For the Covid vaccine it takes time. The race to the antidote against Covid will probably not take place before spring of 2021. And it won’t be for everyone right away.
Covid, who will get vaccinated first
While the president of Irbm, Piero Di Lorenzo, said the validation of the vaccine could arrive as early as the end of November, with 3 million doses by the end of the year, while the Russian president Putin announces to the world that Moscow has a second vaccine, the EpiVacCorona, and while even Facebook takes the field by banning advertising to no vax, WHO lead researcher Soumya Swaminathan has already explained that the anti-Covid vaccination will not be for everyone in 2021. “Mass vaccination will not be possible rapid against Covid “.
It will necessarily be necessary to establish who runs the highest risks in order to be subjected to the vaccine as a priority. So who will get the vaccine first?
As confirmed by the same President of the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) Domenico Mantoan, priority will be given first to the health workers and all people on the front line. “We all agree on this,” Swaminathan explains. Then it will be the turn of the most vulnerable categories of people, that is elderly and people with pathologies of a certain importance.
Consequently, according to the World Health Organization, the young and healthy people may not receive the Coronavirus vaccine for two years, that is not before 2022.
Who is the vaccine most effective on
Guido Forni, academic of the Lincei and former professor of Immunology at the University of Turin, with a past as a researcher at Bethesda in the United States and London, explained that the anti Covid-19 vaccines will arrive by spring, “they will be safe, perhaps effective, in a second phase of more, but in any case they will not be able to save everyone ”.
Currently, the most promising vaccines, Forni analyzes in an interview with La Stampa, “are 11 in the final phase, of which many, if not all, will be registered by January. Four Chinese and a Russian one, relying on the lack of democracy, have already been administered to a large number of people ”.
The vaccines, he explains, will be safe, also because the only experimental phase that has not been accelerated is the 3 on safety. After the probable registration in January, i vaccines will therefore be distributed by spring. The Government has booked several doses and much will depend “on how these agreements are honored”.
Forni, on the other hand, says he is convinced that they will be available to everyone, “but the vaccine is not a drug but a stimulus to the immune system, which works best on healthy, young people. The first ones arriving will be safe for everyone, but less effective on children and the elderly. We need the luxury of time to develop universal vaccines ”. But by vaccinating the rest of the population, children, the elderly and the sick will also be safer, he says.
In phase 1 and 2 there are currently about forty vaccines “started afterwards which could be more effective and easier to use, like nasals. While the former would almost all need two doses. They will work, but no one knows how long. A vaccine can prevent you from getting sick, lessen the effect of the disease and even stop the infection. According to the available data, the first vaccines would lack this last characteristic ”.
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