The sacrifices made by the public during the pandemic to reduce the pressures on acute hospitals will be for nothing if we continue to have multiple occupancy rooms in hospitals that's the warning from Professor Hilary Humphreys, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Microbiology at RCSI who joined us on Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

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