Irish Examiner view: It’s time to reinforce the messaging

Covid vaccines

In the spring of 2020, the prospect of a viable vaccine against Covid-19 seemed distant at best. Picture: Larry Cummins

If one were to travel back to the time when the pandemic was really beginning to bite, in the spring of 2020, the sense of fear about Covid-19 was all-pervasive, and the prospect of a viable vaccine seemed distant at best.

Flash forward to the current day and it seems as if the reaction to these two linked issues has been reversed. Is it now the case that people see the prospect of contracting Covid-19 as distant or unlikely? Has the disinformation propagated about vaccination made people more fearful of that option?