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Professor Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, nurse Claudia Alivernini and health social worker Omar Altobelli, were the first in Italy to receive the Covid-19 vaccine this morning at the Spallanzani National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Rome. “I am aware that today is an important and decisive day. Science and medicine are the only things that will allow us to get out of this virus. I say it with my heart, get vaccinated, ”said the nurse.
“I feel great. The choice was quite natural. I offered to get vaccinated and was chosen among the first as a symbol to say trust and believe in this choice. I think it is an example for other health professionals but also for the entire population,” he said Capobianchi, director of the virology laboratory of the Spallanzani was vaccinated for the first time in Italy, who participated in the diagnosis of the first infection by Covid-19. “We have to trust science, we cannot go out. The choices made are weighed and they are made on the basis of scientific evaluations. “
“I feel excited and physically great.” Thus the social health operator Omar Altobelli. “I did the vaccine to protect myself because if I’m okay I can be sure that even the people close to me are okay. We hope we have been an example for everyone, “he said in an interview with Sky Tg24. “Now dealing with Covid patients will be different. Certainly today begins a message of hope and confidence in science since the vaccine exists today, we look to the future in a much more positive, positive way ”.
The anti-Covid vaccine to the first three Italians in Spallanzani
“Today Italy wakes up #Vaccineday. This date will remain with us forever. We begin with health workers and the most fragile groups and then extend to the entire population the possibility of achieving immunity and definitively defeating this virus ”. Thus Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on twitter on V-Day in Italy and Europe.
“It’s a day we’ve been waiting for in time“The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, said this immediately after the first three vaccinations at Spallanzani in Rome.” The light is coming but we have to hold out for a few more months. It is not over yet and we must always respect the rules. “
“Today is a day of hope, but we still have months of a tough battle ahead.” The leader of the Democratic Party and president of the Lazio Region Nicola Zingaretti in Spallanzani says this after the first vaccines. “Today is the beginning of a new stage – he added – but it will take a long time to get results, because millions of people will have to be vaccinated. We need a massive campaign that reaches the people in a few months ”.
The 9,750 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine delivered today to all European countries for Vaccine Day are “symbolic”. The actual distribution – says the Ministry of Health in a note – will start from the week beginning December 28 and around 470 thousand doses will arrive in Italy each week.
“The vaccine is free for everyone but not mandatory“This was done by the extraordinary commissioner Domenico Arcuri at the Spallanzani in Rome where the first three vaccines against Covid-19 began.” I think – said Arcuri – that the number of people vaccinated will be much higher than we think. Italians are a lot better than we try to represent them ”.
Nurse Times Editorial Staff
Source: Ansa
