At the No Vax event – or, as the organizers are keen to point out, No Pass – yesterday in Alessandria there was also Pierluigi Garavelli, head of infectious diseases at the Maggiore hospital in Novara, from Alessandria, Knight of the Republic for just five days , pioneer of home care for Covid with hydroxychlorichine. Precisely because of his curriculum, there are those who were surprised to see him surrounded by protesters of the Green pass and, many, even against the vaccine.
“I was not there to protest – he assures – but to provide information as I have always done throughout my professional career, in schools, in clinics. But you know that 10 years ago when there was no Covid I spent a whole day in argue with 300 women to convince them of the need for vaccines? Calling me No Vax is insulting and ridiculous. Only someone who does not know the context can do it. In Alexandria I am well known for my positions and yesterday I was invited to speak for make information because movements like No vax are created precisely when there is no clarity “.
In reality, participation in the square risks costing him dearly. The Maggiore hospital in Novara is evaluating the opening of disciplinary proceedings against him. Tomorrow the general manager of the Maggiore university hospital of Novara Gianfranco Zulian will meet with his colleagues to assess the situation. “I want to understand under what title Garavelli went to the streets and with what intent. It is a matter to be clarified”, he explains.
In reality, Garavelli maintains: “My obligation towards the company prevents me from disclosing hospital data, but certainly not from providing correct information on Covid or other topics”. At this time the doctor is on sick leave. “Yet I took the trouble to introduce myself even if with the cane because, as a member of the national board that deals with Covid, I feel the duty to intervene to clarify when asked. Yesterday is certainly not the first time” .
The doctor is not afraid of repercussions on his profession: “I have been doing what I have been doing for a long time and in many ways”. And to enter into the merits of his statements in Piazza Garavelli he specifies: “I am vaccinated, my wife is too, my daughters are not yet and I have expressed some doubts about young people: this does not make me a No Vax, but a very boring professional. I say instead that the vaccine – and consequently the Green pass – cannot be a free all. The vaccine works if used in conjunction with home care for the infected and an always high attention to behavior. the variants that can “pierce” the vaccine built on the Wuhan strain – he explains – For this reason, even with the Green pass I have to continue to maintain responsible behavior. I am against the fact that it becomes an indiscriminate pass “. These arguments that Dr. Garavelli is certain will also convince the top management of the hospital where he works.
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