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Fear of severe side effects upsets Sicily's COVID-19 vaccination plans

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Sicily will start offering COVID-19 vaccines to people over 50 to speed up its inoculation programme which is being hampered by a reluctant older ...

A woman wearing a face mask walks past closed shops on via Etnea, as the region of Sicily becomes a 'red zone' closing bars, restaurants and most shops as part of tougher measures to tackle the spread of the coronavirus disease , in Catania, Italy, Jan 17, 2021.

"Media articles linking deaths to vaccinations has resulted in an understandable but unjustified psychosis," Sicilian governor Nello Musumeci told reporters. On March 11, a prosecutor in the Sicilian city of Syracuse placed two doctors and a nurse under investigation for possible manslaughter, following the sudden death of a navy officer hours after he had received the AstraZeneca shot.Musumeci said the shot would be offered to the over-50s age group from Wednesday in order not to waste any doses and to get Sicily's inoculation rate up.

 

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