Vaccines, Astrazeneca cuts dose again: -15% this week. Zingaretti: “Very serious, the uncertainty makes everything difficult”

Another cut in vaccine dose, yet another setback for the administration campaign, which has just been teachers me police. The pharmaceutical company Astrazeneca announced that this week reduce deliveries by 15% of the anti-Covid drug in Italy. As learned, the Regions received the communication only during these hours. Furious the secretary of the Democratic Party and governor of Lazio Nicola Zingaretti: “Very serious the sudden reduction in the delivery of vaccines against Astrazeneca. We are doing our best but with this uncertainty everything is more difficult, ”he writes on Facebook. The head of the Nazarene then asks the government to protect “the national interests and the programming of the Regions. Meanwhile, let’s get ready for the production of vaccines validated by Ema and Aifa by our companies ”.

The cut to the vials, already reduced by 60% in Europe for the first quarter, is confirmed in all Regions. “They have given us one reduction of 9 thousand doses of the Astrazeneca vaccine for the next installments and this is a bad news“, Declared the Lazio Health Minister Alessio D’Amato. “I wonder how they can reconcile alleged broker deals proposals to some regions in parallel markets for the Astrazeneca vaccine with the clear reduction? ”, He adds, referring to the negotiations carried out in Veneto by Luca zaia. Same situation in Emilia romagna: “I come these days AstraZeneca with a new reduction, several tens of thousands were supposed to arrive, but there is a reduction of 4-5 thousand doses. Not like the other times but in any case there are no more signs, we hope that from next week the rhythm will change ”, explained the regional councilor for Health Policies. Raffaele donini. The consequence is inevitable slowdown in the vaccination campaign for school personnel, which will start in Emilia-Romagna Monday with reservations. “There will be technical times for the organization but above all there are not many vaccines – explained Donini – from AstraZeneca we have a few tens of thousands of doses. So for now we are still in a pretty slow pace regarding the administration with this vaccine ”.

Regarding the drug produced by the American Pfizer, instead, there is good news. The company “will also send data on the maintenance of his vaccine “a more manageable temperatures compared to those currently planned, announced the director of the Vaccines Department of the European Medicines Agency, Marco Cavaleri, interviewed in Rainews24. Yesterday the company announced the possibility of storing the vaccine at less extreme temperatures than those initially indicated by –70 degree, between -25 degrees Celsius and -15 degrees. In addition, in the coming days the new guidelines agreed with the US FDA “to facilitate new vaccines will be published against variants; the Commission will streamline the administrative process to approve these new vaccines ”, added Cavaleri, clarifying what the president of the European Commission has already announced. Ursula von der Leyen. “We will need more simplified studies and in a smaller group of vaccinated subjects, that will be enough for us to obtain authorization ”.