RCPI Dean: Cocooning could save older people from immune system 'imbalance' which worsens Covid impact

Prof Emer Shelley: "Cocooning not only reduces our own individual risk of catching the coronavirus, it also reduces the risk of passing it on to others."

Cocooning could save older people from an "imbalance" in their immune system which can suddenly worsen the impact of Covid-19, according to the Dean of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

With the Government primed to extend the current lockdown restrictions beyond Easter Sunday, the strain of enforced distancing from family and friends has been a factor for many amid the current pandemic.