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Covid, late vaccines: this is how herd immunity slips

Covid vaccines late. “20% fewer vials will arrive than announced “, explained the Commissioner for Emergency Domenico Arcuri, responding to the Vaccination Centers of various Italian regions, in difficulty due to the lack of precision syringes, necessary to extract the right dose of vaccine to be injected and above all to obtain six doses from each vial and not five.

The point is that Pfizer Biontech has announced supply cuts and AstraZeneca has also done the same thing by declaring a problem in the production chain.

A framework that requires a reassessment of the vaccination plan in Italy and Europe and which for our country moves forward the goal of achieving herd immunity by September, with 70% of Italians vaccinated.

«The slowdowns in vaccine deliveries constitute serious contractual violations, which produce enormous damage to Italy and to other European countries, with direct repercussions on the life and health of citizens and on our economic-social fabric already strongly tested by a year of pandemic. We will use all the tools and all legal initiatives, as we are already doing with Pfizer-Biontech, to claim compliance with contractual commitments and to protect our national community in all forms “, he wrote on Facebook he first tale talking about AstraZeneca and specifying that “if the 60% reduction of the doses that will be distributed in the first quarter were confirmed it would mean that in Italy they would be delivered 3.4 million doses instead of 8 million».

Following these delays, the vaccination plan for those over 80 will have to be revised. The latter are expected to be vaccinated shortly but the calendar could slip until March. “We can say that at the end of January Italy should have about 2.5 million doses available that both first immunizations and calls are needed, ”explained the president of the Higher Health Council Franco Locatelli. “To date, there is no evidence that the available vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, do not offer coverage against variants of the virus. So the message right now is absolutely reassuring ».

The virus continues to run inside our country even if the latest monitoring by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità has detected a slight decrease in incidence. «We must not relax measures: when we loosen them the virus starts running again, it’s a stop and go », commented the Director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health Gianni Rezza, at the press conference at the ministry on the weekly monitoring data on the progress of the epidemic. “We have to be very quick in identifying variants and taking mobility restriction measures in places where this happens, so you have to keep your guard very high».

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