“Matter of State”, for which the TAR destroys Lazio’s ordinance on mandatory vaccinations – Il Tempo

Zingaretti wanted to impose the flu vaccine on those over 85 and all health workers

The Lazio Administrative Court rejected the Region, or at least the order with which President Nicola Zingaretti intended to impose the flu vaccine on all people who have turned 65 on April 17 (“under penalty of being prohibited from frequenting places meetings such as social centers and residences for the elderly “, the phrase reads) and all the health and social health personnel working in Lazio. The deed signed by Zingaretti also reads: “Then there is a strong recommendation to get vaccinated for children between six months and six years old.”

The meaning of the law is “to facilitate the differential diagnosis to distinguish the symptoms of health flu from those of Covid-19, with the consequent lightening of the burden and pressure on regional health structures.”

In other words, in order not to flood the hospitals, it was decided to avoid as many seasonal flu cases as possible in some of the more exposed categories.

An idea against which many citizens have criticized, including the Italian Association for the Rights of the Sick and Citizen and Nursind Roma, the union for Nursing Professions.

And in the end the TAR accepted the appeal.

“The possibility that the Regions can legislate in sectors reserved for the state legislator is not disallowed by the Constitutional Court,” read the documents in which it is emphasized that “the ‘threshold’ established by the state legislator between the obligation and the recommendation of the influenza vaccine is the result of a complex and articulated balancing operation between individual freedom and the protection of individual and collective health ”

In short: “beyond the reasonableness of the measure, its implementation is not framed within the scope of regional competences but, in any case, only within the state”.

Therefore, “the Regional Administrative Court of Lazio finally decides on the appeal (…) accepts it and effectively annuls the order.” The Region is rejected.