Dr. John Lambert:

I have no idea. I have been on Twitter saying that we should not keep announcing hospital and ICU admissions, but the percentage of patients with long Covid. According to the publications that we have put together, approximately one third of patients still have significant symptoms after one year. The number who cannot return to work with those symptoms is much less, but 1% to 5% of people are still disabled with long Covid after one year to the point that they are not able to function as they did prior to contracting the infection. Probably everyone in Ireland has got Covid, with some having got it twice. That is 5 million people. Even if only 1% of those are at risk of getting long Covid, it is a large population of people who are being disabled by this virus.