Dr. Cillian De Gascun:

We see every year that our influenza season poses challenges for the health service, but I alluded to Australia earlier and we may get indirect benefits from this. The measures we have talked about in the context of this pandemic are hand hygiene, physical distancing and good respiratory etiquette. Setting aside physical distancing, we probably should have been practising good hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette already. It should not necessarily be terribly remarkable. As I said, in Australia, although it is early days, they seem to have seen a benefit of such measures on their influenza season. If we can carry those behaviours with us, we may be able to have an impact on the influenza season. If the two viruses strike in tandem, it will certainly be very challenging, but I think what we have demonstrated over the past three months is that, as a society, we can control the virus. It was really important to be able to demonstrate that and learn that lesson.