Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 September 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission
Professor Johan Giesecke:
I will get closer to the microphone. I said that Sweden never had herd immunity as a goal or strategy, but the strategy of protecting the old and vulnerable while allowing some spread in the population has had the by-product of herd immunity. I do not agree with the zero-Covid approach. I do not believe it is possible or feasible as a solution. We would need to do it in each country in the world. Otherwise, it cannot work. New Zealand managed to go without any cases for 102 days and then had quite an outbreak.
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