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"Thank you very much" to the unvaccinated patients for the new pandemic wave we are facing !!! I am going to ask the health center to eliminate all unvaccinated patients from my office. "

And he did.

Dr.

Mara Maffeis

, 48, a native of

Parre

, in

Bergamo

, and who works in the outpatient clinics of

Ponte Nossa

and

Premolo

, spoke with her contact at the Italian Health Protection Agency to raise that option: remove from the list of its 1,500 patients who have not been vaccinated against

Covid

. "They told me that it is not possible to do it, that then they would also have to remove obese people and smokers. Therefore, I will continue to treat everyone as I always have."

Dr.

Maffeis's

is a battle that comes from afar: "I have spent hours in the outpatient clinic convincing the undecided."

But his patience reached the limit this week, amid the highly contagious

omicron

wave

and the chaos that mass holidays and tests are causing.

"I was overwhelmed by the number of calls from patients who had tested positive, it seemed like March 2020," explains the doctor, "all these cases have been handled until now in primary care, but with this chaos we can't cope. The first appointment available for PCR is January 14. You make them a recipe and send them to the queue. It's absurd. "

In his case, all are asymptomatic patients or with mild symptoms. "We are still understanding how to manage the disease, between control tests and contact tracing. If I had nothing else to do, okay, but there are other patients as well." He talks about it at the break between his morning shift at Ponte Nossa and the afternoon shift at Premolo.

"From time to time I explode, patients know it. On Monday I was overwhelmed when I posted that message on my WhatsApp status. The bad thing was the threats I received right after. An anonymous person wrote to me telling me that he would have reported me to the carabinieri and that I had gone to a lawyer. A certain Locatelli called me insulting me, saying that he had promoted a collection of signatures so that they would fire me, that he would go to tell the media. Well, welcome if I can convey the message that you have to be vaccinated. No I'm scared".

The two introduced themselves as their patients, "but I don't think they are. In any case, if you don't agree with my thoughts, you are free to change doctors. I don't know how many of the patients I have seen are not vaccinated, but I think they have played a very important role in this new wave. The first infected that I visited, coincidentally, were four unvaccinated people ".

The doctor points out that the most skeptical are between 40 and 50 years old, "even with children. With some reasons, with others it is useless, once they asked me if it is true that the vaccine sterilizes you. I am tired of wasting time with these people. ".

She also received messages of solidarity: "I have already had three doses of the vaccine, and they have always caused terrible side effects, but I am ready for the fourth. In March 2020 I passed the

Covid

. If I think about that, in Those who wandered in search of oxygen and found it because others had died, I still get goose bumps. "

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