Vaccines, attack on Big Pharma: “They just thought about getting rich”
There omicron variant of the Coronavirus in Italy and in the world it is advancing very fast, but the same are not doing pharmaceutical companies to refine i vaccines following the new strains of the virus, which protect against severe disease but not quite as hoped. Thus – reads the Fatto Quotidiano – from the scientific community there is a growing request to pharmaceutical companies to update vaccines, which have reduced the risks of Covid, ensure billionaire profits but were conceived long before the variant Delta and of Omicron. It started yesterday morning Francesco Vaia, the director of Spallanzani in Rome: “Do not allow the whole world to get vaccinated, overcoming the logic of patents and out-of-control profit, and not yet update vaccines to variants have proved tragic and unfortunate choices“.
And then Massimo Galli, – continues il Fatto – former director of Infectious Diseases at the Sacco di Milano: “This virus has shown us, in the space of a calendar year, that it has three variants one more widespread than the other “. If” viral vector products have more or less left the scene as strategic vaccines – he recalled – to remain so those in mRna they need updating. ”Even more stark Maria Rita Gismondo, director of Microbiology always al Sacco: the current vaccines were designed for “the virus ‘grandfather’ that of Wuhan”, now instead “we must expect new vaccines because the new variants are not covered as they should “.
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