BOLOGNA – On the day when the red zone for Bologna and Modena is triggered, the controversy over vaccines for teachers who continue slowly does not subside. Schools have been at the center of a surge in infections in recent weeks, in particular in Bologna (957 cases) and Modena (502 cases), which led to the decision to return to lockdown. But there is great slowness in vaccines for teachers, denounced by unions and principals who are asking to increase the pace.
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The mayor of Bologna, Virginio Merola, also asked to review the modality that provides for the involvement of family doctors. While after the protest for teachers over 65 who are not vaccinated with AstraZeneca – about 600 in the region according to the Flc-Cgil – the front of teachers rejected because with diseases for which the drug cannot be used opens up, they are the so-called ” fragile “. “An absurd”, protest most.
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Red zone and AstraZeneca vaccines: the case of family doctors
The AstraZeneca doses distributed to family doctors amounted to 50 thousand, while the count of professors and janitors who have so far made the injection stops at just over 7 thousand, according to data provided yesterday by the regional health councilor Raffaele Donini. The audience of those who should be vaccinated in the school world is 120 thousand people.
In other regions of Italy, such as Campania and Tuscany, 50,000 vaccines have been reached for prof. Mayor Virginio Merola had criticized the choice to rely on general practitioners at this stage, but yesterday Donini defended it.
«I understand that attention is often paid to the trend day by day, hour by hour – said Donini – but there are strategic choices that pay off in the medium term. There was difficulty in the first few days, but then, when everyone leaves, the target will be reached in a very short time. In the first days of next week the vials entrusted to the doctors will be exhausted ».
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However, there are also organizational obstacles of no small importance, for example the fact that each vial contains 11 doses of vaccine and they must all be administered within a few hours. Doctors must have groups of 11 ready before they open the vial and start vaccinating. If there is one less, do not start, otherwise a dose is wasted. If there is one more, he has to wait for the next turn.
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“This is objectively an organizational complication, I have found my 11 people, but for those who do not have a secretariat it can be a problem to put together exactly 11 ad hoc patients – says Fabio Maria Vespa, secretary of the Federation of general practitioners of the Emilia Romagna -. The ideal situation for us is to have a full fridge and vaccinate everyone who passes by. But I also believe that next week we will run out of vaccines for school staff ».-
A total of 513,950 vaccine doses are expected for March, up to now Emilia-Romagna has received a total of 559,350 and has administered 73%. 142,000 people have completed immunization, 10% nationwide.
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And the university students make themselves heard, queued up for the school staff while in other realities such as the universities of Palermo and Lombardy we have already started with the help of the polyclinics. Here, too, the problem of the vaccine suitable only for up to 65-year-olds arises. “Has anyone explained to Bonaccini that university professors retire at 70?” chats come alive.
The Italianist Giuliana Benvenuti, candidate for the rectorate, observes in a post: «Other universities have obtained the possibility of organizing staff vaccinations: this possibility has not been granted to the University of Bologna. We must insist on proceeding towards a virtuous collaboration with the Region that will allow us to organize ourselves now to proceed quickly when the doses of the vaccines arrive, making up for lost time as much as possible and securing the entire Unibo community ».
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