Karina Butler

Q&A: What’s changed with Covid-19 vaccines and will it cause delays?

Plan reassessed after ‘game-changer’ AstraZeneca vaccine ruled out for over-70s

Allowing pharmacies to give AstraZeneca jab to health workers could ‘speed up’ rollout

GPs could inoculate over-70s with other vaccines while pharmacists concentrate on younger groups

HSE to compile report into non-frontline staff receiving vaccines

Minister to meet chair of Coombe after family members of staff given ‘spare’ Covid-19 jabs

Q&A: Can I still pass Covid on after I’ve been vaccinated?

What effect will the vaccines have on the pandemic and will they work against known variants?

Ireland’s vaccine rollout: Can we stay at the top of the EU league table?

Ireland is now second in the EU vaccination league table. Can this pace be sustained?

Covid-19: Hospital defends vaccination of staff not working on frontline

St Vincent’s University Hospital says it did not want any of allocation from HSE wasted

Covid-19: How did Ireland fall from grace to its current 'worst-in-world' statistics?

We had more stringent restrictions, for longer, than most other places in Europe, so what’s going wrong?

Covid-19: Up to 2,500 could be hospitalised within fortnight, warns Nphet

One-quarter of all coronavirus hospitalisations have occurred since December 20th

Nphet gets three new members to boost infectious disease, scientific resources

Professors Mary Horgan, Karina Butler and Mark Ferguson added to State’s Covid-19 policy advisory body

State to examine extending period between vaccine shots

Extending period between shots could maximise numbers vaccinated in rollout

Prolonging interval between Covid vaccine shots to aid rollout speed examined

Extending period between shots could maximise numbers vaccinated in rollout

Coronavirus: 1,754 new cases and 11 more deaths reported as hospital numbers pass 500

Nphet warns 9,000 additional new cases will be reported in coming days

Flu vaccine uptake important despite zero cases reported – virologist

Dr Cillian de Gascun says too soon to say Covid-19 and flu ‘twindemic’ will not happen

State wary of potential for litigation with Covid jab as vaccinations begin on Tuesday

Up to 20,000 a week to be vaccinated from early January, says Minister for Health

Covid-19 vaccine: Everything we know so far about the rollout

The logistical programme underpinning the rollout is far from simple but there is a plan in place

Covid-19: All nursing home residents, staff could be vaccinated by February, taskforce head says

MacCraith says several ‘shippers’ of Pfizer jab would would arrive before year-end each with 5,000 doses

The beginning of the end: 10 things to know about Covid-19 vaccines

Almost a year since Covid-19 emerged, there is a chink of light at the end of the tunnel

Coronavirus vaccine: ‘By next summer, Covid will be close to a bad memory’

‘All we have at this point is a very promising press release. But the signs are very promising’

‘Stick your vaccine up your arse’ – the Covid-19 vaccine, the science and the sceptics

Covid-19 vaccine trials are advancing fast – but anti-vaccine sentiment is growing too

Lowest numbers in two weeks as one more Covid-19 related death and 35 new cases reported

Coronavirus test results for 210 workers at midlands plant all come back negative

Do we need to be concerned about taking a Covid-19 vaccine?

It is reasonable to be worried, but much thought and testing are going into getting it right

Concern at fall-off in childhood vaccinations during pandemic

GPs say fear of attending surgeries reducing take-up of measles and whooping cough jabs

Covid-19: What we know about the rare child illness potentially linked to coronavirus

Q&A: Seven children in Ireland have been investigated for a Kawasaki-like syndrome

Coronavirus: Number of deaths in State exceeds 1,500 mark

Cabinet to decide on Nphet advice on face coverings and other measures on Friday

Medics alerted about rare child illness perhaps related to Covid-19

HSE follows UK’s lead and warns of Kawasaki-like inflammatory symptom disease

Coronavirus: Irish paediatricians warned about rare syndrome as some UK children die

Researchers believe rare inflammatory syndrome is linked to Covid-19

Coronavirus and children: The red flag symptoms to watch for

Children can contract the virus, but generally have milder symptoms and better outcomes

Coronavirus deemed of ‘international concern’ by WHO

World health body decision taken as confirmed cases jumps to 7,834

HPV and flu vaccines: who needs them? What are the risks if you don’t get them?

Finding the information you need can prove difficult amid all the arguments today

Why we’ll be signing the dotted line when the HPV immunisation form arrives

The known facts are that Gardasil is safe and effective and that potential side-effects are extremely rare

Minister tells HPV vaccine opponents to ‘butt out’

HSE ramps up cervical cancer vaccine campaign in response to ‘disinformation’

Cervical cancer virus traces found in 15% of women screened

Only a small number of those testing positive had both subtypes linked to cervical disease

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