Syracuse, positive for Covid-19 doctor subjected to vaccine

Doctor Antonella Franco, vaccinated in Palermo six days ago, tested positive for Coronavirus. The woman, director of the Infectious Diseases Department of the Umberto I Hospital, in Syracuse, moved to the Sicilian capital less than a week ago, to be given the first doses of the vaccine together with the staff of her facility. It is not clear, however, if the doctor had swabs before traveling. Local health authorities are working to verify Franco’s state of health before the vaccine.

«The vaccine itself, which produces a Spike protein that helps to form anticoronavirus antibodies and blocks the virulent progression of the virus, will help to block viral replication and contain the pathogenic effects of the virus. I assure you that before getting the vaccine I had performed more than one swab but the virus was most likely still incubating»Explained Franco, who together with the competent authorities is trying today to circumscribe a number of people, including patients, colleagues and family members, with whom she came into contact. «I tested positive for Covid-19, but I would have the vaccine again and I will make the recall which represents the only great opportunity we have to win this battle. If I hadn’t done it, the undisturbed virus might have done me irreversible damage, ”said Dr. Franco. «The vaccine itself, which produces a Spike protein that helps to form anticoronavirus antibodies and blocks the virulent progression of the virus, will help to block viral replication and contain the pathogenic effects of the virus. I assure you that before getting the vaccine I had performed more than one swab but the virus was most likely still incubating “, he later said, while Professor Franco Locatelli, president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità reiterated how Franco’s positivity should not substantiate the thesis of those who think that the vaccine is not effective. “In scientific articles, it is clearly reported that even in clinical trials people have become infected after the first dose precisely because the immune response is not yet fully protective. And it becomes so only after the second dose. This is one of the reasons for not abandoning responsible behavior after being vaccinatedHe said.