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In the last two weeks of December, Italians, but really all Europeans, will see the British and Americans beginning to get vaccinated. But we will have to wait, because in the best of cases only in the first days of February the operation will also begin in Italy and in the rest of the European Union. How is it possible? The day that will remain in the history books, with the first vaccine anti COVID-19 licensed by a great western nation such as the United Kingdom less than a year into the pandemicWell, the ruling by the British Health Minister, Matt Hancock, explains how in the race for science there is also an important factor linked to geopolitical balances: “Thanks to Brexit we are no longer linked to the European agency, the EMA, and we are able to make a decision based on the green light from our national regulator, a world-class regulator, not at the pace of the Europeans who move a little slower. ”Sure, right? The European Union is slow, Brits without EU traps are more efficient: Obviously it is a propaganda thesis, but it has its effect. Immediately came the response from EMA (the European drug agency, in charge of approving Covid-19 vaccines for the European Union): our longer approval procedure is more appropriate as it is based on more evidence and required more controls than the procedure of emergency chosen by Great Britain (Reuters reports).
According to the British government, on the contrary, Brexit allows the United Kingdom to have the vaccine available before the European Union, since Ema (the EU regulatory authority) will only decide on December 29 on the product developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. And the Americans? The green light from the FDA, not only for Pfizer-BioNTech, but also for the Moderna vaccine, is expected within this week. For this reason, Unites Airlines cargo flights have been traveling for days between various points in the United States to deliver the first vials and also in America it is assumed that vaccination of healthcare workers will begin next week. The same goes for the UK, which for days had pre-alerted hospitals, warning that they were ready to start vaccinating doctors and nurses.
Vaccine Pfizer, Great Britain approves mass vaccination – available next week
Obviously, the longer time required by Ema to examine the material sent by Pfizer (but also by Moderna) is not in itself a negative fact, because in any case there will be more attention in evaluating all the data of the experimentation. There remains another paradox: the United Kingdom, but also Italy, had high expectations for the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, in collaboration with Irbm of Pomezia, produced and marketed by a partly British multinational, AstraZeneca. It is a vaccine that you have already given excellent efficacy results (at least 70 percent) and that it has fewer distribution problems than Pfizer (it does not need to be stored below minus 70 degrees), but experimentation was necessary and this will lengthen the times by a few weeks. . So today the United Kingdom has authorized a vaccine produced by the American Pfizer in collaboration with the German BioNTech (another paradox, Germany will have to wait like the rest of the European Union for the times of the EMA).
The United Kingdom and the USA will begin in the coming days with the vaccination of health workers, Italy and the rest of the EU will do the same, but at least four weeks late, if not more. In this way, it seems likely that achieving widespread control of the pandemic could happen earlier in the UK and the US. Meanwhile, China, where positive cases are very rare, has already started vaccinating certain categories. people with products developed by large local pharmaceutical companies. The Russian Sputnik vaccine is also being tested in India (where AstraZeneca’s vaccine will also be produced) and even in an EU country like Hungary. The great geopolitical game of vaccines on the international chessboard has just begun.
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