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Independent Group of Science/Medicine experts in Ireland & Northern Ireland advocating for evidence based pandemic strategies.
Feb 25, 2021 17 tweets 7 min read
New @IrishTimes poll:

- 67 % of people believe current restrictions are appropriate or insufficient

- 54 % of people favor a cautious school reopening

- 94 % believe travel should be banned or quarantine enforced

- Misleading question on #ZeroCovid

irishtimes.com/news/politics/… The #ZeroCovid question was false comparison of 3 X options:

1. Normality once elderly & vulnerable vaccinated (68 %)
2. #ZeroCovid (30 %)
3. Don't know (2 %)

Option 1 is not the Government plan, and is not credible because widespread vaccination is required for normality.
Feb 13, 2021 10 tweets 3 min read
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.

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."