A leading international epidemiologist has said younger people are helping to protect the elderly when they socialise and go about their normal lives. It comes amid anger over mages of crowds of young people gathering in Galway and Cork as college lectures resume.
On Newstalk Breakfast this morning, Professor Martin Kulldorff, biostatistician, epidemiologist & Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, said we should be protecting the eldrly while allowing the young to “live close to a normal life.”
He said young people should be allowed to socialise as normal – provided they don’t mix with vulnerable groups afterwards.
“By living their normal life and socialising they are actually helping to protect the elderly because it means we will reach herd immunity sooner,” he said.
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