Ireland’s Covid mistakes: ‘It wasn’t a price I was willing to pay’

There were too many decisions based on fear rather than following the science, according to Professor Martin Cormican who has spoken out in an extraordinary interview with the Irish Independent today. The HSE’s former national clinical lead for infection control has admitted that the long-term closures of schools and banning visitors in nursing homes were “inhumane”. “The follow the science” mantra tended to communicate to the public a degree of certainty about the expected benefits...