Rome, April 13 (beraking latest news Salute) – The experimentation on the second dose of the anti-Covid vaccine will start at the Inmi Spallanzani in Rome, after the first with AstraZeneca, with other products including the Russian Sputnik. The announcement today at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, by the health director Francesco Vaia and the councilor for health of the Lazio Region Alessio D’Amato. There will be 600 volunteers who, after the first dose with AstraZeneca, will have the second with Pfizer, Moderna and the two different Sputnik adenoviruses. The trial after the approval of the Italian drug agency Aifa.
The trial is part of an agreement that will be signed this morning by Spallanzani, the Lazio Region, the Gamaleya Institute of Moscow and the Russian Sovereign Investment Fund. “This agreement will kick off the trials – explains Vaia – and there will be two directions. One will verify whether Sputnik is able to produce neutralizing antibodies against the variants that worry Italy. Then there will be an exchange of biological material with Russian colleagues. who will come here and work together with ours in the laboratory. The second director was born because there is a perplexed segment of the population on AstraZeneca, which we reiterate is a safe vaccine and like the others. We will carry out an experimentation, as other EU countries have done , to verify the possibility of combining various vaccines. Then we will do a ‘4-arm’ study: inoculating either a dose of the first Sputnik adenovirus or the second, or Pfizer or Modena. This is an experiment that we offer to the country is a possible solution”.
“We are ready to start as early as next week – assures D’Amato – We have already spoken with the” Aifa “president Giorgio Palù, who said he was in favor, and the minister is also informed. This is an important collaboration that strengthens the research – underlines the commissioner – in an important moment in which we have a certain turbulence in the quantities of AstraZeneca and the recommendations on that vaccine that have generated some anxiety “.
“We will ask the director of Gamaleya to send us the doses of Sputnik immediately”, concludes Vaia.
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