Professor Philip Nolan at this evening's briefing. Image: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie Professor Philip Nolan at this evening's briefing. Image: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS have today confirmed 411 new cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
The new variant has changed everything Professor Philip Nolan, chair of the epidemiological modelling advisory group said we need to take into account the B.1.1.7 variant and how easily that transmits.He said if Ireland did not have the B.1.1.7 variant, the current measures for this length of time would probably have driven the R number down to 0.8
Professor Nolan said a delay of four to eight weeks in mixing would greatly reduce case numbers and hospitalisation numbers and the vaccination programme will begin more rapidly providing protection as greater supplies come into the country. “At the point when half the adult population are effectively protected by vaccination – and that will happen at some point in the course of the summer – it will only feel half as hard, we’re only gonna have to work half as hard to achieve the same level of suppression of the virus.”
#Open journalism No news is bad news Support The Journal Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to youDr Glynn said we can and should be optimistic for an enjoyable summer but in the meantime we have to “continue to work together to prevent a further wave of infection as we accelerate vaccination across society”.
Life is full of risk so I'll take my chances 😉
Why are people still listening to nphet and their scaremongering bullshit
God, do NPHET and the government actually believe people are following these restrictions? If you need to go outside 5km, just go to a grave on your way. Or say you have to milk cows, or pick shamrock. Nobody cares anymore
This is dejavu....newsflash...people have lost faith and ARE mixing. This is the boy who cried wolf all over.
Yawn
Listening to Nphet is incredibly risky to your mental health.. Nphet need to be dispanded now..!!
Does professor Nolan think that cancers undiagnosed and untreated for the past year is incredible risky or does social mixing pose more of a problem.
Country needs a new variant of NPHET. With a bit of positivity thrown in.
The government isn’t listening to the advice, as usual, then when things go bottoms up again they’ll again blame the people