They arrived on Christmas day passing the Brenner pass shortly after 9.30 in the morning. The first doses of the anti Covid vaccine have been in Italy since yesterday. The truck that brought them from Pfizer Biontech headquarters in Belgium was escorted by police and carabinieri. The vials are at the Spallanzani Institute in Rome where they are stored in special cold rooms. For conservation it is necessary that the temperature is -70 degrees centigrade.
There are 9,750 doses that will be administered to doctors, nurses and health personnel from tomorrow, December 27, European V-day, onwards. It will be a demonstration vaccination. The healthcare professionals who will receive the vaccine have spontaneously booked.
In Rome, at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, it will be the turn of a 29-year-old nurse who works in the hospital, but has also cared for many elderly people at home in recent months. Is called Claudia Alivernini. “Getting vaccinated is an act of love and responsibility towards the community”, he said, “I proudly represent all the health workers who, like me, have been on the front line during this pandemic.”
It will always be a military detachment to carry the containers, criobox to maintain the correct storage temperature of the vials, in the various regions. One part will go with 5 planes to reach those farthest from Rome, the other lots will go by land with 60 cars and 250 soldiers.
In the first phase there will be 300 administration points mainly in hospitals. Later, from January when larger quantities arrive, the vaccines will be stored at the military airport of Pratica di Mare. It will be the logistical base of distribution when the vaccination points will be 1500. To these will be added mobile units to reach those who cannot leave their homes. In each region, centers for storage and conservation have been identified (here the Lombardy case).
The first to be released is Pfizer, whose vaccine it works with the messenger RNA technique: carries genetic information into the cells that “teaches” the organism to respond to the attack of the infectious agent Sars-CoV-2. Where the vaccine has already been administered (United Kingdom, Serbia, Israel, USA, but also Saudi Arabia) there have been minimal side effects: in less than 4% of cases, muscle pain, fatigue, fever, headache were observed. It can be used over the age of 16.
The doses will be 300 thousand arriving in January and then up to 26 million during the year. On January 6, the European Medicines Agency is expected to approve Moderna’s authorization request. AstraZeneca vaccine examination is expected for January 12.
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