to shorten the time of the bureaucracy, he said: give us all the data that is available, to save time. With the fact that the regulatory agencies are now continuously informed of any progress in the lawsuit, in this specific case I think they will be able to issue an opinion within a few weeks. ” Following the brief suspension for suspected adverse reaction in one volunteer, “experimentation was resumed regularly and there were no setbacks.” And the end of the year term is “reasonably credible”, repeats the president of the Irbm who always speaks of “cautious waiting”.

Oxford is one of the candidates and is among the most promising. After a verification stop, volunteer enrollment continued. Among these also Antonio Metastasio, psychiatrist and geriatrician from Terni engaged in experimentation: “There is an enemy and we must fight it all together. At this time putting on the masks, respecting the distance and taking care of hand hygiene with care. Waiting for the vaccine to arrive, hopefully as soon as possible. Because right now there is no single safe way out. When it’s winter, put on your coat – he says in an interview with Ansa – even if you know that it won’t be forever and in spring you will take it off ”. Metastasio lives with his family in Cambridge and works with the national health service. It cannot be denied that the situation related to the Covid pandemic is getting worse. “I always wear a mask on my jacket and another in the car. With my family we lead a careful life and while before I returned to Terni practically every month, now I don’t know when I will be able to do it ”.
For the psychiatrist, however, at this time there are no alternatives and “it is useless to say that the virus does not exist or to experience prevention measures as abuse. At this time we must be strong and united. It is a difficult time for all – he continues – and I think that the debate about the virus that is not there does not help. Sars Cov 2 is there and will probably be there for several months. How many can no one know. However, we must also address the issue of discomforts linked to social isolation, seek new approaches to psychiatric pathologies that are inevitably spreading. For example, using support groups. However, we must also think – concludes Metastasio – that Covid is not the ‘black plague’: it is an enemy and we must all resist together ”.

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