The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has given conditional green light to the Pfizer-BioNTech anti-Covid vaccine. The Ema communicates it. “At the moment there are no indications that the vaccine will not work against the Covid variant”: said Emer Cooke, executive director of the drug agency (EMA). “The European drug agency has given the green light to the Pfizer Biontech vaccine. This is the news we have been waiting for. The battle against the virus is still very complex, as the latest news from London also shows, but to have an effective vaccine available and sure it opens a new phase and gives us more strength and confidence “. This was stated by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza.
“This is a defining moment in our efforts to provide safe and effective vaccines to Europeans! EMA has just issued a positive scientific opinion on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Now we will act fast.” So on Twitter the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
Regarding the English variant and the concerns over the developed vaccines, experts agree: “There have already been variations in the recent past and there may also be others. At present this does not mean an aggravation of the disease or lethality and, above all, the vaccine is not questioned”. Thus the medical director of Spallanzani in Rome Francesco Vaia interviewed by Tg2.
On the vaccine resistance of the Gb variant that emerged in the UK “I consider it highly unlikely”. The president of the Superior Health Council Franco Locatelli said this to Buongiorno, on Sky TG24. “Vaccines – he specified – determine the formation of an immune response against various ‘pieces’, let’s call them, of the spike protein. ‘is a mutation in one, two or three’ bits’ of the spike protein, it is highly unlikely that the vaccine will be ineffective. “
The decision of Ema, the European Pharmacological Authority, on the ok to the vaccine “should arrive even today, at least this is the forecast, except that Ema has all the power to fully evaluate, over time that you need, all the documentation received “, added Locatelli. “If as expected and desirable – added Locatelli – Ema’s approval is obtained, the vaccine will be shipped to all countries and will probably arrive in Italy on December 26th. This great day will be on the 27th. symbolic of the vaccine day. After the day of 27, around the 30th or at the latest in the first days of January, the real vaccination campaign will start which will affect health workers and workers and guests of the RSA, because the latter are among the most exposed to develop fatal complications of the infection “.
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