Full speed ahead with the 13,000 Pfizer doses and 2,500 of Moderna, assigned to the population over 80, disabled people, cancer patients and related operators. The sessions with AstraZeneca planned for school staff, police forces and citizens under 79 postponed to a later date
TREVISO. For the brand, the blockade of the AstraZeneca vaccine concerns over 11,700 doses, half of those planned between now and the end of the month. A stop that risks destroying the Ulss 2 vaccination campaign, following the announcement of the general manager Francesco Benazzi that he wants to accelerate with the administration, to reach all the citizens of the Marca – with the first dose – by June.
The precautionary and temporary detention ordered by the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa), which arrived in our country like a bolt from the blue, weighs down the immunization plans.
The one of the Brand Ulss is no exception, which between now and the end of March had planned to carry out over 27,000 inoculations with the three serums on the market Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, the latter guaranteeing half of all scheduled inoculations.
THE ROUTE
“We will proceed on a narrow gauge, hoping that the competent authority will soon give directions to resume using AstraZeneca. And in the meantime we are confident in the arrival of Johnson & Johnson », comments an operator at Vax Point. While waiting for the situation to evolve, the Ulss will proceed anyway, but with the handbrake on with respect to forecasts.
Full speed ahead with the 13,000 Pfizer doses and 2,500 of Moderna, assigned to the population over 80, disabled people, cancer patients and related operators. The sessions with AstraZeneca planned for school staff, police forces and citizens under 79 have been postponed to a later date. A hard blow in a particularly delicate and probably decisive phase of the mass vaccination campaign. And while waiting to know what will be established on AstraZeneca, we are navigating on sight. The Ulss is confident in the arrival of another 9,500 Pfizer doses, expected today, which will be enough until next week, proceeding at the rate of 2,000 injections against the 5,000 in theory feasible by integrating vaccination sessions with AstraZeneca.
LOSS OF CONFIDENCE
Yesterday a frantic day in the 4 Vax Points in operation in Godega, Villorba, Treviso and Riese Pio X (since yesterday the Foro Boario di Treviso has also opened). The latter struggling with the vials of AstraZeneca had to manage the most critical situation. In the morning the announcement of the seizure by the Nas of the ABV 5811 lot, stopped in Italy after the death of a Piedmontese teacher.
In the afternoon, the “surrender”, with the ban on using AstraZeneca in its entirety. With a mixture of anger and fear that had already hit Treviso hard last weekend, with 3,000 desertions by teachers after the withdrawal of a first AstraZeneca batch, it is now feared that the psychosis effect towards this anti-Covid serum will become irreversible. For this reason, Dr. Stefano De Rui, head of the Prevention department, launches an appeal: «We are sorry for the inconvenience to citizens, but the decisions must be respected.
The countries that have decided to suspend the use of AstraZeneca have done so precisely because the principle of maximum precaution applies when it comes to health. We await the necessary checks, but we read the decision taken as seriousness ». –
Valentina Calzavara