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AGI – A doctor at the Umberto I hospital in Syracuse tested positive for Covid19 after receiving the vaccine. In recent days he had gone, together with a first group of people belonging to the medical staff of Syracuse, to Palermo to administer the doses of the vaccine.
Local health authorities are working to check if the doctor, before traveling, had contracted the virus and if he had recently been subjected to hyssop, perhaps asymptomatic. The attention is now on the people who came into contact with him, including those who accompanied him on board the bus for the trip to Palermo and the others he met during the vaccination procedures.
“I assure you that before I was vaccinated I had made more than one swab, but most likely the virus was still incubating,” says Dr. Antonella Franco, head of the department of infectious diseases at the Umberto I hospital in Syracuse.
“I have tested positive for Covid but I would get the vaccine again – he explains – and I will make the call that represents the only great opportunity we have to win this battle.”
“If I had not done it – says Franco – the undisturbed virus would have done me irreversible damage. The vaccine, which produces a spike protein that helps form anti-coronavirus antibodies and blocks the virulent progression of the virus, will help to block viral replication and contain the pathogenic effects of the virus. “
“The person in question probably tested positive even before receiving the vaccine. He was already incubating the disease. It is necessary to explain to people how long it takes to develop defenses and when he is protected: that is, after the second dose.”
So to the AGI the infectious diseases specialist, Matteo Bassetti, director of the infectious diseases clinic of the San Martino hospital in Genoa, in relation to the news of the doctor on duty at the Umberto I hospital in Syracuse, who tested positive for the virus 6 days after undergoing the vaccine.
