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

Dr. Samuel McConkey:

We have not been able to keep influenza out of nursing homes over the years and I believe it will be impossible to prevent the re-entry of SARS-Cov-2 into nursing homes unless we control it radically in the community such that the risk of staff members contracting it is exceptionally low.