Europeans vaccinated by the end of summer: this is the promise (and the goal) of the European Commissioner Thierry breton and its task force. Interviewed by the French broadcaster BFM-TV, Breton reiterated that Europe does not need to buy more vaccines: it is enough to strengthen the structures and organization to achieve immunity.
All Europeans vaccinated by the end of summer: Breton's words
The European task force for strengthening the production capacity of vaccines has a very specific objective: all Europeans vaccinated by the end of the summer. Obviously, the citizens who want it (vaccines are on a voluntary basis). "We must ensure that all those who want to be vaccinated can be vaccinated by the end of the summer," said Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Industry. “I am committed to doing my utmost to achieve this goal. Even if, in a company, you are never 100% sure ". The goal, in reality, is to achieve the 70% of the vaccinated European population. The European task force for controlling the production capacity of Coronavirus vaccines - headed by Breton - was born only last February, on the initiative of Ursula von der Leyen. During her presentation to the European Parliament, the president of the European Commission took stock of the vaccination campaign. I am 26 million the vaccine doses distributed to date, but there is still a long way to go.
The point about vaccines in Europe
Currently, three sera are administered in Europe: Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca. The Russian vaccine Sputnik 1, which would have an effectiveness of about 91%, has recently started the analysis process by the EMA (European Medicines Agency) so as to be able to contribute to the goal of vaccinating Europeans by the end of the summer. However, according to Breton, having it is not necessary: vaccines are sufficient, what needs to be improved and implemented is the administration system. In addition to facilitating the production: the three vaccines, plus the two that will soon arrive, will have to be produced in Europe. But there are no technical times for the opening of new plants. The solution? Act on about 10 factories scattered between the European Union and Switzerland. An urgency, this, increased by the diffusion of the variants.
variants
"To get out of the Covid emergency there are 3 recipes: containment measures; implementation of a national plan for sequencing of variants; and finally implement a system that is capable of block the transmission on the territoriesor and throw these rapid tests overboard which are like water guns against the virus, ”said Cristanti. "It is recommended to intervene in order to contain and slow down the spread of the variant VOC 202012/0 (the English variant), strengthening or raising the measures throughout the country and modulating them further where circulation is higher, in any case inhibiting further releases of the current measures in place ”, the words of the ISS. Who then underlined how, soon, aVariations will be dominant. Stronger, more easily transmitted and - according to the latest data - even more lethal.
