• Giuseppe De Donno committed suicide, treated Covid with hyperimmune plasma

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July 29, 2021 The Mantua prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into the death of Giuseppe De Donno, the former head of pulmonology at the Carlo Poma hospital and advocate of anti-Covid therapy with hyperimmune plasma.

De Donno allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself and was found yesterday by family members in his house in Eremo di Curtatone, but the prosecutor wants to understand whether third parties may be responsible for the suicide. 



In practice, the objective of the investigators is to understand if someone could have induced the former primary, who on July 5 had started his new activity as a general practitioner after leaving the hospital, to take his own life, without leaving any message. Already last night the carabinieri and the magistrate heard the family, his wife and two children, while the doctor's cell phones and computer were seized. 



 The doctor's body is in the mortuary of the Carlo Poma hospital in Mantua, waiting to be returned to the family for the funeral. De Donno, in the hot months of last year's pandemic, had become the symbol of the fight against the virus conducted with plasma taken from the infected and healed and then transfused into the sick. His battle to impose the therapy had aroused much controversy, dividing public opinion on social media between for and against. De Donno was a frequent visitor, until a few months ago, of Facebook, where even with false profiles he discussed with himself the efficacy of hyperimmune plasma. Some time ago, however, he had come out of it when he realized that many of his followers were no vax. Now on social networks his death, in addition to arousing grief and emotion,it also sparked a flurry of conspiracy theories. Above all, on his sudden decision to resign as head of hospital to pursue the career of a family doctor. De Donno had never publicly linked it to the disappointment of hyperimmune plasma therapy judged to be ineffective; that stop, on the other hand, in which he had brought back the ghosts of an old psychological uneasiness kept under control until then. Paradoxically, the Covid emergency with the need to stay in the ward even 18 hours next to patients had a positive effect on De Donno, which vanished as the emergency in the hospital faded.De Donno had never publicly linked it to the disappointment of hyperimmune plasma therapy judged to be ineffective; that stop, on the other hand, in which he had brought back the ghosts of an old psychological uneasiness kept under control until then. Paradoxically, the Covid emergency with the need to stay in the ward even 18 hours next to patients had a positive effect on De Donno, which vanished as the emergency in the hospital faded.De Donno had never publicly linked it to the disappointment of hyperimmune plasma therapy judged to be ineffective; that stop, on the other hand, in which he had brought back the ghosts of an old psychological uneasiness kept under control until then. Paradoxically, the Covid emergency with the need to stay in the ward even 18 hours next to patients had a positive effect on De Donno, which vanished as the emergency in the hospital faded.Covid emergency with the need to stay in the ward even 18 hours next to the patients had had a positive effect on De Donno, which vanished as the emergency in the hospital faded.Covid emergency with the need to stay in the ward even 18 hours next to the patients had had a positive effect on De Donno, which vanished as the emergency in the hospital faded.



 His former colleagues in pulmonology and the management of ASST, shocked by the incident, in a note, remember him as an "excellent professional and of great humanity" and for "his complete self-denial", with patients in the first place . "Giuseppe was like that, at times sunny and shady at others", "because he was disillusioned with something or annoyed or angry at not being able to do what he hoped for for the patients. We hope that now he can find the peace he has lacked here".