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Next week theItaly will have 20% less than the vaccine doses of the Pfizer provided for by the initial agreements, which represents a new reduction of about one hundred thousand vials in addition to the 165 thousand (29%) already imposed unilaterally this week by the US pharmaceutical company. The Emergency Commissioner Domenico Arcuri confirms the cut announced to the Regions at the meeting two days ago, despite the fact that Pfizer has assured the European Union that as of next week deliveries will return instead “to 100% of weekly doses. ”
Doctors and nurses
“We are waiting for the communications to be followed by the forecasts and the forecasts that the deliveries will follow, which then correspond to the communications and forecasts,” replies the chopped commissioner, underlining that “he was forced to acknowledge with great regret that it is about of is not the case “. In figures, therefore, of the 465,660 doses planned for next week, slightly more than 372,500 will arrive. The effects of these cuts are already clear: the first is that most of the new cargo arriving from Monday will be destined for reinforcements: “if you have vaccinated 1.3 million people, you must be sure that you have 1 , 3 million doses to make the withdrawal “confirms Arcuri providing updated figures: 1,266,402 Italians immunized with the first dose, 18,871 with both. The second effect is the sharp slowdown in the campaign: from 80,000 people vaccinated per day (with a peak of 92,000) in the first 15 days, it has been reduced to 28,000.
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A two-thirds cut: “we slow down due to lack of raw materials.” Arcuri, however, has guaranteed that the disparities recorded last week will no longer exist, with regions that have had a cut of even more than 50% in deliveries and others that have not suffered any reduction, again decided independently by Pfizer. An element that led the president of Campania Vincenzo De Luca to speak of a “very serious and unacceptable” situation and to ask the commissioner for a line of “absolute fairness and objectivity”. The solution that was found during the summit between the government and the regions is to use the doses that will arrive from Monday, in the first place to compensate for “last week’s asymmetry.” The remaining amounts, on the other hand, will be distributed among all the Regions according to the criteria already established. Meanwhile, many territories have slowed down administration and several have suspended them, just to guarantee withdrawals.
Less vaccine doses
This is the case of Campania, Emilia Romagna (only 70,000 calls will be made until Sunday 24), Lazio, for 4 days, and Tuscany. However, starting next week, the Regions will be able to count on the first 2,679 doctors and nurses who will have to reinforce the team of administrators: the applications have been validated and will therefore be operational.
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Meanwhile, the wait is raised to January 29, when the EMA will have to pronounce on the green light for the vaccine AstraZeneca, because it is clear that this could be the turning point for mass vaccination to really begin. “We await the determinations”, admits Arcuri, although it will be necessary to understand if there will be conditions for the commercialization of the drug, from what age groups it can be allocated. However, we should not be caught off guard and that is why the tender for the construction of the temporary pavilions that should house citizens for vaccines, the ‘primroses’ designed by Stefano Boeri, has begun today. Companies must submit their offers before January 27, two days before the EMA is pronounced. And the hope is that by that day we can pick up where we left off: with the vaccination of those over 80 and the approximately 400 thousand Italian patients who are fragile, oncological, hematological and cardiological.
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