Covid strategy for ‘3, 5, 7 years’ needed, says expert

“Living with the SARS2 in the community is like living with a large tiger in your house. It will come back to bite you,” Professor Sam McConkey, RCSI, said.

A longer-term Covid-19 strategy may be required for the next “three, five, seven years” because we will be living with the virus for a “long time”, medical and scientific experts told an Oireachtas committee today.

The special committee on Covid-19 heard that Ireland is at the beginning of a “second wave”, which will inevitably spread to nursing homes and more vulnerable populations unless we reduce community transmission.