Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed)
Professor Philip Nolan:
Yes.
I wish to make one final point, and then Dr. Glynn might wish to add something. What the history of the pandemic shows us is that if there is a high level of disease in the community, it spreads to older people. That spread will be slower now because those older people are being much more cautious, and the virus will be slower to enter long-term residential care because infection prevention and control understands the presymptomatic or asymptomatic transmission of the virus and because of-----
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