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“We don’t care much about primroses, tents. If they send us the doses, we are ready to vaccination thousands and thousands of people without problems. But now I fear that they will arrive in fits and starts and after this symbolic departure on December 27 we will have to wait until January 15 ”, responds the Lazio councilor. Alessio D’Amato, to those who ask why too many pieces of the organizing machinery of the great mass vaccination have not yet been installed. Applies to Lazio, applies to all of Italy: 9,750 doses will arrive first, a minuscule amount just to start the day of the vaccine at the same time as the main European countries.
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THE SITUATION
1.8 million should arrive by the end of January, but to date the supply schedule has yet to be deciphered. Yesterday, Commissioner Domenico Arcuri said: “Pfizer has ensured that another 450,000 doses will arrive in the week of December 28, brought directly by the company to the 300 administration points chosen with Autonomous Regions and Provinces.” However, it will be a slow start, while the UK and the US are already far ahead, with much larger numbers of people already vaccinated. There is a double problem, observes the president of the Order of Doctors of Rome, Antonio Magi: «If the flow of supplies is not constant, there is the risk of administering the first dose without being sure that after 21 days we will have the second. To date, there is still no detailed calendar, the availability of health workers in the public sector has been included, but not those in the private sector. Last concern: the vials, with five doses, must be carefully prepared, diluted. Is not easy. Where is the staff training?
MOBILIZATION
Adolfo Pagnanelli, director of the Casilino Polyclinic in Rome, lives the battle with Covid on the front line. And he is concerned: «The operators do not see an extraordinary mobilization, as it should be in an emergency. We need to involve many more doctors and nurses as vaccinators. Otherwise, the times will be very long and we cannot afford it. In summary: after the day of the vaccination in favor of the camera, the unknowns will remain: is the mechanism greased? For this first mini-supply, the Army must guarantee security. Well what will happen when instead of 9,750 doses, hopefully millions come in? The plan for the first mission: Pfizer trucks will depart from Puurs, Belgium. When they cross the Italian borders, they will be escorted by the police to Rome, in Spallanzani, where there are four super refrigerators that guarantee a temperature below minus 70 degrees Celsius, essential for the preservation of Pfizer’s product.
PLAN
They could arrive at Christmas and already in Santo Stefano they will be delivered in 21 sites throughout Italy thanks to the commitment of the Ministry of Defense with the Air Force and the Navy for Operation Eos. More in detail: of the 9,750 initial doses, a part will be transported to Pratica di Mare where 5 aircraft (two C27Js from the Air Force, two Dornier Do.228 from the Army and one P-180 from the Navy) will reach the most important destinations. far away. The rest will travel thanks to 60 cars and 250 soldiers. “A unanimous response from the defense,” says Minister Lorenzo Guerini. Among the first to request the Army’s participation was the coordinator of the CTS, Agostino Miozzo. One question remains: if this deployment of forces is necessary for 9,750 vaccines (0.5 percent of the doses planned in January), what will happen when millions of doses arrive? Another phrase from Arcuri is not very encouraging: “I don’t know if all regions will be able to get vaccinated on the 27th. I know that the Pfizer vaccine can remain 4 days at certain temperatures, so at 30 you have to do it, but I think it will happen sooner” . “To manage the maxi vaccination phase, a call has been published, which should be used to search for 12 thousand nurses and 3 thousand doctors. But even in this case, times seem too slow. To date it would be necessary to have staff trained delegate to this type of service, a list of people to be vaccinated with a defined schedule for the first and second doses. All this, many doctors explain, has not yet arrived. And the departure of December 27 will be important as a way of public awareness, but more symbolic than real: in the United States more than half a million people have already been vaccinated, in the United Kingdom a few fewer, even Canada has already left.
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