Former NPHET member critical of some Covid-19 measures
A former member of the National Public Health Emergency Team has said that Ireland imposed measures during the Covid-19 pandemic that excessively limited basic freedoms.
Professor Martin Cormican, Professor of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, University of Galway, said that the approach taken here depended too much on fear to influence behaviour and that many of the foundations of rational infection prevention and control were undermined.
His remarks were made in a closed meeting of the Irish Society of Clinical Microbiology in Dublin on 21 October but were not published at the time.
In his paper to the meeting, Prof Cormican said that Ireland focused too much on short-term data, like case numbers and mortality that excessively limited basic freedoms for too long and caused collateral damage to people's health and wellbeing, in particular people who were vulnerable and disadvantaged.
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