Volume 21 (2020)

Volume 21 (2020)

Publication of Epi Insight was suspended for six months in 2020 due to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Volume 21, Issue 5, November 2020
This issue contains:

• Influenza season 2020-2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Uptake of the seasonal influenza vaccine in health care workers in acute hospitals and of both HCWs and residents in long term/residential care facilities in Ireland in 2019-2020
• European Antibiotic Awareness Day 18th November 2020
• ESCMID and an observership visit to Slovenia
• National hand hygiene observational audit November /December 2020
• Factors associated with lower knowledge of STI and HIV transmission, testing & treatment among MSM in Ireland
• News round up
• Latest Reports and Publications

Volume 21, Issue 4, September 2020

This issue contains:

• COVID-19 in Ireland
• Epidemiological report of COVID-19 cases in Ireland, 2 March 2020 – 15 August 2020
• COVID-19 surveillance robot project
• Epidemiological modelling of COVID-19 in Ireland
• SCOPI COVID-19 antibody research study results report launched
• The 2020/2021 influenza season and influenza vaccination for children
• ECDC Fellowship Programme: the Irish experience
• News round up
• Latest Reports and Publications

Volume 21, Issue 3, March 2020

This issue contains:

• Minister for Health signs regulations to make COVID-19 a notifiable disease in Ireland
• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) - Situation Update
• First case of confirmed rubella infection in Ireland in a decade
• World TB Day - March 24th 2020
• Protecting yourself and your patients using PPE
• COVID-19 micro e-learning course
• News round up
• Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
• Temporary suspension of publication

Volume 21, Issue 2, February 2020 

This issue contains:

• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) - Situation Update
• Ongoing mumps outbreak in Ireland, 2018-2020
• HSE launched national campaign to address HIV related stigma
• 2018/2019 influenza season
• Cross-border sharing of public health data e-learning course
• News round up
• Latest HPSC Reports and Publications

Volume 21, Issue 1, January 2020 

This issue contains:

• Vaccine uptake among healthcare workers: 2019/20 influenza season update
• The end of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)?
• Mushroom Poisoning, a Public Health issue
• “Etoiles de l’Europe” 2019 award for European vaccine surveillance projects, involving Ireland
• Stool Bank Ireland receives Slaintecare funding
• Winter Scientific Meeting of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine
• Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
• News round up

Last updated: 9 November 2020