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Draghi overturns Hope on Astrazeneca

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Draghi overturns Hope on Astrazeneca

Not only Astrazeneca, Draghi and Speranza. Facts, names, numbers, curiosities and controversies. Bits of press review in the tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Start

DRAGHI THINKS HOPE ON THE SECOND DOSE OF ASTRAZENECA

HOPE FORCED TO RUN BACK BY DRAGONS

DRAGON ANTIBODIES GO THROUGH THE MINISTRY

VACCINAL SPOTS

THE DISTONIES BETWEEN EMA AND AIFA

THE SEQUENCING OF THE VARIANTS STARTS (MAYBE) AFTER 6 MONTHS FROM THE ANNOUNCEMENT

ZAMBON BISTRATTA WHO

SPATIAL GRANDCHILDREN

US BISHOPS LITTLE BERGOGLIANS AND BIDENIANS

LUXEMBOURG IFIS

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EXTRACTS FROM CORRIERE DELLA SERA ARTICLES ON THE PRESS CONFERENCE OF DRAGONS ON HETEROLOGICAL FERTILIZATION:

There are two priorities: the second heterologous dose, therefore not AstraZeneca, for 990 thousand under 60s, and the vaccination of almost 3 million people over 60 who have not yet had the first dose. It is no coincidence that Prime Minister Mario Draghi speaks of a "challenge" when shortly after 7 pm yesterday he arrives at a press conference between the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza and the extraordinary emergency commissioner General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo. "I wanted to make a contribution to clear up some confusion about vaccines," the premier begins. To begin with, he says, "getting vaccinated is important." Then, «the heterologous vaccination works» and «the worst thing is not to do any second dose». He too, he says, will do the second dose of the vaccine on Tuesday and it will not be AstraZeneca as it was on March 30th: "I am over 70 years old, the first dose produced low antibodies and so I am advised to be heterologous, which works for me and also for those under 70 or 60 years old ». However, he reiterates: "Everyone is free to take the second dose with AstraZeneca as long as they have the doctor's opinion and informed consent." Minister Speranza also repeats it at his side: "The CTS gives a very strong recommendation for heterologous vaccination under the age of 60 but the possibility of using AstraZeneca remains open for those who request it under informed consent".

The vaccine pot had been boiling for days. The decision in the Ministry of Health to leave the use of AstraZeneca to those over sixty years old and to make the use of Pfizer and Moderna mandatory for those who are not yet sixty years old, had sparked disputes and controversy, so much so that the march of the vaccination campaign is in doubt. Many made it known that if these were the conditions, in the impossibility of choosing freely, they would have given up accepting the second dose, or even getting vaccinated. It is this concern, driven by the wave of the growing danger of the Indian variant, that pushes the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, to change pace.

Now the Ministry of Health, led by Roberto Speranza, is forced to back down. The vaccination mix between the first and second dose will no longer be mandatory, but only recommended. A necessary change of pace but which opens up many problems, because vaccination hubs will have to equip themselves to have sufficient vaccines for the different requests, difficult at the moment to predict.

The rebellion against the order of the ministry had seen in the front row the Lazio Region, traditionally among the most collaborative with the government, which yesterday called that choice "a disaster". Made on the understandable emotion for the story of Camilla, the girl who died of thrombosis after the first injection of AstraZeneca. The Lazio health councilor, Alessio D'Amato, evidently with the full agreement of its president, Nicola Zingaretti, had insisted on the absolute need not to introduce rigidities that could weaken the campaign: "We have received signals from two thousand people who are ready to give up if they do not have the possibility to choose ».

But a strong opposition, albeit underground, had also matured in the team of General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo. If there is no obligation to make vaccines, it was argued, much less can the type of drug to be used be made mandatory by dividing the population by age. The "you must", starting from the Constitution, does not exist in Italy on health. Freedom of choice therefore, on medical advice. And also the letter written yesterday by the general to the Regions reflected the fear that the tailback of the variants could plunge the country back into the maelstrom of deaths and collapsing intensive care. Figliuolo wrote: there are still two million and eight hundred thousand elderly people to secure, it is necessary to trace them, even by resorting to electoral lists. They are the most fragile, those at risk, absolute priority, for example, in the face of securing adolescents.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/draghi-ribalta-speranza-su-astrazeneca/ on Sat, 19 Jun 2021 09:19:31 +0000.