The former CMO said that the 'seductively simple solutions' proposed throughout the pandemic served to 'rush simple answers to complicated and complex questions'.
FORMER CHIEF MEDICAL Officer Tony Holohan has said that the media and others tried to “oversimplify” Covid-19, but that “no pandemic plan” that could have prepared the country for the crisis.
“We would all have loved to find the silver bullet which would allow us to return to how things were, avoiding the health and wider impacts that came from the illness itself”, he said.Holohan also said that the Covid-19 “exploited upstream weaknesses in planning and in operational responses to health emergencies” around the world.
“Neither could we find solutions through pre-existing and well-established rational decision making procedures. Read Next Related Reads Report finds Tony Holohan should not have been involved in process around TCD move 'You lost the run of yourself': Robert Watt grilled by TDs over Holohan secondment to Trinity Robert Watt to tell TDs he 'regrets' that Tony Holohan won't be taking up Trinity jobMandatory mask wearing in hospitals ended on 19 April.
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