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“On December 29 and January 12, the EMA will rule on the documentation provided by Pfizer and Moderna on anti-Covid vaccines. This should allow 3.4 million doses to vaccinate 1.7 million people. In the second half of January it is expected that the vaccinations will begin, then the available doses will increase and, at the end of summer or beginning of autumn, we should have completed the administration of the largest mass vaccination campaign that has been carried out in the country ” . Thus Franco Locatelli, president of the Higher Health Council (Css) and member of the technical scientific committee (Cts) of Agorà en Rai 3.
“We are happily part of the EU and the evaluation times of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will allow vaccination courses to start more or less simultaneously in all European countries. The process of evaluating the information available in the dossier presented to Ema will be extraordinarily rigorous and this is the best guarantee of safety ”, he added, responding to the different schedule with which the Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in the United Kingdom compared to the rest of the European Union.
For the administration of the vaccine, Locatelli stressed, “we will start from health workers who work in hospitals and RSA, which has the meaning not only of guaranteeing their personal safety, but also of giving continuity in the workplace and protecting people who trust them. “Then it will be extended to residents in residential structures and those over 80 years of age, based on the principle of” prioritizing those who are at higher risk of developing more serious forms, given that the average age of those who die from Covid is 81 years “.”.
The way to obtain herd coverage with around 70% of the vaccinated population, to stop the circulation of Sars-Cov-2, Locatelli specified, “is to provide information in a complete and transparent way to create a culture of vaccination thanks to which humanity has been spared deadly diseases such as polio and smallpox. But, for health workers, taking into account the above observations, it would be correct to foresee a vaccination obligation from the beginning. ” On how long the immunity conferred by vaccines will last, he concludes: “Only observation will give us a solid, complete and definitive answer.”
“It was possible to control figures that showed significant growth,” he added. Yesterday’s data shows that the percentage of positive swabs compared to those made is continuously decreasing and the load on the positions in the medical area is reduced. in intensive care. “The number of deaths, still very high despite the curve of the best infections,” are the ones that hurt the most, that scratch our consciences and our sensibilities, but it is the last parameter to flex. We will see them reduce substantially in the next ten days. “
On another front, the scientific director of the Spallanzani Institute in Rome, Giuseppe Ippolito, intervened: “Those who have had Covid -he said- should not be vaccinated against the disease because they have developed natural antibodies, if they will have to check the level of these antibodies. And when these go down, you can reconsider a vaccine. ”
