Familial autoimmune thrombocytopenia. This would be the pathology he suffered from Camilla Canepa, the 18-year-old girl who died at the San Martino hospital in Genoa after participating in an Open Day for the administration of the Covid vaccine AstraZeneca, and was taking dual hormone therapy. This is what emerged this morning. This disease is characterized by the drastic reduction in the number of platelets due to their destruction and the suppression of production, with an estimated incidence between 1.6 and 3.9 cases per 100,000 people per year. And while investigators are trying to understand if the two pathologies had been indicated in the card delivered before the administration of the vaccine, on May 25, the experts are also trying to understand what happened.
Among them, Fabrizio Pregliasco, virologist of the University of Milan, commented a Fanpage.it the story of Camilla: “The fact that he suffered from this pathology had to be evaluated, above all it will be important to evaluate if there wasanamnesis and if it has been reported. At this point it unfortunately becomes one responsibility of the vaccinator if he has not collected these data in the anamnestic form “. As the expert explains, autoimmune thrombocytopenia” is a bit like what happens with vaccination, a problem of auto-antibodies that lower the amount of platelets in the blood, which made a subject fragile also with respect to the choice of vaccine. This too could be better assessed in the anamnesis. At this point we can do nothing but wait for the results of theautopsy and understand what the judicial authority will decide to do “.
However, Pregliasco stressed that he was “still convinced that the vaccination campaign needs to be accelerated, even with the use of AstraZeneca, because the virus is circulating and, as we see in Great Britain, is hitting its tail. But it is necessary to be more serene with respect to the guarantee of maximum possible safety of the single drugs Cts will stop the use of viral vector vaccines for those under 60 but – he finally reassured – for those who took the first dose and must do the second there is no problem whatsoever. Nothing happened, we haven’t had any case of thrombosis after the first doses, citizens can rest assured “.