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Thirty million doses of the drug (now called Vaxzevria) produced by AstraZeneca would be blocked in the US and banned from exporting to Europe, despite the fact that the FDA has not approved this vaccine in the US. To report it is MF-Milan Finance, on newsstands today, taking up what was declared to ClassCnbc by Piero Di Lorenzo, president of Irbm di Pomezia, the company that collaborates with the company in the production of the antidote to Covid-19: “President Draghi is very good to implement all possible actions, including diplomatic ones, to obtain as many doses as possible from the producing countries. Currently, however, the greatest productivity is in England, India and the USA. All three have blocked exports, but the strange thing is that the United States has also done so, which has not authorized the drug and which has stored about 30 million doses ”.
“I am not the representative of AstraZeneca, but when I hear about 30 million doses it is very credible that these are the numbers. The US also distributes them to Canada and Mexico, so there is no doubt that the vials are there. But the country’s authorities decreed the blockade: the company cannot do anything to change a political decision ”.
Di Lorenzo, however, does not feel like pointing the finger at the producer, recalling how “the multinational has put a vaccine on sale at 2.8 euros, that is, at the industrial cost, making an ethical choice from the history of medicine. In practice, it has renounced a tens of billions of turnover ”. Although, he admits, there was some communication problem after the EMA blockade and with the Anagni issue.
“The incorrect communication on the vaccine has damaged Italian and European citizens first of all. AstraZeneca will still be able to produce 3 billion vaccines in 2021, mainly supplying them to the vast Indian market. It is not a commercial problem, but a health problem for hundreds of thousands of people. Another example of mystification (that of Anagni, ed). When filled, the doses must remain stationary for about twenty days to assess whether they contain impurities. It almost seemed that AstraZeneca wanted to bury the vials under the desk, but it is not so: can you really believe that a big pharma of this size is so naive as to think of hiding so many doses without anyone noticing? As the legal representative of Irbm I have to sign declarations even for a packet of 20 doses: here we are talking about 29 million ”.
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