Professor Breda Smyth said there are 849 cases in hospitals across the country, including 137 admissions overnight.Prof Smyth said the majority of cases are in the older population. She urged them to take up the option of a second booster, as she said that half the eligible population still needed to avail of this.Prof Smyth said she wanted to address the concept of waning immunity.
Prof O'Neill said that Pfizer and Moderna have indicated that October would be the timeline for a vaccine against BA.4 and BA.5 variants, while they will have an Omicron vaccine in September.Prof O'Neill said he personally would not wait for the new vaccine to come along, as the current one is"still very protective against severe disease" and said he is particularly interested in Paxlovid, the drug that stops people ending up in hospital with coronavirus infection.
He said that usually what happens in Australia happens here and Australians are"having a very bad flu season at the moment".The Tánaiste said that it is possible that the Government will ask people to wear masks in certain settings during the winter, but said he does not envisage a return of"restrictions that restrict people's freedoms or cause people's businesses to close".
INMO General Secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha told RTÉ's Drivetime that the HSE need to protect their workforce and that many are suffering from Covid reinfection, as well as long Covid.
Back to the scaremongering I see!
Bla bla Black sheep have you any wool... Yes sir yes sir three bags full.. One for pharma one for corrupt civil servants and one for bill Gates bankers
Report on something important like the farmers in holland
Well it's Airborne and spreads outside
The eye contact variant must be near.
In hospital, not in the community
These transmissibility comment are now becoming ridiculous. If every strain transmission rate is a multiple of the one before and compared to the original - you can now contract covid from inside a sealed box.