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When will I have to get vaccinated? This is the question that millions of Italians have been asking for a few days at the gates of 2021 that, if everything goes as we expect, it should represent the year of the exit of the pandemic. The first doses were administered yesterday, December 27: this is not the beginning of what has been called the largest mass vaccination campaign in history. Italy aims for a coverage of 80 percent and therefore has opted for 202 million doses of serum, 13.4% of the EU, “enough to potentially vaccinate the entire population and maintain supplies.” In addition to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, important innovations are coming from the UK for the one developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford: it is “95% effective and 100% capable of eliminating severe symptoms that lead to hospitalizations” for Covid-19.
Anti-covid vaccine: when it will correspond to each category
But, what are the categories that will be vaccinated as a priority? The first approximately 10 million doses (8,749 million from Pfizer and 1,346,000 from Moderna as soon as Ema is free) in the first three months of 2021 will be used to vaccinate the categories identified as priority, that is, health and social workers and workers. health (1,404,037 people), staff and guests of residential centers for the elderly (570,287) and people over 80 years (4,442,048). Immediately afterwards, it will be the turn of men and women between 60 and 79 years (equal to 13,432,005 people) and the population with at least one chronic comorbidity (7,403,578). In spring and summer (second and third trimesters) it will depend on teachers and school personnel, and other categories of the population belonging to essential services such as the police, prison staff and community places. In the fourth quarter everyone else.
The vaccines to be distributed in Italy
Italy will receive a total of 26.92 million doses of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine, of which 8.749 million in the first quarter, 8.1 in the second quarter, 10.1 in the third. The acceleration of the European Medicines Agency for the vaccine of the American company Moderna, whose green light is scheduled for January 6, will bring 10.8 million doses: 1.4 in the first quarter, 4.7 in the second and many others in the third. To the 38 million of certain Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will be added those of AstraZeneca, 40 million doses throughout the EU.
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