Exclusive fireside chat with infectious disease expert
Join a fireside chat with infectious diseases expert Prof Luke O’Neill & Cathal Friel on what to expect this Winter from COVID-19
Professor Luke O’Neill, world-renowned immunologist and Cathal Friel, Co-Founder of Poolbeg Pharma plc, will bring their expertise and insights in infectious diseases around Ireland, as they host a series of fireside chats on Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th September in Cork, Limerick, Galway, Belfast and Dublin.
Meet us in the Galmont Hotel in Galway for an evening get together on Wednesday 28th September to hear Prof O’Neill and Cathal Friel discuss and debate their views on what may be in store for us individually and what businesses can expect from this winter’s COVID-19 and flu season.
Register online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exclusive-fireside-chat-with-infectious-disease-expert-tickets-414768021317
Wed, 28 September 2022, 17:30 – 19:00
The Galmont Hotel & Spa, Lough Atalia Road H91 CYN3 Galway
*It is free to attend & tickets are on a first come, first served basis
Prof Luke O’Neill, a world-renowned immunologist and one of the most well-known and trusted voices of Ireland’s COVID-19 pandemic.
Cathal Friel is a co-founder and Chairman of Poolbeg Pharma plc. He is also co-founder of world-renowned infectious disease clinical trials company, Open Orphan plc. Cathal has had first-hand experience in dealing with COVID-19 over the last two years after running the world’s first COVID-19 human challenge clinical trials. Cathal was also one of the first people to say last December in a series of newspaper articles, that he believed, with the arrival of the Omicron strain, COVID-19 had peaked and much better times were ahead.
Cathal in particular will be articulating quite strongly that COVID-19 is over and going forward it needs to be treated like any other outbreak of the common cold or flu, whereby people simply stay at home if they feel sick, that there’s no further need for testing and that there should be absolutely no further lockdowns or restrictions from COVID-19. He will articulate that it’s very likely that we will see a fairly substantial rise in COVID-19 infections again in November/December, because those are the months every year when Coronaviruses i.e. COVID-19, circulate most widely. Likewise, August/September are the months where the common cold viruses peak and furthermore November/December are the months when influenza peaks. As such, going forward COVID-19 will peak each winter and everybody, including governments and businesses, need to now deal with it as they do with the common cold and flu outbreaks.
Poolbeg Pharma plc CEO Jeremy Skillington and CFO Ian O’Connell will outline the exciting work that Poolbeg has been doing in developing a portfolio of drugs to help protect us all against future pandemics and infectious diseases.
We would be delighted to welcome you, and any of your associates, to this exclusive event. Tea, coffee, wine and sandwiches will be served from 5.30pm and the team will be presenting their views and opinions from 6pm until 7pm while also being open to take questions from the floor.
