Doctors’ letter calls for new strategy to ‘co-exist’ with Covid-19

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Former FF minister among doctors who say Ireland is ‘lurching from crisis to crisis’

, who spoke at an anti-lockdown and anti-mask march in Dublin earlier this month; and retired GP and Aontú councillor in Derry, Dr Anne McCloskey, who has compared using masks to stop the spread of the virus to “using a sheep fence to keep out mosquitoes”.

According to the letter, engagement from all sectors of society last spring allowed us to “flatten the curve and buy time” but understanding of Covid-19 has “evolved greatly” since then. Today, the situation is “completely different” as there is evidence for a “significant degree of established community immunity” to the virus, the authors state.

According to the signatories, multiple published papers show “lockdown measures have little impact on the morbidity and mortality impact of Covid-19”. However, they say, current strategy inseems “oblivious” to the enormous burden of cancer and other diseases and the fact that those disproportionately affected are the most vulnerable in society.

In criticising the “questionable accuracy” of testing methods, the letter claims only a “fraction” of daily reported cases are “clinically significant in terms of transmissibility or impact”.

 

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The worst Hallowin ever

Don't take Covid tests anymore. It is not effective, and Govt is making poor use of this data. A few months one would need to show a series of symptoms to get tested. Now, one sneeze and you are getting a false positive in 24h. WE can stop this non-sense. NoToCovidTests

A level 5 lockdown for a second time is catastrophic to many families and will affect them for possibly decades. This is a failure of test and trace primarily, failure to put resources in place and failure of some ppl and organisations to do the basics to stop covid

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