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Rome, December 25, 2020 – The Vaccine for COVID-19 is in Italy. The trucks containing the cold stores (at -75 °) with the first 9,750 vials of the drug Pfizer have crossed the border with Brenner yesterday at 9:30 in the morning and they were escorted by the carabinieri to Spallanzani in Rome. About 250 soldiers will transport the doses to less than 300 kilometers tomorrow, on the much announced Vaccine Day. Everyone else will pass through the center of Pratica di Mare from where, with 5 aircraft (two C27Js from the Air Force, two Dornier Do. 228s from the Army and a P-180 from the Navy) they will be transferred to the rest of the regions.
Subsequent doses will arrive after December 27 directly from the Pfizer factory in 300 places of administration indicated by the commissioner for the emergency Domenico Arcuri. And, at that time, the actual vaccination campaign will begin.
Who goes first
But what is the criteria for administering anti-Covid vaccines? That is, who will be vaccinated first and who will end up on the waiting list? On the website of the National Health Service you can read, under the heading “Identification of the categories to be vaccinated with priority in the initial phase with limited availability of vaccines”: health and socio-health workers, residents and Rsa staff to the third Age.
Unsurprisingly, therefore, in the first row are health workers in the field, the elderly living in the RSA, the frail and those over 65, while in the last places are people who who fell ill with Coronavirus, were later cured. and they already have antibodies.
On the symbolic day tomorrow, the first to be vaccinated in Rome will be the 29-year-old nurse from Spallanzani, Claudia Alivernini. In Lombardy, on the other hand, it will be the turn of two workers from Niguarda in Milan: the social and health worker. Adele Gelfo and the cleaner Grace lends – and Annalisa Malara, the anesthetist who discovered patient one, Mattia, at the Codogno hospital. First woman vaccinated also in Naples: the dose will be administered to Filomena Ricciardi, Cardarelli emergency doctor.
Vaccines, surveys and herd immunity
Premise: the Covid vaccine is not mandatory in Italy (as in the rest of Europe) and therefore it will be administered on a voluntary basis. The extraordinary curator Domenico Arcuri assures: “We will achieve herd immunity in 9 months, at the end of the summer.” Of course, 42 million Italians have to be vaccinated: 70% of the population. According to the latest Euromedia survey, as the so-called Vaccine Day of December 27 (tomorrow) approaches, the proportion of those who declare they want to be vaccinated against Covid-19 increases: 50.7% of Italians, from In fact, they have intention to make the vaccine, a sharp increase compared to 49.8% at the end of November and 50.4% at December 14.
Sileri: I’ll get the vaccine when it’s my turn
“I will get the vaccine when it is my turn – says Special Commissioner Sileri – I am not over 65 years old and I am not a fragile person. If today I were a surgeon in the operating room, obviously I would have joined the vaccine immediately, now I will do it when it is going to touch me, among other things, having had Covid, I will be among the last to do it. But when it comes to me I sure will. Which? What the state will happen to me. We have to get vaccinated to get out of this nightmare. lifetime”.
Aifa: don’t buy the vaccine on the web
No to the private purchase of the Covid-19 vaccine on the internet or through other channels, because it can be “dangerous as well as ineffective.” While the vaccine itself does not cause disease or DNA alterations. To clarify, it is the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) that has published a document on the web portal that answers the 35 most frequent questions about the Pfizer vaccine authorized yesterday in Italy. The Faqs range from composition to possible adverse effects, through effectiveness and directions on who can get vaccinated.
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