This time we needed a clear word. Maybe not dictated by pure and clear scientific reason (assuming it exists) but by political and human opportunity, yes. The EMA said that the Anglo-Swedish vaccine, in very rare cases, is linked to the onset of cerebral thrombosis. He also said this doesn’t happen with the second dose, but it can, albeit very rarely, happen with the first. he made it clear, above all, that there is no scientific reason in the world to ban the vaccine, ever. We know, in fact, that the coincidences between vaccination and thrombosis are so rare that it wouldn’t even be worth talking about if we weren’t in a very, very special and delicate situation. The same that would advise AIFA to give certain rules to the Italians. Instead, yesterday evening, Professor Franco Locatelli, on behalf of our health authorities, informed the nation that the Astra Zeneca vaccine is “not recommended” under 60 (the first dose). Yet this time the word “not recommended” is out of place.
Let’s start with Locatelli & Co’s reasons, which are all there, of course. There is no certainty. There have been cases of thromosis, but how much more frequent than the nosrmale? No one can say for sure if they are really related and how to the vaccine. And there are so few that Andrea Crisanti said it is more dangerous to take a plane. And on Reubblica Elena Dusi calculated that aspirin is more risky. In the face of millions and millions of inoculated doses. There is no doubt that today the enemy must be fought, and that the enemy is Covid. So we stick to our idea: Astra Zeneca all life. Medically speaking. But…
“Astrazeneca vaccine associated with development of thrombosis”
The pandemic is not just a medical matter. It is also the greatest social emergency of the century (for the moment). It struck the whole world to the heart, it has been the central theme of the public discourse for a year. And everyone always and only talks about vaccines. With spasmodic attention, fully justified by the facts of our life. The alarms on the Astra Zeneca have generated fears, worries. Confusion: People go to vaccination centers begging God to touch them another product. Let fate not put the Anglo-English vial in his muscle. Many give up, many more wonder what reason guided the choice of those who vaccinated them at that time. They think about what supplies have arrived in their city, like in a lottery. Although it is an irrational attitude, which is due to that cognitive illusion that makes us see and dramatically amplify only a very small corner of a larger history (the extraordinary scientific enterprise that has put so many vaccines in our hands in less than a year , for example), this happens. Therefore, Aifa’s ambiguity is not good. Feed the cognitive illusions.
Covid, because it is so difficult to compare vaccines
by Cinzia Lucchelli
A clear word was needed, dictated not by scientific reason but by the need to put order. If there are doubts (albeit few and rarefied) that under the age of 60 this vaccine can induce some fear for young people and adults, we must tell the vaccination centers, the doctors, the Italians that it should be inoculated to those over 60 ( or 65 they decide, but once and for all) years.
Covid vaccines: the truth about the Astra-Zeneca case
by Donatella Zorzetto
This is required, as we have said, not by scientific reason, but by the need to leave no ambiguity. To give the Italians a rule. Made necessary by the extraordinary feat of having to vaccinate millions of people in a short time, which requires serenity and composure. But above all it requires certain rules. The ambiguity leaves room for the choices of the various vaccination centers, certainly dictated by contingent needs (which vaccines are available, for example) but which leave the Italians who go to the vaccination centers restless: what will they do to me? and if there is no Pfizer, will they make me the Astra even if I am less than 60 years old? is it just the misfortune of finding this or that product available to spin the roulette wheel?
No, these are not thoughts that must go round in the head of those who go to get vaccinated. Astra Zeneca yes or no: Aifa will decide and we will obey.
Moreover, we are so far behind with vaccinations for the elderly and over 70 in general that a dose should not be wasted. We are so far behind that our seniors continue to die far more than their European peers, so why not favor the AstraZeneca vaccine now and for all of them?
In the coming months, new data will arrive, and Aifa and Ema may have new scientific supports to decide whether, indeed, it is better not to vaccinate young people with this product, if women under 50 or any other category must be left out the evidence. scientifca want classifies as at risk. Or if, as we all hope and scientists imagine, the thrombosis cases are not to be linked to the Astra Zeneca product. New scientific evidence will come. Which will allow Locatelli & Co to change the indications. As the months go by, more data will arrive. And new guidelines can be issued, even open to other age groups. Today’s clear word may change tomorrow if scientific evidence allows it. Because this is medicine: a new disease (and Covid is), a new product, a very short time of administration and an enormous number of people to whom it is administered. In short, a completely new situation. Medicine changes its truths over time and with the accumulation of evidence. Politics must be able to manage this unavoidable fact without confusing an entire country. He must know how to give a rule today, and know how to change it tomorrow with the change of scientific truth.
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