Professor Philip Nolan has said Covid-19 would be claiming "around 40 deaths a day" if Ireland had not taken "early intervention" to prevent us following the European trajectory.
He said we suppressed the virus while it was mainly spreading among young people, before it overwhelmed the older generation. "We were just in time." In a post on Twitter, he wrote: "Cases rose rapidly and exponentially in Ireland and across Europe in October; early intervention in Ireland arrested this surge by the third week in October while incidence, and then mortality, continued to rise across Europe until early November." Prof Nolan, chair of the National Public Health Emergency Team's epidemiology modelling advisory group, said the "decision in October to