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First vaccinations also in some symbolic places of the pandemic in Italy. In Codogno, more than 1,400 health workers have joined the campaign and will be vaccinated.
Lucia Premoli, resuscitation nurse at Codogno hospital Among the operators who assisted ‘patient 1’ Mattia Maestri, she is the first to be vaccinated against Covid at the Lodigiano hospital, symbol of the pandemic. The nurse thanked her company “for the opportunity it gave me: be an example for all my colleagues. We have no other way to go – he emphasizes – to return to a normal life “.
At the Alzano Lombardo hospital, another symbol of the pandemic, meanwhile Professor Giuseppe Remuzzi, president of the Mario Negri institute, has been vaccinated.
“On February 20 it was also sunny, it was a clear day, but today the light is of hopeSo Annalisa Malara, the anesthetist at the Codogno hospital who first discovered the presence of Covid in Italy. “We were the first doctors affected by this terrible virus, for me and my entire team it was a shock. With today a circle is finally closed, “says the doctor, who will not be able to get vaccinated because she has recently been ill with the flu.” She will do it as soon as possible – she specifies – because it is a fundamental weapon.
For Dr. Malara, the vaccine “is a formidable weapon to defeat the virus, the realization of a huge international effort.” That is why Vaccine Day, he stresses, is “a day of joy and hope”, adds the anesthetist who, although he has not been able to get vaccinated, has chosen to be at the Codogno hospital for the start of vaccinations. “Leading by example and communicating the importance of this vaccine is a must.”
The vaccines are administered directly in the resuscitation room where the man was swabbed, the first in all of Italy. “We wanted to symbolically combine the two events – explains Salvatore Gioia – the first swab and the first vaccination, here in Codogno, to give a sense of continuation in the fight against the virus, which began at a time when very little was known and reached a point where the knowledge became such that it led to the vaccine and eradication of Covid.
The first to get vaccinated today at 3 in the afternoon will be Lucia Premoli, one of the nurses who assisted Mattia. Then it will be the turn of Stefano Paglia, head of emergencies and a few days ago appointed head of the Asst Emergency Service in Lodi, and Massimo Vajani, president of the Lodi Order of Doctors and general practitioner. In total, 50 people will be vaccinated today, including those who are not on the list for medical reasons – one recently received the flu vaccine, the other contracted the virus – Annalisa Malara and Laura Ricevuti, the two doctors who, by forcing the protocols last February, identified patient 1.
“I live this December 27, the first day of vaccinations, as a celebration of life, especially for Bergamo, our city.“: Mayor Giorgio Gori begins with these words to comment on the campaign for the Covid vaccine on social media.” I know that even among us there are those who approach this step with distrust. “I would like to reassure him,” he added, “inviting him to consider science a reliable companion and the vaccine as the tool that will allow us to restart the economy and work, the key that will return the collective dimension that the virus has stolen from us.” “In this dimension, individual freedom cannot ignore solidarity: if there is something that the Covid experience has taught us – he is convinced – it is that no one can save himself alone. We must hope that the organization of the vaccination campaign will be effective, without delay and inefficiencies. But today is a day of celebration, which gives us hope and which calls each of us to exercise responsibility ”.
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