There are 243 admissions to intensive care for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The daily balance between entries and exits is 100 more patients, bringing the total to exceed 3 units again. They are exactly 3.082. The peak of hospitalizations in intensive care was reached on April 3 last year with 4.068 patients in intensive care. In the ordinary wards (pneumatology and infectious diseases) the patients increased by 365 units compared to yesterday, bringing the total to 24.518.
The general Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, covid-19 emergency commissioner, does not mince words at 'Che Tempo che Fa' on Rai3: "The situation is this: we must accelerate. We have to make the change of pace, with 500 vaccinations per day in order to ensure that by September we reach at least 80% of Italians vaccinated ".
Army of vaccinators (from 120 thousand to 250 thousand). The number of 'vaccinators' contained in the Extraordinary Commissioner's Plan makes us understand the sense of urgency, general practitioners will be employed (up to 44), resorting to dentists (up to 60), employing specializing doctors, following of the Agreement reached between the Government, Regions and trade associations (up to 23), using doctors from the Italian Coni Sports Medicine Federation. In addition, a "capillarization of the administration" by employing the competent doctors of the production sites and large-scale distribution, resorting to outpatient doctors and pediatricians of free choice, continuing, where necessary, to the hiring of doctors and nurses on call, who will be added today already operational. Pharmacists and in emergency cases, mobile teams will be involved. A real army potentially made up of over 120 thousand operators and which can reach, with the total involvement of each order, a potential 250 thousand units.
Faced with an organizational machine that with the passing of the days is taking on more and more form and substance, the problem of the number of doses of the serum remains standing also following the psychosis triggered by the story of the Anglo-Swedish company AstraZeneca.
AstraZeneca chapter. “On more than 17 million people vaccinated with AstraZeneca serum, Fso far across the EU and the UK there have been - reads the company note - 15 Tvp events (deep vein thrombosis) and 22 pulmonary embolism events reported among those given the vaccine, based on the number of cases the company received as of March 8. This figure is much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size and is similar for other licensed Covid-19 vaccines.".
Meanwhile, yesterday, Piedmont blocked a batch of Astrazeneca (ABV5811) after the death of a dilute teacher who had been vaccinated, and Turin joins the other prosecutors after Catania, Trapani, Naples, Syracuse and Bologna that investigate after the death of some citizens after the injection of the serum in question. Actions, those of the Piedmontese Crisis Unit as well as those of the judiciary, as a precaution but which push Aifa to reassure: "there is an unjustified alarm over the safety of the vaccine". The same company at the end of the day provides data on the reliability of the whey which highlight "no increased risk of embolism or thrombosis ".
The other European countries. After the stop of Denmark, Norway e Iceland, Besides Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia e Luxembourg, also the health authorities of theIreland they asked the government to suspend it.
The position of AIFA. Compared to vaccines "there is a lot of emotion and I already remember it at the time of the flu" when vaccination was suspended "and then it was shown that those deaths were not correlated", he assures Giorgio Palu ', president of Aifa, the Italian drug agency, who speaks of "unjustified alarm". The company that speaks of “15 thrombosis and 22 embolisms out of 17 million vaccinated” in Europe and in GB also guarantees the safety of its vaccine. In short, there is "no correlation demonstrated so far - adds Palu ' - if not a temporal relationship, between vaccination and the harmful event ".
We don't demonize vaccines. "We will open a file, we will make all the necessary investigations, but we do not spread terror", Is the appeal of the prosecutor of Bologna, Giuseppe Amato. "We don't demonize vaccines. There is no alternative if you don't want to be victims of Covid "hold In the Musumeci, president of the Sicily Region where the inspectors of the Ministry of Health arrived today to investigate the death of the NCO Stefano Paterno ', 43 years old, who died a few days ago in Misterbianco (Catania) after undergoing the first dose of AstraZeneca. In the meantime, thousands of Italians have given up the administration with the vaccine from the company AstraZeneca.