Over the last few weeks the government has faced scrutiny over its messaging around Covid-19 restrictions and the vaccine rollout.

More so than ever it is clear that we rely on effective science communication to deliver the key public health messages we need in order to best combat the pandemic.

Jonathan McCrea, presenter of Futureproof here at Newstalk and founder of SCI:COM - a science communications conference which will be taking place this week Mrach 9th & 10th - joined Susan to discuss.

For more details see scicom.ie

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