Ireland is in line to receive 2.2 million doses with the first delivery expected in mid-April. A vaccination centre at St Marys Hospital and Nursing Home in Phoenix Park, 15-02-2021. Image: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews
Professor Mills said the country’s vulnerable population should be fully vaccinated by then.
“The numbers of hospitalisations should decrease but there are still hospitalisations among the younger group and that is where most of the transmission is right now,” he said. “It is among the younger age group not the older age groups.
“So, we would still see significant cases if we don’t have some restrictions.
By Claire Corrigan
Trinity College Immunology Professor Kingston Mills spoke positively this week regarding his belief that the country will be in a much better position come June.
“There is absolutely, for certain, light at the end of the tunnel – I think people just need to be a little bit patient.
We are going in the right direction and I would be optimistic that, by the Summer, we’ll be out of the worst of this in terms of having vaccinated a significant number of people and the number of cases will be lower. While it is very difficult to predict the way things will be go, I would be optimistic that we would be in an awful lot better place come June.”
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Reading about the $50 million remodel of the Sears building on Colorado, originally built in 1947, I was pleasantly reminded of the late Ralph Story, the beloved CBS broadcaster. Among numerous programs, Story hosted Things That Aren’t Here Anymore, a nostalgic look at Hollywood and Los Angeles of old and the Sears tale would have been right up his alley. More years ago than I care to admit to, I actually interviewed for an entry level writing job with Story, though the details are somewhat embarrassing.
I was 20 (going on 12) at UCLA when I enrolled in a Theater Arts class “Broadcast Speech,” which was every Friday. (Ironically, just like these columns.) The other 9 students were all serious T.A. majors and didn’t seem fond of my surfer/hippy attire.