Walk-in vaccination centre open on campus this week

Posted on: 10 January 2022

The College Health Service is operating a walk-in Covid-19 vaccination centre in the Dining Hall, Front Square from Monday 10 January until Thursday 13 January 2022. Vaccination will be available to all Trinity students and staff from 10am until 4pm each day.

The College community can attend for booster doses, or first or second doses for those who have not yet commenced or completed an initial vaccination course.

Please note, if you have contracted Covid-19 after being fully vaccinated, you must wait for three months after the diagnosis before attending for a Booster vaccine.

Don’t forget to bring your Digital Covid Certificate or proof of previous vaccination, in addition to your PPS number. You will also need to provide the College Health Service team with a mobile number and email address to facilitate the updating of your Digital Covid Certificate.

“We actively encourage all members of the College Community to take up the vaccine. It has been well proven, with multiple scientific studies over the past 12 months or so, to dramatically reduce the risk of serious illness, hospitalisation and death in those who are infected with the SARS CoV-2 virus and develop Covid-19,” said Dr David McGrath, medical director of the College Health Service.

“Although the Omicron variant appears to cause less severe disease for most people, we can see from the hospital admission figures from Christmas Day until yesterday, where in-patients with Covid-19 have increased from 378 to 928 in this short time frame, that many people are becoming sick and requiring additional medical intervention”.

“In particular, I appeal to those who have not yet come forward for vaccination because of hesitancy about new vaccines or who have struggled with the onslaught of the anti-vaccination social media campaign to look at the evidence of the vaccines that are now in use for the past year or so in our Country,” Dr McGrath continued.

Between January and March last year, over 3,000 unvaccinated Irish people died from Covid-19.

Unvaccinated people remain at great risk in 2022 so think about joining the over three and a half million Irish people who have dramatically reduced their risk by becoming vaccinated.