Ardent OIUTFâer Prof Luke OâNeill has pivoted to LIDTF.
Dr OâNeill, who is Professor of Biochemistry at Trinityâs School of Biochemistry and Immunology, said: "We donât know what is going to happen with the variant that originated in India.
Speaking on RTĂâs Brendan OâConnor programme he added: âIf we see an increase in severe disease from the Indian variant in the UK, it might be time to slow down the reopening slightly here.â
Prof OâNeill said the next three or four weeks are critical. "We have a race now to get the vaccine out. Once Israel had reached 70% of people having the double shots, then they opened up more.
âWe should be getting the double shots out as quickly as possible.â
Independent councillor Mannix Flynn, who represents Dublinâs southeast inner city, said he witnessed what he described as a âfree for allâ on the capitalâs streets last night.
"I was in town myself and the atmosphere was quite hostile in places. People were not drinking lemonade.
Did a bit more digging on this and the 2020 paper she is referring to is from Norwegian and English virologists (Susrud, Sorensen and Dalgliesh). It doesnât claim that CoV-2 was engineered, it says itâs a chimera with the spike protein segment of the genome inserted into a coronavirus backbone, and this could happen naturally or have been made in a lab. I havenât seen their new paper yet, the first one was peer reviewed and published, the new one is awaiting peer review Iâd imagine.
I wouldnât be looking to Israel for example on anything. Whatâs the rest of the EU doing? We should do that.
If we believe MHQ has any scientific basis at all it should be applied to the UK. Of course itâs too late to do so already and it doesnât really have any basis anyway as it currently works and should just be gotten rid of.