Dr. Ciara Martin:

There is no vaccine for sepsis but we know that Covid, flu and other illnesses do contribute to the environment where sepsis can take hold of a patient. The free flu vaccine uptake in children was low last year and we identified that as a possible factor, so this year our public health doctors are in the schools. They are going into senior infants' classes in school to encourage uptake of this free nasal vaccine that is painless. They are all interlinked, including that vaccine and chickenpox vaccine, which we will, hopefully, bring in soon.