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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

...to those surges. It has not really begun to emerge yet in that way. We have seen surges of infection occurring at various different times of the year and that sort of pattern that, let us say, influenza might follow where we kind of know roughly when we expect to see peaks, when we expect to see troughs, what the thresholds to set might be to declare the flu season having commenced, etc....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: In relation to the previous pandemic on a global scale, which was the Spanish flu, are there any familiar patterns or any correlations there that Dr. Holohan is able to learn from? They were different times.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Dr. Tony Holohan: They were different times. There are a couple of previous ones that we would point to. The last significant flu pandemic was the swine flu one in 2009-2010, but it was occurring against the background of a population where we had a certain amount of immune memory. There was some level of immunity within the population. We had some drugs available to us that could deal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...epidemiologist, a doctor, or anything like that but these are just some things that have been said to me. Given that we know there is maybe a seasonal element to this disease, in the way that the flu has a seasonal element, does Dr. Holohan think that we would be better off waiting until later to start rolling out a vaccination in order that people have immunity from the vaccination going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

...know we will see a seasonal pattern of this infection occurring in the wintertime, receding as winter recedes and so on, in the way that we see with many respiratory viral infections, particularly flu. That has not yet been established. As I pointed to earlier in the meeting, we see a small uptick in the number of infections detected in the 19 to 24-year-old age group. We will keep a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...work that is going on, obviously the elderly are particularly vulnerable to Covid. I refer to the importance of the vaccination programme and booster campaign for the elderly. In the context of flu, which is of particular concern every winter, what lessons can we learn and extrapolate from Covid? I am thinking of HEPA filters in schools, for example. Should such filters be used in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

...in close contact. It might make sense for those individuals to wear a mask, particularly at times when there is a very prevalent level of infection from a respiratory viral infection such as flu or Covid. At those times, we may recommend that it is a good time for people in a vulnerable situation to choose to wear a mask when in close contact. If you know you will not be able to...