Covid vaccine-neurological damage link, yes to compensation for a woman

The serious neurological damage that occurred one week after the administration of the second dose of the Covid vaccine cannot be a coincidence, nor can it be explained by a pre-existing autoimmune pathology. The Tribunal of Asti has thus recognised the causal link between the Covid vaccination and a very serious health impairment, transverse myelitis, which affected a 52-year-old woman, who was unable to walk independently at the time of the vaccination.

I giudici di primo grado hanno accolto una domanda rigettata nella fase amministrativa dal ministero della Salute che negava la prova di un legame, tra la vaccinazione obbligatoria e l’evento. I giudici di Asti hanno avallato le conclusione dei consulenti tecnici di ufficio che, dopo aver visitato la paziente e studiato la letteratura scientifica, hanno concluso in senso favorevole alla danneggiata, titolare di una tabaccheria, che riceverà un indennizzo di circa tremila euro al mese, con versamento bimestrale. I Ctu hanno contestato le tesi del ministero della Salute e di Aifa, che valorizzavano i problemi di salute della signora precedenti al vaccino, Comirnaty, prodotto da Pfizer-Biontech. Ad avviso dei periti, infatti, la storia clinica ha dimostrato che «non vi erano eventi neurologici pregressi né modifiche terapeutiche rilevanti pre

The presence of a pre-existing autoimmune disease is not, therefore, an independent and sufficient cause of the neurological event but only a possible 'favourable condition that, in the present case, probably facilitated an aberrant immune response following the vaccine'. The woman was, for the consultants, only in the abstract at greater risk of an abnormal reaction to various external factors and agents. But the severe clinical manifestations that occurred close to the second administration of the serum cannot be reduced to mere coincidence. Arterial hypertension and smoking were excluded as alternative causes, as they were conditions that 'do not represent known direct causes of myelitis or acute polyneuropathy'.

The ruling also cites the Aifa database, which reports593 cases of transverse myelitis registered after vaccination up to 2022, of which 280 associated with mRna vaccines. Data highlighted by lawyer Stefano Bertone of the Ambrosio & Commodo firm in Turin, who assisted the lady, with colleagues Chiara Ghibaudo and Stefania Gianfreda.

"Isolated cases have been identified," says Bertone, "in which the inactivated virus vaccine and mRNA-based vaccines have caused acute spinal cord demyelination syndromes, such as multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica." Bertone finally recalled that, in a statement from the European Medicine Agency, "the committee reviewed the available information on reported cases globally and, in light of the scientific literature, concluded that the causal relationship between vaccines and transverse myelitis is at least reasonably possible.