18-year-old girl dies after applying AstraZeneca and now Italy replaces second dose with Pfizer

The controversies surrounding the AstraZeneca vaccine at the University of Oxford were loudly renewed after the death of a young woman and the government again changed its provisions. it was forbidden are using AstraZeneca again in those under 60 years of age and the second dose should be provided with Pfizer or Moderna, which are using the MRNA type.

This is the fifth time that it comes and goes with the Anglo-Swedish vaccine, for which the European Union canceled future non-compliance with deliveries. He also banned it for two weeks.

Anger among young people is great because to download the AstraZeneca reserves, rejected by some of the users, in the massive campaign which hopes in September to have vaccinated 54.3 million Italians, health authorities and regions have established Special Open Days for young people.

Remember that the European and Italian health entities first authorized vaccination with the Oxford laboratory only those under 50. Then they took a step back: only for those over 60.

There was a decline from 60 to 50 years then release to all! During this time cases have occurred thrombotic reactions, several deaths in Germany and Denmark. Some countries have banned AstraZeneca, others have restricted the ages.

Fatal or severe cases were few compared to the millions vaccines inoculated around the world, but a curse that has spread to that of AztraZéneca. The only sure thing is that It works very well in those over 50 or 60, with high levels of protection. And that fatal or serious reactions are very rare.

The case of Camilla Canepa

The Italian scandal erupted with death a few days ago Camille Canepa, an 18-year-old girl from Liguria (capital: Genoa), who died of cavernous sinus thrombosis ten days after participating in an open house and vaccinated with AstraZenea.

Now the results of the autopsy are awaited, but authorities want to establish the role in the tragedy of hormonal cures this girl presumed four days after being vaccinated.

Camille had other problems that it has not been reported whether he wrote them down in the written interrogation in which all those who are vaccinated must report their problems to the doctor who questions them before the vaccination.

“They use us like guinea pigs”

In the famous Termini station in Rome, this weekend and Monday the demonstrations continued. It is a huge center specializing in AstraZeneca vaccines. Thousands of young people claim that “They use us as guinea pigs for the experiments”, and they are furious at the “cocktail” or “mixed fritanga” of the vaccines.

Many of those scheduled for the second dose on Monday claimed that they will give them the AstraZeneca. One in twenty withdrew without putting it on because of the refusal of the vaccinators because the government prohibited giving them the Anglo-Swedish substance. Others were accepted with reservation because they need a certificate stating that they have completed the vaccination for traveling or go to vacation spots.

The teachers called for the second dose are also protesting. “Those who are under 60 years old can only be vaccinated with Pfizer and Modern ”, was the answer. “I am very angry,” Naomi, 34, told reporters in the station at the scale of the mess.

Scared people

Naomi had to accept the heterologous vaccination, that is to say with two products from different laboratories. Dr Carlotta Marrangone, coordinator of the center, is shocked. “There are some very angry people and some very scared people.”

Federica, a 28-year-old lawyer, yells at the press. “I’m fed up!” Nothing is included here! “Some specialists believe that the climate of mistrust, if it continues to increase, it can partially block the vaccination campaign.

The president of the Campania region (capital: Naples), Vincenzo De Luca, announced that I wouldn’t respect the national order and that the second dose to those who have been vaccinated with AstraZeneca will be given with the same product.

It is an open rebellion. Public Health Minister Roberto Speranza said scientific tests carried out in recent months have shown that the use of heterologous vaccination with two different vaccines it gave very good results.

Several scientists replied that there are no in-depth studies about the argument.

Meanwhile, data shows third wave of pandemic continues to decline every time faster. This Saturday the infected were 1,723 and Sunday 1390, while the deaths, which numbered in the hundreds per day for several months, were 52 and 26 on weekends. Intensive therapies and normal coronavirus rooms are already 60-70% empty.

From this Monday, they reach thirteen regions, including from Monday Lombardy (Milan) and Lazio (Rome) which have switched to white color, the one with the lowest risk. In Lazio and Veneto, for the first time yesterday, there were no deaths from the virus.

More than 40 million Italians are already in the white zone and it is expected that by the end of the month seven other regions, including Campania and Sicily, will also abandon the color yellow, placing the 20 million inhabitants remaining at the best level.

End of curfew

To be white in color means the abolition of the curfew (from midnight to five for the yellow sector), the immediate reopening of full services in bars and restaurants, the opening of stadiums, gymnasiums and activity centers in spas, which already live in a climate of euphoria with the massive arrival of tourists.

But an alarm continues to grow: the spread of the so-called Delta variant, so baptized by the World Health Organization, after deciding to change the name of the variant of india to avoid national references.

The British government decided on Monday to postpone the fourth stage of the end of the pandemic by one month. The reason is the doubling weekly growth of people infected with the virus, already dominated by the Indian variant. Saturday was discovered a case in Milan in a collective contagion which was in a gymnasium with ten infected. The other nine have the English variant.

The government announced the arrival of 55 million doses of Pfizer and Moderna, and their desire to continue with a rate of 500-600 thousand vaccinations per day, which would ensure victory over the pandemic at the end of September with “collective immunity”, with 53.4 million fully vaccinated out of the 60 million Italians .

Rome, correspondent

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