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. Kirsten Schaffer:
That is a valuable question. We have to start off by getting more epidemiology information. We have to find out where the transmission is coming from. We just do not know if it is down to household parties or where the main transmission is taking place. We are lacking important information to then develop targeted interventions. We are very crude in our actions at the moment. I agree with the Government's plan to have different levels of restrictions but our restrictions are crude because we have no good epidemiology information to say what restrictions work and what restrictions are not necessary. This is where the big gap is and we have to find out more so we can then tell everybody what we have to do to try to bring the numbers down again.