Pfizer vaccine and recall at 35 days, Tar Lazio: “Ok to slip”

Recall of the Pfizer vaccine from 21 to 35 days, the Lazio TAR rejected the appeal of some citizens against the Lazio region defining the decision “legitimate”. The appeal was filed against the note acknowledging the order of the Ministry of Health, in turn issued on the basis of the minutes of the Scientific Technical Committee, which defined “an extension of the administration of the second dose in the sixth week after the first dose is recommended”. In rejecting the appeal, the TAR underlines that the Region made a choice “dictated by imperative reasons of general interest to be linked to the higher need to vaccinate as many subjects as possible, so as to ensure the widest coverage with respect to situations of ‘serious Covid’ “.” The World Health Organization, with its recommendations of 8 January 2021, had already widely stated that precisely with the aim of maximizing the number of subjects to be subjected to the first vaccination, the the interval between the two doses of Pfizer vaccine could be extended up to 42 days, or 6 weeks, then reduced to 5 by the Lazio Region “, the administrative judges noted.