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NEW YORK – Trial progress that allows you to shorten time and deliver an effective vaccine earlier than expected? Or a political move to convince Americans, on the eve of the vote, that the war on coronavirus is already won? This will be there october surprise of the 2020 elections? The letter (dated August 27, but only released yesterday) with which the CDC (Disease Control and Prevention) of Atlanta, the federal agency for the protection of health, asked the public health offices of Every state and city in the US preparing to receive, store and distribute vaccines by the end of October, is generating hope and suspicion. Also because it is accompanied by an invitation to all entities to be fully operational on November 1: that is, two days before the White House vote.
In mid-July, three of the six vaccines approved by the project (Operation Warp Speed) launched by the government to accelerate the search for cures for the coronavirus have entered the third and final phase of testing. A phase that should not end before the end of December: these are the indications that almost all the experts have provided so far. But now Anthony Fauci, the White House virologist often at odds with Trump, says that if the evidence proceeds very positively, the presiding authority can authorize an early termination of the trial. In fact, there is a scientific committee at the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases that can legally make this decision if it is convinced that it is an effective and safe vaccine.
Trump’s opponents are obviously suspicious of a political operation Also because during the Republican Party convention the scenario of a vaccine spread in a short time was evoked several times by the president himself and also by his daughter Ivanka who from the stage of the event had strongly emphasized that the drug will arrive that will defeat the Covid 19. very very soon. Fauci denies, however, that scientists can make such an important and delicate decision based on political pressure: we, he adds, will have a moral obligation to start distributing the vaccine as soon as possible, if we are convinced that it works and it is not harmful. The CDC letter was signed by the institute’s director, Robert Redfield, who also ended up in the president’s crosshairs on several occasions. However, it should be noted that an invitation to prepare to distribute the vaccine does not necessarily mean that the operation will actually begin at the end of October.
Just by launching Operation Warp Speed months ago with the objective To distribute 300 million doses of the vaccine in the United States by January 2021, the government has realized that, in addition to medical, industrial and logistical, bureaucratic and regulatory difficulties and rigidity must also be overcome. Now the CDC is asking all local governments to remove these obstacles in the coming weeks and organize logistical structures that, if the vaccine arrives, cannot be improvised. The government has already asked industries to start producing the vaccines before testing is complete, assuming the financial risk of any testing failure. But, once approved and produced, these vaccines will need to be distributed, stored, and administered in accordance with the priorities established by the federal agency in its letter: health personnel first, then other essential service workers, then guests and staff. from rest homes for the elderly and security services, finally the rest of the population.
Advance in the organizational plan, certainly appropriate, Since, in a country where public health facilities are very scarce, it is necessary to organize the storage of vaccines at very low temperatures and for long periods: probably, in fact, each citizen will receive at least two doses, with several weeks of difference. other. Of course, politically, any suspicion that the acceleration also serves to send a legitimate message to voters: so far, despite the president’s triumphant rhetoric, the government’s handling of the pandemic has been disastrous according to the most critical critics. severe, very incomplete according to the most serious commenters. moderate. With the coronavirus spreading again in the summer (yesterday alone, the US recorded 1,067 deaths from Covid-19, including the first among veterans of the Sturgis motorcycle rally) and the appearance of new outbreaks (in Iowa until 30 percent of patients tested positive for coronavirus yesterday), Trump has abandoned any containment strategy by blocking: he is now pinning all his hopes on the vaccine, given that even the treatments he promotes, from hydroxychloroquine to plasma, have result ineffective.
hence pressure is likely for a full strikerabout vaccines. And a leader who focuses heavily on communication and is used to giving his own personal interpretation of reality will surely be tempted to make an announcement in style. mission accomplished before the vote.
September 3, 2020 (change September 3, 2020 | 03:16)
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