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Rome, March 21, 2021 – How is the campaign for anti-Covid vaccinations in Italy? Quite slow (here the dashboard in real time): despite the best intentions, even this week the threshold of administrations it will not be able to go beyond 200 thousand a day (What happens if the vaccine is rejected? Here the card). The thing is, there are not enough vials to process more. Ruthless comparisons with other countries: the Lazio, one of the most virtuous Italian regions, carried out 800 thousand vaccines, that is, approximately the amount of Britain in one day. At USA A total of 124 million doses have already been distributed and Israel has vaccinated almost half of the population and is emerging from the emergency: today only 4 deaths (here the data of the Coronavirus in the world).
Optimistic hope: “For the summer a significant improvement”
The efforts, the constant increase in vaccine facilities, the arrival of new doctors ready for injections and soon also the participation of pharmacies, are still not enough. So, waiting for the serum Johnson and Johnson and achieve the goal of 500 thousand vaccines a day from the Figliuolo floor, an attempt is made to ascend with the arrival of more 333 thousand doses of Moderna and new stocks of Pfizer expected, while others will arrive next Wednesday 279mila da AstraZeneca.
As to SputnikAccording to the European Commissioner in charge of the vaccination campaign, Thierry Breton, the European Union “will not need the Russian Sputnik vaccine at all. Priority should be given to vaccines produced on European territory.”
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4 million doses missing
However, the shipment numbers achieved so far are still too low compared to the figures updated in early March: according to the first quarter forecast lists, at least 4 million doses would be missing, although more 2 million as of April 3 (To date, 15,694,998 million would have had to arrive in total). All this despite the inoculation capacity in the country – also thanks to the acceleration of the Covid Emergency Commissioner, Francesco Figliuolo (who was vaccinated yesterday, along with Curcio, with Astrazeneca) – it is already close to double the amount of serum available.
The governors make themselves heard: “With an email to the Liguria Region, some 60 thousand doses of AstraZeneca have been cut, that is, 60% of the deliveries in April, blowing up all the programming,” complains the Ligurian Giovanni Toti.
Ema: three more vaccines on the agenda
Pretty optimistic Marco Cavaleri, responsible for vaccines Ema, who in ‘Che tempo che fa’ explains: “In the coming months we will see a massive increase in production. After Johnson & Johnson, the last one we authorized, we have three vaccines that we are analyzing – Cavaleri announces – one is to Curevac, for which a large clinical study is being carried out, then the one of Novavax for which, however, there is some problem with the production and the third vaccine is that Sputnik that the review of the cycle has begun with which we will also carry out inspections in Russia in April, both with regard to the production and the clinical study, and we will try to understand by when we will have all the data that will be necessary to eventually approve this vaccine as well “.
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The new forces in the field
Meanwhile, the hiring of staff continues. The Ministry of Health is ready to bring new forces to the field, with 164,800 medicine (42,000 are family members, 38,000 graduate, 7,000 pediatricians, 14,800 outpatient specialists, 63,000 dentists), up to 270 thousand nurses and 19 thousand pharmacies involved. But in the latter case, the National Federation of Medical Orders bets: “The doctor must be present in all vaccination centers, including pharmacies and parapharmacies” to obtain informed consent and guarantee intervention in case of need.
Focus / What we know about reserve lists
Regions in no particular order
The inoculations travel in each case in alternate phases, with scattered numbers also regarding the immunized categories: Tuscany for example – denounces Stefano Mugnai, vice president of the Forza Italia Group in the Chamber – is behind (27%) in those over 80 while others have achieved a coverage of 40-50% of the elderly.
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There is also one planned for this. national platform to support the Regions for reserves, connecting the different territories and that can homogenize the campaign throughout the country.
“It is not possible to have 21 regional health systems that they go in no particular order and that a platform dedicated to vaccination did not work, considering that there are months of work behind, “thundered the Deputy Minister of Health. Pierpaolo Sileri, especially after the case in Lombardy For him Aria computer system malfunction and sms not received for calls to the Cremona hub. However, Sileri remains convinced that “by the end of summer I believe that the campaign will be complete for those who wish to be vaccinated as long as there are no variants that circumvent the existing vaccines”.
Bianchi: great campaign for the school
“I think it is important that our teachers feel calm and know how to calm down. I ask that a great vaccination campaign be carried out, which should be the sign with which the school participates in the ball of life in the country; others must decide what vaccines we do, we are confident, but we have to go back to work in complete peace of mind, ”says the Minister of Education. Patrizio bianchi What’s the weather like.
Meanwhile they seem fears about AstraZeneca disappeared, after the green light of the EMA to restart. The same president of the Cts and of the Superior Council of Health, Franco Locatelli, reiterates: “it is a safe vaccine from the age of 18 and there is no reason to doubt, just look at the figures in Great Britain where ten million have already received it and mortality has been reduced by 90%. The strong message is let’s get vaccinated “.
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