“I have never been threatened by no vaxes“. The virologist Andrea Crisanti, director of the Department of Molecular Medicine at the University of Padua, tells it to time.news Salute.” I happened to receive some messages in which there were insults, some e-mails with insulting tones. But nothing particular. “His notoriety among the general public has been growing in these 2 years of pandemic, since he was the scientist who put one of the first Covid outbreaks under the lens, that of Vo ‘Euganeo, and highlighted the importance of tracking and having an efficient tampon system to date: months in the spotlight, in which his stances on the hottest issues fueled the debate.
Yet, despite his bluntness, he did not attract the arrows of deniers and anti-vax, and it did not end up in the crosshairs as it happened to other experts or, worse, attacked as the infectious specialist Matteo Bassetti. “Only minor emails“, from what the expert reports who, in any case, does not appear very interested in social networks and their dynamics. The only episode he remembered for the comments received on the web that surprised him was the day after his first dose of anti-Covid vaccine: “I gave the injection publicly, even if I didn’t like the story of the cameras, and the video on Youtube went viral – he said in those days of January 2020 – But for some, even this is not enough . Some wrote that the needle was partially covered, while the operator slipped it into my arm “.