Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice

Professor Philip Nolan:

We do. Careful work has been done on mortality. I am not doing it, so it would be better if I asked the Department of Health to pass that on to Deputy Carthy. The one thing I do know is that we are well able to account for the excess mortality we are seeing in terms of the mortality we are detecting due to Covid-19. There is no discrepancy between our excess mortality data and the ongoing monitoring of the epidemic. That is a good position to be in - if I can put it that way - because it means we are seeing things as they are happening and we are not missing something.

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