The bacteriology professor, also questioned the benefits and drawbacks of the shutdown of indoor social activities.
A FORMER MEMBER of NPHET, Professor Martin Cormican, has stated that making vaccines for Covid-19 a legal obligation should have been considered and should become mandatory in the event of a future pandemic.
“Although the evidence of benefit in proportion to risk was overwhelming, accepting vaccination was never a legal obligation.” His remarks were made in a closed meeting of the ICSM last October as part of a reflection on how Ireland handled the pandemic, and were not made public until recently. Cormican also commended the fact that services such as healthcare, security and food supplies were maintained throughout the pandemic and said that the vaccination programme was “a phenomenal success”.
“I have also heard accounts of health and social care workers imposing inhumane restrictions on people in the name of infection prevention and control. In many cases I expect the problems were related to very understandable fear for themselves, their families or for other clients,” he stated. Tánaiste Micheál Martin stated today that lessons need to be learned in terms of how to handle pandemics.
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