Milan – Provide a pre-vaccination dosage of anti Sars-CoV-2 antibodies, and consider not administering the anti-Covid vaccine to those who have them in such quantities that they can rely on natural protection against the pandemic coronavirus. The proposal was launched by Nino Mazzone, director of the Medical Area, Chronicity and Continuity of Care Department of the Asst Ovest Milanese, who together with his group signed a “Research Letter” published today in ‘Jama Internal Medicinè. “For a person cured of Covid-19, the probability of reinfection is 0.07% in one year. A figure based on scientific evidence, which must be considered for a more effective and safer vaccination campaign”, he tells beraking latest news Health the internist, who in November 2020 ended up hospitalized for Covid in the ward he directs at the Civil Hospital of Legnano, Milan. Strengthened by the double experience of “smock” (4,200 Covid patients managed since the beginning of the emergency) found himself ‘pajamas from evening to morning (“the fever, the cough, the yogurt that looks like lime and you understand that it has arrived”, he told in his diary from patient), Mazzone had already said in December: “The vaccine should not be given to those who have had the disease”. He has always repeated it and now he returns to us with the numbers in hand: “Over 122 thousand swabs, almost 16 thousand positive and only 5 reinfected a year, none seriously”. “During this pandemic we have continually found ourselves faced with new situations, which we had never experienced – reflects the specialist – Among these, the particular nature of Sars-CoV-2 and the diagnostic methods to highlight it. But if a person had For example, he could have contracted the virus asymptomatically. In this case, the antibody count after the vaccine would give an useless answer: how would we know if the antibodies were already present or if they were induced by the vaccine? therefore it is very useful to perform the antibody dosage before making the vaccine and, perhaps, not administer it to those who already have them “.
“In this way, many doses of vaccine would be saved”, Mazzone observes, who however also makes it a question of safety: “We would also avoid – he warns – potential damage to those who, with antibodies already, could develop a reaction after the vaccine” . Because “if reinfections are rare, and one has antibodies, it’s like he’s vaccinated” of course. So be careful that for him the injection-shield does not have an “overdose effect”: “To avoid the appearance of allergic reactions and the formation of immune complexes with related diseases such as vasculitis, nephritis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (Ards) and others – insists the expert – it would be useful to measure the antibodies before getting vaccinated “.
Mazzone looks “with great sadness” at the news of these hours: “A judge from Syracuse, on the advice of international experts, is preparing to give certainty to our hypothesis”. Because according to the conclusions of the consultants of the Prosecutor’s Office, recalls the doctor, Stefano Paternò, “the young non-commissioned officer of the Navy who died after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine, died because he had taken Covid without realizing it. He had antibodies and had a reaction. Immune Ards who killed him. No thrombosis, no vaccine blame, just too many antibodies. Unfortunately unheard, we said it in December. ”