No-vax insults to head doctor who died of cancer, doctors' outrage

Gabriele Molteni, head of Otorhinolaryngology and Audiology at the Sant'Orsola Polyclinic in Bologna, died at the age of 45 due to cancer

"Gabriele Molteni, head of Otorhinolaryngology and Audiology at the Policlinico Sant'Orsola in Bologna, died at the age of 45 due to cancer. But while many mourned his premature passing, the recently deceased man was the victim of insults and denigrating phrases on social media by anti-vax groups due to the positions he repeatedly expressed in the past in favor of vaccines. I don't think there is any need for any comment on the anti-vax world that always describes itself - even on this occasion - for what it is. A barbaric, violent, ignorant, dangerous world completely devoid of any kind of moral value". Matteo Bassetti, director of Infectious Diseases at the Policlinico San Martino in Genoa, expressed his indignation on social media.

An indignation shared by Roberto Burioni, professor of Virology and Microbiology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan. "Politicians and journalists who daily tell lies about vaccines and the non-existent damage they cause - he comments in a post - should realize that with their lies about vaccines against Covid (which have proven to be very safe, no increase in the incidence of tumors or other diseases has been recorded in vaccinated people worldwide) they smooth the fur of the worst part of our country, made up of people who have in their skulls, suspended in a pneumatic vacuum, a mixture of stupidity, ignorance and ferocity. In the past I compared them to mice and I made a serious mistake: I must publicly apologize to mice for having lumped them together with anti-vaxers", attacks Burioni who concludes with a "PS: all doctors, apart from four charlatans who should be immediately struck off the Order, fought for prophylaxis against Covid".