Australia saw a surge in flu cases during its winter but no rise in fatalities, says HSE’s Colm Henry
The “great majority” of the population in Ireland had developed some form of immunity to Covid-19, but he encouraged those who had not received a booster vaccine to do so and to get the flu vaccine when it becomes available.
He said billions of people still have not been vaccinated, disease testing regimes in many countries have “collapsed” and antivirals have been poorly integrated into patient management. Dr Ryan said health systems were being run at 120 per cent occupancy, “right at the edge of their ability to do normal business. And then we wonder why they fail when we stretch them”.
Dr Henry said there would be a rise in cases of infectious illnesses such as flu in Ireland this winter and that the emergence of another Covid-19 variant was possible. However, he said the signals from Australia’s flu season, which are often mirrored during the northern hemisphere winter, had not been catastrophic so far.
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