“Vacunagate” in Italy: more than two million doses received doses without priority

ROMA – At the moment there are no names of VIPs or celebrities, but friends of friends, magistrates, lawyers, models, cooks, priests, seminarians and even minors. As expected, given the dramatic delay in the vaccination of many octogenarians, a “vaccine” finally broke out this Friday also in Italy. Over two million people, to be precise 2,236,752, “skipped the line” and were vaccinated without having priority, as revealed in a report prepared by General Francesco Figliuolo, extraordinary emergency commissioner and in charge of the vaccination plan underway in the country.

The incredibly high figure created a stir and started a “hunt” for “cunning“(Translatable as” alive “) that ranks and dozens of criminal investigations have been skipped across the country for a crime that no one knows very well how to classify, in a totally unprecedented situation like this pandemic.

In a vaccination campaign that started at full speed on December 27 and was delayed due to lack of drug deliveries and disorganization more than 1 in 5 of the 12 million administered was intended for people not on the priority list (doctors, nurses, security personnel, nursing homes, octogenarians, fragile and vulnerable) and who ended up being classified in the nebulous category “other”.

The stoked has occurred all over the country, from north to south, but especially in areas such as Sicily, Calabria, Apulia, Campania, Tuscany and Valle d’Aosta, indicates the report, that clearly the Prime Minister, Mario draghi, could read yesterday.

It is only in this way that we understand why during the press conference in which he announced that the reopening of economic activities can only happen if all the elderly, the most exposed to the coronavirus, manage to do so. vaccinate, he also denounced those who skipped the list. “With what conscience do people skip the list, knowing that they put people over 75 years of age or frail at real risk of death?”, he wondered. “We can trivialize and say ‘stop vaccinating those under 60, young people, 35-year-old psychologists … those crowds of health workers who spread out … With what conscience a young person jumps- does it list? Insisted Draghi, 73 years old and immune pending his turn, with his wife, last week, inoculating the AstraZeneca vaccine to restore confidence in a controversial drug.

Suspecting that someone wants to favor “friends of friends,” Anti-Mafia Commission chairperson Nicola Morra announced via Facebook that will request lists of people vaccinated in Sicily, Calabria, Campania and Valle d’Aosta, where the number of registrants in the “other” category greatly exceeds the national average. And where is the Sicilian (Cosa Nostra), Neapolitan (Camorra) and Calabrian (‘ndrangheta) mafia.

“The initial overlap of vaccination criteria created chaos over the choice of priorities and,” said Falcone (Giovanni, the anti-mafia judge, murdered in a bloody attack by Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia, in 1992), where the administrators are insufficient, there the rules of the mafia“Accused Morra.” Thus, if in certain regions, even in the south, the priority of the most fragile was respected, it is not the same in those which are most infiltrated by criminality “, he added .

Exceptions

At Campania (whose capital is Naples) the doses for those not on the priority list were 297,193, much more than the 295,250 given to people over 80 years of age. The same thing happened in Sicily: the “others” (301,329) had more doses than the elderly (213,164) and in the Aosta Valley, where the grandparents were vaccinated 87,804 and the “ others ”, 88,030.

Beyond these figures, which are also the result of exceptions made alone by certain regions, the truth is that so far it is estimated that in Italy there are nearly a thousand “alive” who have been investigated by the police and riflemen.. In the north, there are about 640 cases; in the south, 280 and in the center about 60. These are numbers that increase with the hours and at the moment it seems to be much higher in the north, especially in Piedmont.

According to the newspaper 24 hour sun, it will not be easy for prosecutors to determine which crime it is: Fraud, abuse of power, embezzlement or lies?, he wondered. “We can trivialize and say ‘stop vaccinating those who are under 60, young people, 35-year-old psychologists … those crowds of health workers who spread out … With what conscience a young person jumps- does it list? Insisted Draghi, 73 years old and who was waiting his turn, with his wife, last week, to inoculate the AstraZeneca vaccine to regain confidence in a controversial drug. We will have to wait.