“I think it is important to get vaccinated: we owe it to all the people who have left in our arms since we are health professionals and we work with patients affected by Covid, to all those who have lost a loved one to all the colleagues who have infected by giving assistance “. Flavia Acunzo has no doubts, a very young nurse from the Intensive Short Observation of the Cardarelli hospital in Naples, among the first to get the vaccine against Covid tomorrow morning. That of Flavia, 22, will in fact be a long night of work and at the end, around nine, she will go to the tent where the vaccine is administered to receive it.
Night of waiting
This will be a night of waiting, spent between thinking about what tomorrow will be and looking after patients. “Nurses – he explains – paid a high toll: we saw our colleagues first professionals then patients and it was not easy, it is a battle we are still fighting, it has not yet been won, and we hope that the vaccine is the beginning of the difficult end of this year “.
“There is a moment of fear”
“There is a minimum of fear – he continues – because it is a new vaccine, it has not been used much, but I was immediately convinced to do so. I firmly believe in research and I believe that for us health professionals it is important to vaccinate also to give the good example giving the beginning to all this “. The young professional, member of the Fials union, graduated last year and who started two months ago, responding to a public Covid notice in Campania, immediately had the support of her parents with respect to the opportunity to be among the first to receive the vaccine.
“Even my parents – he adds – are health professionals and they had agreed to be vaccinated. Of course, as with all parents, there was no lack of understanding, but I made the choice to say yes and then I compared with them, feeling the full support “. “With the arrival of this vaccine – concludes Flavia – we can say they gave us a Christmas present. For me it is exciting to receive it.
“Make a campaign”
A campaign should be launched that highlights the vaccine itself for people who are not convinced, because for example they think that the time has been very short. But I think it should be explained and made to understand that it is true that they were short, but the cases to study this vaccine are many and the funds were mainly used in this, since there was a global pandemic “.
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