Covid vaccine, the northern regions ask for the doses of AstraZeneca stopped in the south, from the government no to redistribution – Corriere.it

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They called her «Astranight» also to give some color on these curfew nights. In Matera – from 10 pm to 6 am this morning – there was a valid reason for all those between 60 and 79 years old to leave the house: the administration of the serum of the Anglo-Swedish multinational that in Basilicata in the last month has gone a bit in fits and starts seeing that 46% of the doses are still in the refrigerator. It is the vaccination at the counter: without reservation and in order of time. The first 750 in order of arrival secured the vaccine yesterday by reducing the accumulated stocks. In Puglia they did it on April 16 in front of the “Porte dello Jonio” shopping center in Taranto. You stay in the car and wait for the puncture until the doses are exhausted, a model already used for Covid tampons.

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The Campania case

It is no coincidence that the region led by Michele Emiliano has a over-use

of AstraZeneca compared to other regions: freeze only 19% of the vials, which is necessary for reminders to school and health personnel. In Campania Vincenzo De Luca – worried about collective skepticism – broke the hesitation about the ages by raising the commissioner structure led by General Francesco Figliuolo. In Marcianise, on May 3, 2,500 young people between 18 and 30 were vaccinated with Vaxzrevia. Tuesday same scheme: another «astra-day» in Caserta.


In Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Piedmont

It is the temporal incentive especially in the regions where AstraZeneca

it is viewed with suspicion despite the drug-surveillance data totally denying the validity of the reasoning. As the elderly prefer messenger RNA drugs the Vaxzrevia doses accumulate and it is necessary to give a boost by inoculating first those who should wait a little longer. In Lombardy however, no support is needed. A collective drug education work was carried out by health workers that dismantled any resistance. The same happened in Veneto, Emilia Romagna and Piedmont. It is no coincidence that the regions most affected – in terms of deaths and hospitalizations – by the pandemic.

The “vaccine federalism”

This is why a northern front is being created which was joined yesterday by the president of the Piedmont region, Alberto Cirio, who asks Commissioner Figliuolo to open the breach by re-distributing the still doses in Sicily, Campania and Calabria. It is yet another attempt at vaccination federalism that the government is opposing, aware that the projections on the supplies of the pharmaceutical companies allow us to breathe between now and the next few months.

560 thousand over 80s still to be vaccinated

The rush to administrations, however, is inevitable:

the contagion curve is also falling due to the vaccine effect and it is evident the competition of the regions on the administrations that is raising the data of the bites: in the last week 3,200,944 bites, just below the 500 thousand daily also due to the weekend effect that lowers the numbers. However, more than 560 thousand over 80s and at least one and a half million over 70s still remain to be covered. Yesterday 10,167 Covid cases (for a total of 4,102,921), The positivity rate is 3%, 224 deaths (122,694 victims since February 2020). The places occupied in intensive care are 2,211 (42 less than yesterday).

May 9, 2021 (change May 9, 2021 | 07:13 am)

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