Expert warns risk of Covid variant emerging remains
An immunologist has warned that there is no guarantee that a virus will get weaker over time and there is still a risk of a variant emerging that could be more dangerous.
Professor of Biochemistry in the school of Biochemistry and Immunology at Trinity College Dublin Luke O'Neill said it is hard to say definitively that Covid-19 has become endemic, because that means it is a predictable disease.
He said the pandemic is moving towards the end in Ireland and in Europe as a whole, but it is still burning in other parts of the world.
Speaking on RTÉ's Today's with Claire Byrne, he said it made sense for the Government to drastically ease restrictions because "it won't get much better in the next few months." Professor O'Neill also said that there is very little evidence that a fourth dose of the vaccine is of any use unless it is given to someone whose immune system is compromised.
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