Al padre serve una trasfusione ma le figlie ‘no vax’ sono irremovibili. Non vogliono per il loro genitore il sangue di una persona vaccinata per Covid-19 e la trasfusione non si fa.
It happened a few days ago in the hospital in Rimini, amid the dismay of the health personnel who had also tried to provide explanations and reassurances. A “disconcerting” news for the top management of the National Blood Center. What happened was reported by the Bologna edition of Repubblica.
Last Thursday at the Infermi hospital in Rimini, two women allegedly opposed giving a blood transfusion to their father, over ninety years old, who was hospitalized. They refused, according to what was reported by the health personnel, because they wanted to know in advance whether the blood came from a donor vaccinated against the coronavirus. They feared that RNA would be injected, the molecule at the base of the most common vaccines used in this period, Moderna and Pfizer.
The staff's explanations were of no avail. Besides, the donations are anonymous. The two did not consent to the transfusion which, in this specific case, at least was not a life-saving therapy but part of a therapeutic path to speed up the patient's recovery.
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“The news is disconcerting – he comments Vincenzo De Angelis, director of the National Blood Center – Supporting theories that question the safety of transfusions, especially in a period in which there are blood shortages, is dangerous, it could deter people from donating who would be interested. I reiterate, as we have always maintained, that the blood of vaccinated people is exactly identical to that of unvaccinated people. You can donate, and obviously receive, in complete safety”.
“A rather extreme case,” Rino explained to the newspaper Biguzzi, doctor and coordinator of the 'blood plasma' program committee of the Romagna Local Health Authority. "The blood donation process is monitored at a local and national level. And it is safe," Biguzzi emphasizes. "Blood donation is anonymous, free, voluntary, safe. These are the prerequisites. And there is maximum protection of confidentiality."
Among other things, he specifies, "that request for information was not supported by scientific evidence" because "there is no evidence that SarsCov-2 can spread through a transfusion. The virus is not transmitted through a transfusion". And RNA is not transmitted either: "Blood undergoes processing, a minimal quantity of plasma is present, but this aspect concerns dozens of vaccinations. It doesn't make a difference". In short, with the blood of a vaccinated person, you are not vaccinated.
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