Pandemic business supports may be extended, and fear of another lockdown is driving change in public behaviour with 45% of people cancelling their  Christmas plans but are people still getting the basics wrong? To discuss this further we spoke to Kingston Mills, Professor in experimental immunology at TCD and also Louise O'Reilly, Sinn Féin TD for Dublin Fingal and Sinn Fein Spokesperson on Workers' Rights, Enterprise, Trade, and Employment.

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