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Vaccines: Astrazeneca labor, Spanish methods, Israeli records and confused GPs (in Italy)

Vaccines: Astrazeneca labor, Spanish methods, Israeli records and confused GPs (in Italy)

Facts, names, numbers, curiosities and controversies. The tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Start, not only on vaccines

NEO CONTIANI

ASTRAZENECA IN QUEUE

VACCINES AND RIFFE

DOCTORS WAITING

DOCTORS IN THE BALANCE

SPANISH METHODS

ISRAEL RECORD

MODE

Undoubtedly

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VACCINES, WHAT HAPPENS TO ASTRAZENECA?

(excerpt from an article in Corriere della Sera)

But what really happened to the Astrazeneca vaccine? Is it possible that an industrial battleship of the caliber of AstraZeneca, flanked by one of the top research laboratories like the one in London, has made this mess up? Yes, it is possible.

It all started with the announcement of results that gave a non-homogeneous response: 62% of the effectiveness obtained with the administration of two doses and 90% with the administration of a first half dose plus a second full dose. Vice-president of the biomedical research section Mene Pangalos used the term "serendipity", which translated into Italian means "discovered by chance". A dosage mistake had been made, which emerged during the hundreds of checks to which vaccines are subjected, much more numerous than with a normal drug, and immediately reported to the regulatory authorities.

In filling the vials destined for clinical trials in Great Britain, the Oxford preparers had used a halved concentration of the active ingredient. In the documents viewed by Reuters there is talk of "potency miscalculation". Not only. The British tried to shift the responsibility to the biotechnological institute based in Pomezia which, thanks to its experience in the field, had instead evaluated with specific molecular techniques which should be the right dilution. Subsequently, the ceo of AstraZeneca, the French Pascal Soriot, gave us his, at the level of confusion, with a series of triumphalistic announcements which were not followed by concrete facts. Ema just said we will have to forget this vaccine by January.


This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vaccini-travaglio-astrazeneca-metodi-spagnoli-record-israeliani-e-medici-di-base-spaesati-in-italia/ on Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:36:35 +0000.