Covid, primary positive after the vaccine: “I would do it again, it will help me to block replication and I will remember it”

He was one of the first to be vaccinated in Sicily. Antonella Franco, director of the Infectious Diseases department of the Umberto I hospital, discovered positivity at six days. “I tested positive for Covid. but I’d get the vaccine again and do the booster which represents the only great chance we have to win this battle. If I had not done it, the undisturbed virus would have done me irreversible harm – explains the doctor – Only the vaccine, 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 getting the vaccine I had done more than one swab, but it is most likely that the virus was still incubating ”. The doctor has been hospitalized since yesterday.

“Immunological protection against infection by the SarsCoV-2 virus is completed only after the administration of the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine – points out the president of the Superior Council of Health, Franco Locatelli – In scientific articles it is clearly indicated that also in clinical studies people became infected after the first dose precisely because the immune response is not yet fully protective. And it becomes like this only after the second dose. This is one of the reasons for not abandoning responsible behavior after vaccination ”.

There would be no other similar cases for the time being among Syracuse health workers who headed to Palermo with the same bus for the administration of the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. It is suspected that the infection may already be incubating without experiencing any symptoms. The same Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) specifies that the efficacy of the vaccine currently administered in Italy has been demonstrated one week after the second dose. “Although it is plausible that vaccination protects against infection, those vaccinated and the people who are in contact with them – Aifa points out on its website – must continue to adopt anti-Covid-19 protection measures.”

On December 28, the day of the vaccination, the primary school, as reported by Siaracusanews, had said: “We are all well and very excited. It is difficult to explain the emotion we felt upon our arrival in Palermo, after the tension that we have accumulated to date living in contact with our patients between life and death. This is the certainty of the end of this nightmare that only with the vaccine can we end. This pandemic has elevated us to our pure and noble role as infectious disease specialists., has given us the possibility of being able to help the entire planet to circumscribe such a contagious infection without neglecting all other pathologies. Today we are all excited a sign of a better future. We went to meet the science that, if in a few months it has managed to create a vaccine that will end the pandemic, it will surely be able to eradicate many others. chronic diseases. I do not hide that sometimes I was afraid of being wrong but with the Lord’s help I have always been certain that we will be able to overcome all evil ”.