“It appears a priority to safeguard those places that during the pandemic represented the main channel of contagion and spread of the virus, such as, for example, hospitals and residential facilities for the elderly. To this end one could envision this first phase of administering the vaccine directly in hospitals and, through mobile units, in residential facilities for the elderly“. This is what we read in Plan for anti-Covid vaccines (you find it who) that the emergency commissioner, Domenico Arcuri, sent to the presidents of the regions, and for information to the ministers of health and regional affairs. The first vaccines, he clarified, “could be available as early as the first months of next year”.
First doses from the end of January 2021
In particular «The Pfizer vaccine, whose validation process seems to be to date the most advanced, would allow Italy to have at the end of January 2021 a approximately 3.4 million doses to be administered to 1.7 million people. It is therefore necessary to choose the target of citizens to whom to administer the first available doses, ”said Arcuri, recently appointed head of the operational plan for the distribution of vaccines in our country.
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The large-scale distribution of the second phase
For the other incoming vaccines, intended, instead, for all other categories of citizens, “different methods of administration will be provided, in line with the ordinary vaccination management, through a large-scale campaign (for example with the drive-through, already used for tampons, ed) starting from people with a high level of frailty ». In the document sent to the governors, Arcuri – finally – asked the Regions to send, by next November 23rd, the table with number and denomination of hospitals and RSA. For each hospital unit thus identified, it is necessary to indicate «the number of personnel operating within it, for whatever reason; the number of staff health and social health operating in the area, which can reach the hospital in no more than 30-60 minutes; the internal availability of freezers »with characteristics such as to allow the conservation of the serum and the “relative volume of available space”.
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