A fifty-two-year-old from Alba remained paralyzed after two doses of the anti-Covid vaccine. The Civil Court of Asti established that the cause is to be found in vaccination, granting compensation
There is a woman from Alba, 52 years old, who he no longer walks. She had a tobacco shop and a normal life, until April 2021 when she did what they asked her to do and vaccinated against Covid. Two doses of Comirnatyproduced by Pfizer And BioNTechand a week later the first ones begin neurological disorders which causes her to be admitted to hospital. The situation falls rapidly and in February 2022 the diagnosis of transverse inflammatory myelitis. The result is that before the vaccination he walked, a few months later no longer.
A rare and disabling pathology
There transverse myelitis it’s one rare neurological syndrome which affects the spine and damages the nervous system resulting motor and sensory disorders: the spinal cord and the rest of the body no longer communicate with each other. You start to feel it sudden back pain, voltage And tingling in the affected area and you arrive at stiffness of the spine up to the most serious case, the paralysis.
The causes are not known with certainty, but it is common medical opinion that the immune system attacks the spinal cord by mistake: that is, it is considered a autoimmune disease. In the case of the woman from Alba, an autoimmune disease had already been found. The fact is that after two doses of the anti-Covid vaccine, the serious ones quickly appeared neurological symptoms that changed her life forever.
Causal link between administration and myelitis
The woman presents compensation request al Ministry of Health which however rejects it administratively. At that point he turns to judiciary which emanates a historic ruling. On September 26, 2024 Civil Court of Asti recognizes approximately three thousand euros a month of compensation, because “yes, it was the vaccine”. Or rather, it recognizes the causal link between the administration of the vaccine and the onset of myelitis: with the caution of the judiciary, it is likely that it was the vaccine that caused the paralysis. Therefore, not one comes into play pre-existing autoimmune diseaseso much so that i technical consultants appointed by the judge, Agostino Maiello And Stefano Zacàthey excluded this possibility: by analyzing the clinical documentation and the temporal proximity between the doses and the symptoms, they blamed the vaccination cycle.
To support their assessment, they cite the letter of resignation of the first hospitalization of 2022, where the doctor notes that «a situation cannot be excluded vaccine triggering role».
There judgment is also reflected in the numbers of AIFA databasetheItalian Medicines Agency. In 2022, after the mass vaccination campaign, they were registered 593 cases of transverse myelitisa noteworthy frequency of cases.
The judicial process continues
However, the last word has not been said. It’s one first instance sentenceso it can be challenged on appeal and the judicial process could continue. However, it is a important precedent regarding existing disputes related to adverse effects of anti-Covid vaccines.
THE’compensation meanwhile it exists and is based on one law that recognizes one welfare measure to those who have suffered damage to their mandatory vaccinations. However, it is not a compensation able to repair the damage immediately and to restore the previous situation. There’s no going back and there woman from Alba will never walk again.
