Ricciardi: “We can vaccinate half of Italians in June”

12/31/2020 Health, Italy



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Arrival day in Italy around 470 thousand doses of the anti-Covid vaccine, it seems that good news abounds. “For the moment we’re able to vaccinate about half of Italians, or about 20 million, in the first 6 months of 2021“This was stated by Walter Ricciardi, advisor to the Minister of Health and professor of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at Cattolica.

The deferral of planned doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine “In fact, it will be offset by more doses of Pfizer. Of the 100 million dosi Pfizer additional options offered by the EU – notes – 13.4 million will go to Italy».

The doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, Ricciardi said, “will be late, but they will be offset by the doses from Pfizer.” Considering the 13.4 million additional doses of Pfizer from the EU, it clarifies “we will have almost 30 million doses of Pfizer in the first 6 months of 2021 instead of the 16 million doses expected“To these doses are added the 6 million doses provided by Moderna:” With these vaccines, we hope to vaccinate about half of the Italians who can be vaccinated, because obviously they must be excluded – he concludes – all children under age 16 who are not vaccinated».