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January 23, 2021 "There is no shortage of doses of Pfizer vaccine, but the precision syringes that allow you to extract the right amount are not proportionate to the vials: if we had those we could always have six doses per vial and not 5, as suggested by Aifa , and try to fill the gap ".
This is what some vaccination centers of different Regions (including Lombardy, Sicily, Emilia Romagna) affirm, reporting for this week the non-arrival of precision syringes (for Calabria instead the problem was found the previous week) by the Commissioner for the Emergency.
The precision syringes - according to several centers - would not arrive this week along with Pfizer's vials.
The same structures report that where the deficiency occurs they are using "tuberculin syringes, which do not allow the extraction of six doses".
In other regions, such as Sicily, where "since January it often happens that there are incorrect or unsuitable arrivals for the extraction of six doses", "those still supplied or stocks purchased independently" are used.
Even in Lombardy, the non-arrival of syringes for this week is confirmed in various centers: "they are buying them independently or taking them from the stocks of their hospitals - they explain -. In our area it is a general problem".
And from other centers they add: "While there is a calendar for vaccines, we don't know how many to expect and when they will arrive for precision syringes."