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Less than forty-eight hours after the administration of the second dose of vaccine the manufacturing company, Pfizer, announces a slowdown of three to four weeks in deliveries of the product to Europe, after reaching an agreement for 300 million additional doses. A low blow.
A generalized slowdown of the operation that, by the end of January, should have completed the immunization of all those vaccinated since December 27. Three weeks have passed since that post-Christmas Sunday the drug was started, the minimum time for withdrawal. While the maximum interval between the two administrations has been moved from WHO to 48 days.
Here is the motivation of the American giant that came to us from the Berlin government: improve production capacities. Right now? That will increase, according to the announcement, from 1.3 to 2 billion doses per year. Without going into details of the times. In fact, it is not clear how long it will be before Pfizer can return to its normal work. For all countries, there will certainly be a significant reduction in supply. In Italy it is estimated at 29%. France announces a “sharp decline”.
Pfizer stops, vaccine alert. In Italy, the program for the second withdrawal is at risk
The renewal
“The European Commission and the States – in the words of the German Ministry of Health – have been informed that Pfizer will not be able to fully meet the delivery quantities promised for the next three to four weeks due to the plant renovations.” of Puurs in Belgium ‘. The one that supplies all of Europe and even Canada where, according to Supply Minister Anita Anand, “everything will be fine in March.”
In the same hours, a cry of alarm comes out of our Regions because stocks have been exhausted and should affect that 30% of the products reserved for security and the president of the EU Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, confirms her yes to vaccination passport “, to the idea – he says – of having a document of mutual recognition that certifies anti-Covid vaccines, making life easier for Europeans.” Rejected by WHO.
Von der Leyen herself called the CEO of the company. It somehow reassured her, saying that all doses planned for the EU will be delivered in the first quarter. The Health Ministers of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Sweden denounced, by joint letter, an “unacceptable” situation, which undermines the very “credibility of the vaccination process”. Meanwhile, production (250 million doses in six months) of the vaccine has also been authorized in Germany, at the plant owned by the German company Biontech in Marburg. The beginning in February.
For the moment, however, the guarantees collide with the cautious optimism of those still waiting for the first dose. «At the end of the month or the beginning of February the vaccination phase of those over eighty will begin. For now, vaccination schedules are respected and even anticipated. We will not be able to achieve herd immunity with vaccines before 6-8 months, but the first objective is to end the epidemic ”, announced yesterday afternoon Gianni Rezza, general director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health. And now? Now everyone will have to be patient. In several Regions, hence the alarm, Pfizer-BioNTech is running out and, if necessary, vials of the other available vaccine, Moderna, will be used. It’s compatible. The second dose prepares for today, with different schedules, about a million people. In fact, there were many administrations from December 27 to mid-January. The exact number is 1,002,044, 71.1 percent of the doses given so far. In the lead are Lombardy with 150,442 doses, Emilia Romagna (102,729), Campania (96,817), Veneto (96,247) and Lazio (90,407).
Sabotage
There is no shortage of sabotage in this war against the virus. Like that of the hackers who stole documents about the Pfizer vaccine from the EMA, the European Medicines Agency, and published them manipulated online. They were altered before they were released, in a way that undermined confidence in vaccines.
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