Endemic?
Ireland is coming into winter. The HSE is coming under increasing pressure. The government is threatening a “circuit-breaker lockdown” to deal with what they say is a looming crisis. But is this pressure a unique crisis spawned solely due to Covid? Gript investigates. 1. 2019 – Irish hospitals at “breaking point” due to “killer flu” […]
Worst for 50 years?
Spare a moment, in this festive season, to mourn an old friend that’s missing in action. At this time of year, we’re usually joined by one of our old friends, the Orthomyxoviridae – better known as the viruses that cause Winter Flu. But this year? No sign of them. LATEST FIGURES SHOW that no cases […]
On the one hand, it’s good news that more people will be getting the flu vaccine, full stop, for the simple reason that the more people who are vaccinated, the harder it will be for flu to spread, meaning we’ll have fewer cases of flu overall, even in people who are not vaccinated. On the […]
Former head of the GPs Association, Dr Maitiú Ó Tuathail, predicted that it was going to be a “bad winter”, because Emergency Departments and ICUs in Irish hospitals were already at capacity.