'There's been a lot of collateral damage from closing down schools' during the pandemic.
That's the reaction of Professor Jack Lambert of UCD to Professor Martin Cormican of NPHET, saying the long-term closure of schools was wrong.
Professor Cormican has told the Irish Independent some of the National Public Health Emergency Team's decisions during Covid 19 were 'inhumane'.
Dr Lambert who's a professor of Medicine Infectious Disease says they should have realised the impact of lockdown on children
