Dr. Ronan Glynn:

The key takeaway for me from that interview were her final remarks, which were that we need to follow the science. Ultimately, that is what we are doing. We are following the data and the evidence.

We all want things to move faster than they are moving at the moment, we all want to get back to a level of normality where we can forget about Covid and about the pandemic. However, ultimately, as advisors, as people who look at the evidence as it is published, assess it and liaise with colleagues in the HSE like Professors Cormican and Keogan who look at the real-world utility of these tests, we must be guided by the evidence and the science. Throughout this pandemic we have tried to be guided by the science. As Professor Horgan noted this morning, ultimately that is what we are all aspiring to do.