Photo: Amanuel Sileshi / AFPLiving with Covid-19 community transmission is like having a tiger in your house - it will come back and bite you, the special Oireachtas committee investigating the virus was told today. Prof Sam McConkey infectious disease consultant said our strategy should be to completely stop all community transmission the virus in Ireland, and to prevent this in the future. Otherwise “we face multiple regular waves here, of infection, disease and death, and disability” for possibly many years. He was speaking as experts in infectious disease and immunology discussed what approach Ireland should take to tackling the virus. The epidemic itself – as well as tough counter measures taken – hurt marginalised people most.

Source: Irish Independent September 23, 2020 13:18 UTC