Excellent & insightful interview with @CillianDeGascun by @Cumoski at @IrishTimesSport
Superb, nuanced points made on travel quarantine, testing & tracing, public health management, and learning from successful examples.
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Superb, nuanced points made on travel quarantine, testing & tracing, public health management, and learning from successful examples.
irishtimes.com/sport/other-sp…
On pubic health medicine:
“We still have insufficient numbers of specialists in public health medicine to oversee the number of investigations that need to be carried out."
“We still have insufficient numbers of specialists in public health medicine to oversee the number of investigations that need to be carried out."
On travel:
"That’s one thing we can learn from New Zealand or Australia - whether it is officially #ZeroCovid or just trying to get case numbers down - we are an island, and that should be of benefit because the virus has to travel to come here with people on plans or boats."
"That’s one thing we can learn from New Zealand or Australia - whether it is officially #ZeroCovid or just trying to get case numbers down - we are an island, and that should be of benefit because the virus has to travel to come here with people on plans or boats."
On Australia:
"There is absolutely a model there. But, again, in order to be able to do that and respond quickly in an agile way you just need the numbers down at a really low level"
"There is absolutely a model there. But, again, in order to be able to do that and respond quickly in an agile way you just need the numbers down at a really low level"
On case management:
"If you think back to the summer we were down to reporting single digits of cases per day but we were not doing retrospective contract tracing at that time. So, we were struggling to keep ahead of the infection. If we can get to low numbers that what you do.”
"If you think back to the summer we were down to reporting single digits of cases per day but we were not doing retrospective contract tracing at that time. So, we were struggling to keep ahead of the infection. If we can get to low numbers that what you do.”
On all-Ireland approaches:
"from a local perspective if ourselves and the north can agree a common strategy you could get to a situation where we have very low levels of infection and you monitor everything coming in and going out."
"from a local perspective if ourselves and the north can agree a common strategy you could get to a situation where we have very low levels of infection and you monitor everything coming in and going out."
On the benefits of all Ireland approach:
“It would be nice if we could get to a level of co-operation as that would allow large groups of supporters in the stadiums.”
“It would be nice if we could get to a level of co-operation as that would allow large groups of supporters in the stadiums.”
On hotel quarantine:
"This allows public health to work on the outbreaks we have in the community. It takes pressure off the system and allows us to work on what is already here.”
"This allows public health to work on the outbreaks we have in the community. It takes pressure off the system and allows us to work on what is already here.”
On the disease (1/2):
“The disease is far worse as far as I am concerned. Don’t get me wrong, post-vaccination and whatever sort of post-Covid normality there is, there will be knock on effects from the pandemic in the health service and with mental health and education....
“The disease is far worse as far as I am concerned. Don’t get me wrong, post-vaccination and whatever sort of post-Covid normality there is, there will be knock on effects from the pandemic in the health service and with mental health and education....
On the disease (2/2):
"but after what we saw over December and January, if the virus gets out of control it still causes significant damage.
We need to bring that under control and everything else follows on from there.”
"but after what we saw over December and January, if the virus gets out of control it still causes significant damage.
We need to bring that under control and everything else follows on from there.”
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