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Share this article It's now nearly a year since many people have been working from home either all or most of the time. This has caused disruption to many people's typical routine, and led to concerns around people's physical and mental health. Professionals are also highlighting potential back and neck problems resulting from people's sedentary lifestyles while remote working. Derek Cawley, a consultant spinal surgeon, told Late Breakfast with Mark Cagney that he and his colleagues have seen a trend since the pandemic began. He said: "I asked how many had seen an increased incident of pres...

Updated: 28 Dec 2020, 16:13 THE supply and availability of the Covid-19 vaccine will be the biggest cause of delays in Ireland's rollout, an immunology expert said. Professor of Experimental Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, Kingston Mills, said Pfizer do not have enough of the jab to go around, and are cranking up manufacturing to meets countries' needs. 3 Vaccines are beginning to be administered across the EU, including to this WWII veteran in Czech RepublicCredit: EPA 3 Prof Mills says Pfizer does not have enough doses for all the countries interested currentlyCredit: Virgin Media 3...

On Late Breakfast with Mark Cagney this morning, Professor MacCraith said four hospitals around the country will administer the vaccine to around 2,000 people in the coming days before it is rolled out to nursing homes early next week. He said around 40,000 doses will be arriving in Ireland every week in January and February and the programme will be ramped up “very quickly over the coming weeks.” “We won’t be holding vaccines back,” he said. “We will not be allowing vaccine to build up in our freezers, we will use them as quickly as we can get them. “Looking at this over the m...

On Late Breakfast with Mark Cagney this morning, Professor O’Neill said the vaccines will mark the “biggest medical advance in 100 years when we look back on it.” “The virus was only described on January 12th and within nine or ten months alter we have a vaccine in humans, it is incredible,” he said. “It is understandable people are anxious, asking how we can do this so fast and there is hesitancy but all we can do is reassure them. “The main reason is that if you put money into something, things will go faster. That is what happened here, they put thousands of people on the ca...

Share this article A 79-year-old Dublin grandmother has become the first person in the Republic to get the coronavirus vaccine. Annie Lynch, from the Liberties area, got the vaccine at St James’s Hospital this afternoon. The grandmother of 10 said she felt "very privileged" to have become the first person in Ireland to get the jab. CNM Deborah Cross administers first vaccine in Ireland to the inspirational Annie Lynch from the Liberties in St James’s Hospital today. Céim mór chun tosaigh. pic.twitter.com/Y64AE8TFew — Dr Colm Henry, CCO HSE Ireland (@CcoHse) December 29, 2020 Annie sai...