14 november 2020
17:53
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Europe may give a positive advice to a first vaccine this year. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is assuming six or seven different vaccines in 2021.
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) expects to issue a favorable recommendation to a first vaccine against the coronavirus by the end of this year, with a view to distribution from January. The director of the office clarified this on Saturday.
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“ If the data is solid, we can give the green light to the first vaccine by the end of this year and start distribution from January, ” said Guido Rasi, director of EMA (European Medicines Agency), in a conversation Saturday in Italy. newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore was published. The agency must license and control the medicines in the European Union. The final green light, given by the European Commission, allows laboratories to market their medicine throughout the EU.
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The EMA, which assumes ‘six or seven’ different vaccines in 2021, received ‘the first clinical data from Pfizer for its vaccine on Friday,’ explains Guido Rasi. “We got the preclinical data from AstraZeneca, those from the animal studies already being evaluated, and finally we had several interviews with Moderna.”
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By launching a vaccine on the market in January, the first effects on the spread of the virus will become visible “in five to six months, essentially next summer,” the director explained. “Obviously, it will not be possible to vaccinate everyone, but we will start with the most exposed categories, such as older people and health care workers, which will begin to block bridges of transmission,” Rasi said.
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According to him, more than half of the European population needs to be vaccinated to bring the pandemic to a downturn, which will require ‘at least 500 million doses in Europe’. Vaccinating everyone ‘will take at least a year’ and ‘if all goes well, we will have a sufficient immunization by the end of 2021,’ Rasi added.
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