Homosexuals at risk of Covid, storm over the Ministry of Health

The case broke out in La Spezia, but the document started from further away. In the form to get vaccinated against Covid distributed by the ASL 5 of La Spezia there are 30 categories and it is necessary to report if you belong to one of these to have the priority of vaccination. There are doctors and those who work in the school. The problem arises when you get to number 10. This is what the words: “Subject with risky behaviors”. In the list are: “Drug addict, subject addicted to prostitution, homosexual”.

No one had noticed that homosexuals were included in the category as risky behaviors and the controversy started on social media. The Ligurian regional councilor Ferruccio Sansa, former candidate for president of the Region for the center-left-M5S alliance, published the text on Facebook. “We tried to ask ASL5 for information after 13 unanswered phone calls, including the public relations office and the Covid-19 service, finally the public hygiene and vaccination office replied:” Yes, we know that sheet, but another office did it ”. We ask the Region, Alisa and ASL5 how it was possible to include, without the slightest scientific evidence, being homosexual in the categories of risky behaviors “.

Immediate intervention by the President of the Region Giovanni Toti, which also has the delegation to Health: “An unacceptable and discriminatory episode”.

It was discovered shortly after that the ASL had copied and pasted a text of the Ministry of Health. It comes from the “Functional specifications” of theNational vaccine registry drawn up by the Ministry of Health last October. «For the Ministry of Health, it is only the behavior that determines the risk, certainly not the sexual orientation of people. The internal form of the Asl 5 of La Spezia erroneously reports, as clarified by the Asl itself, an old document used for blood donations. The re-proposal in ministerial documents of old and outdated formulations will be immediately corrected ”.

Fault of the copy and paste, but the clash has become political, despite the apologies of the ASL. For the regional councilors of the Democratic Party. «A discrimination of which the Liguria it cannot be stained. A disservice is excusable, while such a thing never: discrimination and ignorance have no place in public companies, especially when it comes to health ».

Governor Toti replied: “With regard to the incredible and shameful inclusion of homosexuals among the” subjects with risk factors “for vaccination priorities, after an initial internal investigation by the ASL 5 of La Spezia it emerged that the error comes from copy-paste of the ministerial guidelines. Obviously this multiplies the mistake, it certainly does not cancel it. Rather. Equally obviously, it consolidates my opinion about the total incapacity, ignorance, bad faith and obtuseness of some opposition in the Liguria Region, which in order to shoot mud does not take care to ascertain and investigate ”.