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The number of infected by coronavirus lengthens moment by moment while the times to be vaccinated seem to be reducing. “In the best of hypotheses, the first 30 million doses to the EU will arrive at the end of the year, if it is December or January it will change little,” said Piero Di Lorenzo, president and CEO of Irbm Pomezia, the center that developed together with the University of Oxford, the candidate vaccine produced by AstraZeneca. And three million doses will be destined for Italy.
Good news coming on the eve of the new territorial closures, which will test the patience of Italians and will bring thousands of companies to their knees, which survived the spring closure. Di Lorenzo, speaking to the microphones of the broadcast that Italy has awakened on Radio Cusano, also spoke about the times, which are now fundamental. “We hope that phase three of the clinical trial will conclude at the end of November, at which time the word will be passed on to the regulatory agencies – he said – Normal times could be 6 to 8 months, but in such an important situation I think the The agencies will try to reduce them to give an answer in a few weeks. This does not mean that the vaccine is not safe. “Only those of the normal bureaucratic process will be limited, while those related to scientific controls will be strictly maintained. Condicio sine qua non es to be able to get to the end of the trials without adverse events. “If this is the case, it will take 3 to 4 weeks for regulatory agencies and the first 20-30 million doses will be delivered to the EU before the end of the year – The head of the Irbm stressed – If instead of 4 weeks they will take twice as long, then it will come in January ».
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca expects the investigational vaccine to be in an advanced stage of distribution by the end of the first quarter of next year. “There will be three billion doses of the vaccine that I am sure will be effective,” explained Josep Baselga, director of cancer research and development at AstraZeneca. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte also spoke yesterday on the same topic. “The Ministry of Health is working on a vaccine distribution plan,” he recalled. “We are sure that we will have the first doses of the vaccine in December, but we must understand that there will be a few million doses per country, so we will have to do a shared plan at European level to intervene first in the most fragile groups and gradually in the other categories, such as the police. To see the effects we have to wait until spring when all the doses are expected to arrive. At the end of spring we have the confidence of having accepted this situation and we hope that a few months before we will get out of the most worrying curve. “But the virologist Roberto Burioni, from the Vita Salute San Raffaele University in Milan does not believe it.” I understand the need to motivate citizens in the hard sacrifices that they are necessary – he said, commenting on Conte’s words – but it is not possible to treat them like 5-year-olds who believe in Santa Claus ”.
