Rotary Ireland confirms its Virtual Conference 2021 will be open to public for free! Dr. Ian Norton says vaccination is a privilege and urges people to counter misinformation about vaccines, particularly on social media Reporter: Wednesday 3 March 2021 9:58 A medical emergency expert has warned that the race is on between the vaccines and the variants of the coronavirus and said its vital the most vulnerable people in society are vaccinated as quickly as possible before these variants begin to circle around. Dr Ian Norton, a former head of the WHO’s Emergency Medical Team Initiative in Geneva, who’s from Cork, described vaccination as a privilege and urged people to get vaccinated.