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Lazio must reach 60,000 vaccinations a day, today it travels around 26,000. Lombardy should reach 120,000 but it is 37,000. Veneto is targeting 42,500 and is doing just over half; from Campania 50,000 daily injections are expected, about 20,000. At the summit last night with the commissioner Francesco Figliuolo and the head of Civil Protection, Fabrizio Curcio, the larger Regions have ensured that they are prepared to achieve those goals. “The objectives are fine, but what they have to give us are the doses,” says Lazio Health Councilor Alessio D’Amato. Figliuolo and Curcio speak of 4 million vials that will arrive at the end of the month and another 8 in April. Total: 12 million. Many, many, but not enough to ensure 500 thousand total daily injections as envisaged by the plan (in fact, the scenario in which all regions reach the maximum number of hypothesized vaccines speaks of 513 thousand). Curcio, at the summit with those responsible for Civil Protection and Health of all the Regions, made it clear that it is not excluded that there may be additional doses (“I am not giving news, but you have to be prepared, it would be unacceptable to have the vials still in refrigerators because we can’t supply them all quickly “).
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CRITICAL ISSUES
However, during the summit, the Regions illustrated a list of problems to solve if you want to race. Small and big. Clarification: objectively the situation is improving, after the stop of AstraZeneca, we now travel an average of 260-270 thousand vaccines per day, we are still not at 300 thousand as the plan would like to date, but it is already an important speed. But there are some knots to solve. First of all: vaccinators. Abruzzo, for example, is waiting for the acceleration of 54 new operators, also because due to the strong pressure on hospitals due to the increase in cases, many doctors and nurses are employed on the front line in the ward. Piedmont explained that the large open vaccination center at Juventus Stadium only operates from 8 to 14 and is expected to have reinforcements from the Army. And both Piedmont and other Regions have pointed out an inconsistency in the legislation that causes the loss of precious resources: by law, despite its preparation, the Red Cross can carry out injections only inside the barracks. Another node: medical students. An enigma: Sicily has blocked recruitment because, according to a paragraph of the stability law, only the commissioner’s office can launch the recruitment call; Emilia-Romagna, on the other hand, did not stop and simply overcame the problem with a communication to the commissioner. A synthesis must be found because it is not possible that what is good on one side is not good on the other.
MATERIAL
Among other things, Sicilia has reported, there is also another obstacle: companies do not offer insurance coverage to apprentices. Even for the doctors and nurses who work at the Usca (the special units that go to the territory to follow Covid patients) a rule is needed because at the moment they can make swabs, but not vaccines.
From various regions, starting in Liguria, there have been reports of a slowdown in the supply of syringes or, in some cases, of the arrival of needles that are too short, but Figliuolo assured that all logistical physiological difficulties will be overcome. Bottom line: to date, half of the vaccines are being delivered compared to the more ambitious goal of half a million injections per day. At the same time, it is also necessary to ensure the continuous flow of doses: the other day some elderly people from Calabria, who were due to receive the withdrawal, were sent home and later removed because the vials had run out. Sicily and Piedmont explained that the refrigerators are now empty, even if at this time new supplies begin to be produced. Yesterday, General Figliuolo said: “Next week will arrive more than a million doses of Pfizer, more than 500,000 Moderna and more than a million and 300,000 AstraZenecas. And this is the prelude to having a massive influx of doses in April that will allow us to make the most of the hubs that we are going to build. There is no disparity between the regions ”.
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