Irish Examiner view: No excuse to remain unvaccinated

Professor Philip Nolan suggested that leaving your home with Covid or even flu-like symptoms has to become as unacceptable as drink-driving. It is an over-the-top pronouncement

Professor Philip Nolan: Comments by the chair of the National Public Health Emergency Team’s Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group may do more harm than good. File picture: Gareth Chaney

Ireland has one of the highest Covid-19 vaccination rates in the world. About three-quarters of the population is fully inoculated. That should, and does, give us reason for hope but it is now emerging that this isn’t good enough.

The reason we have such a high level of vaccinations is, arguably, due to the calm, measured, and sober advice that we have up to now received from Nphet. However, the latest pronouncement by Professor Philip Nolan, chair of the National Public Health Emergency Team’s Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, may do more harm than good.