“We are not anti-vax, get vaccinated”: the mother of Ariele, the 11-year-old girl who died in Palermo from Covid, affected by the Delta variant, contradicts the president of the Sicily Region and invites everyone to get vaccinated.
“She waited until our quarantine was over to leave, but we couldn’t even pet her,” but “enough of the exploitation of our daughter’s death: we are not anti-vax.” The woman, in an interview with Repubblica di Palermo, recounts the tragedy that has struck her family. And on the failure to vaccinate the family members, she explains that they “wasted time” because they wanted to “understand better, after the contradictory news about AstraZeneca.”
Then the little girl “had been sick, as happened cyclically, and we had postponed to assist her”. “But – he adds – we were organizing ourselves to get all vaccinated. My other older daughters, after all, have always had the recommended pediatric vaccines. She couldn’t because of her pathology. For a year and a half we were barricaded at home, to protect her”.
Then the vacation in Spain of one of the sisters of the 11-year-old who comes back positive from the trip: "my daughters - she reconstructs - have all tested positive, my husband and I have always been negative. On July 11, Ariele's saturation dropped and we called 118. She resisted for sixteen days, sedated and intubated. Now they have returned her to us in a black bag". The little girl's mother launches an appeal: "you must get vaccinated to save children and fragile people like her who cannot do it" and "those who do not get vaccinated for ideology, at least have the decency to stay home and not put others at risk". "Waiting has cost me dearly - she observes - I have already called the GP to book the first dose. I do not want to risk my daughters being orphans. President Musumeci has called me an anti-vax, adding pain to pain. It would have been nice – she says – if he had exposed himself in the same way when we and other mothers were fighting to have a Metabolic Diseases department or when we asked for the possibility for my daughter and children with a fatal diagnosis to have compassionate care with stem cells”.
Article published on 28 July 2021 - 08:58
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