Italy covid vaccine between license and obligation for age groups

Published on: 11/20/2020 6:45 AM

Covid vaccine, we started in January between the license and the ‘obligation to gangs’ hypothesis based on age. The plan takes shape, as commissioner Domenico Arcuri explained. “We are developing a vaccine plan, the first will be from Pfizer and Italy will receive 3.4 million doses in the second half of January, which will be used to vaccinate 1.7 million Italians because each person will have to receive two doses. “He said. The Pfizer product requires special storage conditions, with temperatures of approximately -70 / -80 degrees. The refrigerators” are there, “Arcuri said.” Last Tuesday we sent a letter to the Regions in which we asked them to indicate for tomorrow the destinations where it is considered more profitable to obtain the vaccines. The distribution will be made directly by Pfizer “, he added. 2020 “, said Arcuri, hoping that” in the course of 2021 the administration of the vaccine will be carried out on a large scale. “Arcuri stressed in any case that at the moment” we do not know how many Italians will want to be vaccinated. “We are designing a computer platform that will It will allow managing the verification of the administration to know the names of the people who have made the vaccine and where they did it, to follow the traceability of the assets in the area ”, Arcuri said, answering a question about the hypothesis of a license. The solution “will be possible and the Ministry of Health will establish the modalities.” He went further than the Deputy Minister of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri: “A mandatory age group must be included,” he said speaking in Piazzapulita. The scheme “must follow that of the influenza vaccine”, with special attention to the frail and elderly, those most exposed to the risks of the coronavirus. For “herd protection,” he said, choosing a different definition than “herd immunity,” a large part of the population must be vaccinated. For Professor Andrea Crisanti, the 70% threshold must be exceeded to achieve effective results. Also in light of these considerations, Sileri reiterated, “we would need an obligation linked to age groups. In my opinion we will need all of 2021 for vaccination ”.