High level of Covid deaths 'flying under the radar', expert warns 

'Ten people dying a day from Covid is one and a half times the numbers of people dying from lung cancer or stroke, three times the number of deaths from flu/pneumonia, five times the number of deaths from breast cancer.'

Ireland needs to examine the true impact of Covid on families and society as the sustained high level of daily deaths from the virus is “flying under the radar” and even considered "acceptable”, a ventilation expert has warned. 

Addressing the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) annual conference in Sligo on Thursday, assistant professor at the School of Architecture and Environmental Policy in UCD Orla Hegarty said: “We need to be very targeted in how we approach this. Covid hasn’t gone away but it is still having a very significant impact in terms of disease and disruption to families and income. It’s having a long-term impact on health in terms of long Covid.”