Among the first to receive the vaccine, but now positive for Covid. He is the doctor of Umberto I of Syracuse.

Positive coronavirus less than a week after receiving the Pfizer vaccine dose. The case concerns the director of the infectious diseases department of the Umberto I hospital in Siracusa, Antonella Franco, who underwent the swab after receiving the vaccine and was infected. Now she is interned in the same department she directs. Positivity after administration of the first dose of vaccine is not difficult to verify.

In fact, immunization against the coronavirus occurs a few weeks after receiving the second dose of the drug, so the doctor may have contracted the disease before or shortly after the vaccination. And with the ASP organizing a bus for the trip to Palermo, the risk is that the other first vaccinated people have also been exposed to the virus. For this reason, the ASP would have extended the controls to other Syracusan health workers who travel to Palermo for the administration of the first dose of the vaccine. Which, Pfizer explains up front, offers protection against Covid-19 within about 10 days of the first dose and strengthens after the second.