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Astrazeneca inguatta millions of doses? Biden injects public money to pharmaceutical companies, Tuscany vaccine scandal

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Astrazeneca inguatta millions of doses? Biden injects public money to pharmaceutical companies, Tuscany vaccine scandal

What has the Tuscany Region done on vaccines, what happens to Astrazeneca (beaten by Brussels), how much public funds will Biden pay for new vaccines. Facts, names, numbers, curiosities and controversies. The tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Start

TUSCAN SCANDAL ON YOUNG AND VERY HEALTHY VACCINATES

ITALY CENTER OF THE EU-UK CLASH ON ASTRAZENECA VACCINES

PRESS RELEASE FROM PALAZZO CHIGI:

On Saturday the European Commission asked the Prime Minister Draghi to check some batches of vaccines at a production plant in Anagni. The Prime Minister informed the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, who ordered an inspection that was held between Saturday and Sunday thanks to the work of the NAS Carabinieri. The inspection revealed that the lots were destined for Belgium. All outgoing batches are controlled by the NAS.

The case of the Astrazeneca vaccines stopped in Italy, what is happening (with the position of the House and the protest of France)

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EXTRACT FROM AN ARTICLE FROM THE PRESS ON ASTRAZENECA:

Twenty-nine million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine hidden in the Catalent plant in Anagni discovered by the Italian authorities following an investigation triggered by the European Commission. AstraZeneca's maneuvers were discovered thanks to the visit of Commissioner Thierry Breton to the plant in Leiden, in the Netherlands, managed by Halix. This is one of the two plants used by the pharmaceutical company to produce the drug in the EU (the other is in Seneffe, Belgium). The problem is that it has not yet obtained authorization from the European Medicines Agency to date. And without the go-ahead from the EMA, the doses in on can be delivered to EU countries. However, this does not apply to the United Kingdom, which in fact in the last months of last year would have imported the vaccines produced in the Dutch factory. During his visit, at the beginning of March, Breton experienced first hand the production capacity of Halix, capable of turning out at least 5-6 million doses per month. The lines were started in September, following an agreement signed last April with the University of Oxford to produce the viral vectors needed for clinical trials. In December, production activities were intensified following the signing of an agreement with AstraZeneca for the large-scale production of the drug. The British government had also sent some of its experts to Leiden to help Halix develop the production lines. What happened to the doses produced by the Dutch plant in recent months? EU sources explain to "La Stampa" that "it is very likely that in the first phase they were sent to the United Kingdom", but the flow would have been interrupted on February 1, when the EU regulation for export control came into force. Moreover, Brussels would never have authorized their sale in the United Kingdom. But what has happened in the last couple of months? Breton tried to ask Pascal Soriot for clarification, but the CEO of AstraZeneca did not provide sufficient explanations. It was at that point that the French commissioner became suspicious and immediately reported the situation to the Italian authorities, who carried out inspections at the Catalent plant in Anagni, used by AstraZeneca for the “fill & finish”, ie the filling operations. The first report sent to Brussels says that in the refrigerators of the warehouses of the Lazio site there are 29 million doses of the vaccine. EU sources explain that probably not all of them were produced by Halix, but they are still vials ready to be injected that the pharmaceutical company aimed to ship to the United Kingdom and not to the countries of the European Union, despite the considerable delays on the table of march of the deliveries agreed with the Twenty-seven. The EMA has not yet authorized the Halix plant because AstraZeneca has not provided all the necessary data.

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BRUSSELS PICCHIA ASTRAZENECA

BIDEN INJECTS PUBLIC MONEY IN JOHNSON & JOHNSON

COUNT BETWEEN GRAINS AND GRILLI

THE PLANS OF CURCIO AND SON

THE ALARM OF MINISTER GIOVANNINI

THE CONCERNS OF LETIZIA MORATTI

QUISQUILIE & PINZILLACCHERE

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/scandalo-toscana-vaccini-astrazeneca-biden/ on Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:30:54 +0000.