Rome, May 15, 2021 – 42 days are too many. For this reason a group of citizens has filed an appeal to the Tar of Lazio, to express their dissent against the decision to postpone the booster of the second dose of the vaccine Pfizer 21 to 42 days. And the trade unionist Francesco Iacovone began an even tougher protest: the hunger strike.
“What happens in these hours is nothing short of Kafkaesque – said Iacovone – the commissioner D’amato opens reservations for 40-year-olds and leaves frail and elderly people uncovered who will not be able to access the second dose within the time provided by Pfizer, and by the approvals of the regulatory bodies Ema and Aifa “, declared the trade unionist Francesco Iacovone.
Hunger strike
Francesco Iacovone is a trade unionist of Cobas national. He announced that he will stop eating indefinitely until the second dose of Pfizer vaccine is given later 21 days, at least for the frail: “While the lawyers Nicola Elmi and Vincenzina Salvatore, lawyers who are assisting the group of citizens awaiting the vaccination recall, informed me that they were at the TAR for the filing of the appeal, I began an indefinite hunger strike. Because if someone wants to undermine my health it is right that that someone is I. Because if someone wants to take away this constitutional right I answer with one nonviolent and determined protest. Because what the Lazio Region is perpetrating is unacceptable violence against the most precious asset I have “.
“The crafty ones skipped the line while my mother died from Covid”
The trade unionist then recalled the case of his mother, who died of Covid-19 last year March 21: “My mother took Covid away on March 21 this year, she would have turned 80 yesterday. A cancer patient with an aggressive lung tumor who did not have the vaccine in time – continues Iacovone – while she was forced to face the radio and chemo therapies in the hospital with the risks of contagion connected, all due to the delays on vaccines. And while the crafty ones from all over Italy skipped the line. She was thrown into a container for 2 months in the cemetery, like a box of fruit. Because this is not a civilized country even in death “.
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