Anti-covid pill, Magrini: “Available after Christmas”

The anti-covid pill “will be available in the weeks following Christmas. But we have taken steps to ensure that these oral drugs are booked as soon as possible. The evaluation will also be carried out at the European agency level. The results are more than comforting but the evaluation it will be completed in the coming weeks “. So on Sky Tg 24 Nicola Magrini, general manager of Aifa. “It is probable that the anti-covid vaccine will be administered annually like the flu one”, said Magrini, urging the acceleration for the third doses on frail patients, the immunosuppressed and the over sixty-year-olds and from 1 December vaccinating the youngest. “Today the availability of vaccines is greater, it is a question of obtaining maximum involvement from those who have benefited most”. And again: “We believe that at the end of the month, perhaps on the 29th, the EMA will decide on the vaccine at age 5 -11 years and the response is likely to be positive. Subsequent vaccination policies will follow “. “The information campaign will be carried out gracefully and gradually and will be necessary to make people understand the usefulness of this vaccination also with the involvement of pediatricians and family doctors. It is necessary to generate trust in everyone, to be built gradually”, he concluded.