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Antonella Franco, director of the Infectious Diseases department of the Umberto I hospital in Syracuse, tested positive for Covid-19 who had been vaccinated six days ago in Palermo. As confirmed by the provincial health authority, she was one of the first to undergo the vaccine and was hospitalized yesterday.
Local health authorities are working to check if the doctor, before traveling, had contracted the virus and if she had recently been subjected to a swab, perhaps asymptomatic. Attention now goes to the people who came into contact with her, including those who were with her on board the bus for the trip to Palermo and the others she met during the vaccination procedures.
STUDIES
Immune protection against SarsCoV-2 virus infection is complete only after administration of the second dose of the vaccine. anti Covid-19, as pointed out by the president of the Higher Health Council, Franco Locatelli.
“In scientific articles,” he notes, “it is clearly reported that even in clinical studies people have become infected after the first dose precisely because the immune response is not yet fully protective. And it is only after the second dose. This is one of the reasons why he does not abandon responsible behavior after being vaccinated. “
DOCTOR’S COMMENT
“I tested positive for Covid, but I would redo the vaccine and I will make the withdrawal, which represents the only great opportunity we have to win this battle. If I had not done it, the virus without being disturbed would have caused me irreversible damage,” he announced. doctor, Antonella Franco, who is also director of the Infectious Diseases department of the Umberto I hospital in Siracusa.
“The vaccine itself, which produces a spike protein that helps form anti-coronavirus antibodies and blocks the virulent progression of the virus, will help block viral replication and contain the pathogenic effects of the virus. I assure you that before making the vaccine I had done more than one swab, but the virus was most likely still incubating. “
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