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Tents at the quad at UCC during a student protest last March in relation to a proposed rent increase. Picture: Denis Minihane

A striking feature of the current Covid crisis is the emergence of a new group of scientific experts on our television screens, radios, and newspapers.

From epidemiologists to immunologists and virologists to biochemists, some academics have left their laboratories to become household names.