Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Briefing by HSE Officials
Dr. Colm Henry:
From the information available to us, any excess mortality we have seen this year to date is largely attributable to Covid-19 deaths, but that said, it does not take away from the fact that there is a morbidity building up through unaddressed illness, through people either not presenting with symptoms or not attending. That would not be immediately obvious-----
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