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Long Term Lockdowns Don't Work

We have now been under level five lockdown for three consecutive months, but daily figures have f...

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07.53 30 Mar 2021


Long Term Lockdowns Don't Work


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07.53 30 Mar 2021


We have now been under level five lockdown for three consecutive months, but daily figures have frustratingly stagnated far above the levels we’d hoped to achieve.  Is it time to consider that long term lockdowns simply don’t work?  To discuss we heard from Patricia Casey, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry in UCD and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Mater Hospital.

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