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The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, illustrated today in Parliament the vaccination plan against the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus and against the Covid pandemic: an effort, he said, unprecedented from the organizational, logistical and health point of view.
The illustrated plan starts, the minister explained, from a basic message of reasoned trust: from January we will have the first vaccines, and progressively we will be able to vaccinate a growing number of Italians. However, Speranza has asked for caution since at this time – he recalled – no vaccine has received approval from the European Medicines Agency or the Food and Drug Administration of the United States.
In case the authorizations arrive – e the first installments are at the end of December for the Pfizer vaccine, and early January for the one prepared by Moderna: Ema’s hearings on the third vaccine that has been much talked about in recent weeks, the one prepared by Oxford and AstraZeneca are not currently scheduled – the government has the intention to start the vaccination plan immediately.
Speranza said, first of all, that IThe vaccination campaign will be impressiveAnd that we should avoid getting there with troubled healthcare facilities and personnel involved on the front lines in fighting Covid. This is a decisive step, because it puts, in Hope’s perspective, even more pressure on the decisions that will be made tomorrow, with the Dpcm, to try to lower the curve of infections by coronavirus. If in January we were to face a third wave – which, Speranza said, just around the corner, if we let our guard down – the vaccination campaign would start with serious difficulties, with hospitals and doctors working against Covid.
The second premise of the minister was an application to the oppositions: The total success of the vaccination campaign, he said, must represent a fundamental objective of the entire country: we cannot allow ourselves divisions, we need a country pact, with everyone inside.
Here are the details of the plan:
The vaccine will be free for everyone.
The purchase of the vaccine, Speranza said, is centralized: the vaccine will be delivered free to all Italians, as it is a common good.
How many doses will Italy have available?
Italy, Speranza said, has opted for 202 million doses of the vaccine: although two doses are needed for each vaccine, as seems likely, and even without knowing for the moment the duration of immunity guaranteed by the vaccine, we can vaccinate all , reiterated the minister. Following the principle of maximum precaution, Italy has signed all the contracts that the EU has concluded.
When will I start vaccinating?
The campaign will start as soon as there are authorizations and will end in the fourth quarter of last year; The second and third quarters, between spring and summer 2021, will be the heart of the vaccination campaign.
Who will get vaccinated first?
What categories will we begin to vaccinate, as a country? The choice, Speranza said, was not easy, but the categories will be these:
1. health and social workers (1.4 million people)
2. RS to residents and personal: (570 thousand people)
3. people over 80 years old: (4 million, plus 13 million people between 60 and 79 years old)
December 2, 2020 (change December 2, 2020 | 10:54)
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