Latest COVID-19 tests all negative
(CNS): Test results for COVID-19 reported Tuesday were all negative again, after a near two week stretch without any cases of the coronavirus being confirmed was broken yesterday with two positive cases. Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee said the 190 tests conducted over the last 24 hours were all were negative. Cayman now has just two active cases of the virus and both individuals are asymptomatic.
Public health officials have carried out 26,919 tests, with a positive tally of just 203 since testing began in March.
Over the last two weeks 2,850 tests have been conducted and just two were positive. One of the individuals had returned to Cayman from overseas and is currently in government quarantine facilities, and the second was a resident who appears to have contracted the virus in the community.
Yesterday Governor Martyn Roper urged everyone to keep practicing social distancing, good hygiene and wearing masks in public.
“We can all be proud of having collectively created a safe haven on our Islands. But we will need to maintain our discipline and good behaviours to keep it that way,” Roper said in his Facebook posting.
Testing continues to be open to the public and HSA officials are urging anyone wanting to travel to the Sister Islands from Grand Cayman to fill out this form at least three business days prior to travel to schedule a test. Government regulations state that individuals traveling to the Sister Islands require a negative COVID-19 result 48 hours prior to travel.
Once a person has registered, they will be tested the following day, Monday through Saturday between 7:30am and 9:00am at the COVID-19 Testing Clinic at the George Town General Practice.
Travellers are asked to arrive for their scheduled appointment on time, in order to get the results in time. These will then be emailed to the traveller, who is asked to self-isolate until the flight, and to government’s TravelTime.
People travelling on a Monday or the weekend must ensure they schedule the test with enough time to get the results before the flight.
Meanwhile, as the borders remain closed, evacuation flights continue. The next repatriation flight is to the Philippines and anyone from the Filipino community wanting to return home on that flight, which departs on Tuesday 28 July, must book by 5pm tomorrow, Wednesday 15 July.
If you want to fly out on this flight, email GovernorsOffice.Cayman@fco.gov.uk
Anyone needing to travel elsewhere in the coming weeks should register online with TravelTime here or call 649-6913 from 8:30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday or email traveltime@gov.ky
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We really should know where the local case was caught. Then people around that area can get tested.
12 mile bank
Caught? They are having to hunt people down to test now? Heard it was uncomfortable and it was hard getting people to volunteer but didn’t realise it had come to that.
Really? You are asking our government to be transparent? I’m so sorry, they are too busy counting the 800 deaths.
Are we re-testing the same people over and over to get these numbers? How many tests are being done on the basis of random testing that might provide information on the prevalence of the disease in the community????
Agreed. As a frontline worker, i have been tested twice now and go back next week for #3. So the number of test is false as it includes persons who are being retested. Its not 21K individual or single test
Nobody ever said it would be a one time deal. Frontline workers have to continue to be tested on an ongoing basis because you are constantly being exposed to people, plus all the other people they have been exposed to for the previous 14 days.
And yet, we have no deaths. Please recall this was a KILLER virus.
From CNN today
There are currently 54 hospitals that have reached ICU capacity in Florida and show zero ICU beds available, according to data released by the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). Ten of those hospitals are in Miami-Dade County, the epicenter of the virus in the state.
Another Florida 40 hospitals show ICU’s at 10% available capacity or less, according to the AHCA data.
Miami-Dade County officials reported a staggering 31% Covid-19 positivity rate on Tuesday, according to data released by the county’s government.
In the past 13 days, the county has seen an increase in the number of Covid-19 patients being hospitalized (56%), in the number of ICU beds being used (65%) and in the use of ventilators (92%), according to the latest county data.
This hospitalization data comes as the state continues to report new records. The Florida Department of Health reported at least 9,194 new cases and an additional 132 deaths on Tuesday, the most deaths in one day in the state.
Some Covidiots will read the above and say that this information supports the need to open the border and fly in hundreds of infected people.
No some of us would say open up but require RT- PCR 72 hour before travel then 72 hours after arrivals. Maybe even again at 10 days.
But what all us idiots know is that we need to open some time soon to live.
12:07 We are living just fine right now without the virus running rampant. No amount of money is worth us allowing people in from the States.
So you will hire me? Give me a job so that I can live somewhere and feed my family?
Plenty of jobs in quarantine related services, construction, and unpaid insurance and pension related legal actions.
To die. We open up and there’s a 1000 dead, and 1000’s more unwell with varying lifelong medical complications. That’s the law of big numbers, and why we’re closed.
That’s pretty good math. Florida has 21,500,000 and 4,500 dead. To reach your numbers the death toll in Florida would have to reach 358,405 deaths. It is this kind of insanity that is causing Cayman so many problems. Utter madness on on your part.
PCR tests impossible to get in South Florida right now. And results take 7-10 days. There is not a viable plan for pre testing anyone who wants to travel right now in Miami . And another Stay at Home order may be imminent.
54 Florida hospitals are now at ICU capacity and dozens of more hospitals are at risk.
There is a full scale health catastrophe underway in America.
Keep Cayman closed to Americans as the virus is rapidly spreading throughout the southern U.S. now. Still the President plays down the risk as we hit 137,000 deaths in 5 months while Trump and his White House advisers spend their time attacking Dr. Fauci, the #1 expert on pandemics in America.
A total failure of leadership by the American Government.
What about the other 249 hospitals in Florida Hubert? What is the death rate Hubert? What is the average age of deaths Hubert? What about the all the other States Hubert? What makes you an expert Hubert?
I am an expert because I can read statistics with a basic knowledge of mathematics. I can read rates related to coronavirus cases throughout the U.S. as well as growing death rates in the majority of American states. You can also, if you dig deeper look at rates for individual counties in Florida. Very concerning to say the least.
I can also read the information / stats on coronavirus from European Union countries and Canada. One does not really have to be an expert to do that.
On top of that I have listened for the past 3 months to doctors, nurses and scientists.
Just spend half an hour studying the stats from Johns Hopkins University. Believe me, you do not have to be an expert. You just need a bit of common sense and an ability to understand death rates.
10:24, Suggest you Google Florida Coronavirus Map and Case Count – The New York Times
Read and study and you can also be an expert like Hubert. Just give it a try. You can do it.
I guess you missed the bit where it states in one lab alone, over 60,000 tests were mishandled and therefore invalid. Now investigating the rest of them to see how they were handled…
OMG. Please tell me you didn’t say that. That was not on CNN so it couldn’t possibly be true.
Reunited – Florida health care company AdventHealth said its possible that as many as 33,000 Florida people who took COVID-19 tests may have been told incorrect results, or received no results at all. AdventHealth puts the blame directly on a third-party lab; however, theyve refused to identify that lab.
At this point when Covid19 is politicized, when tests results are not trustworthy, when classification of hospitals deaths is biased towards Covid19 per guidelines, any sane person would refocus on something other than pandemic statistics.
Well I guess Trump is a sane person because he says all the stats lie? Trump says “if we did not have so much testing we would not have coronavirus high coronavirus numbers”. Just think about that. If we don’t test then we have no virus. What idiocy. If you believe that you are a fool.
Thank God the European Union leaders and Canadian PM rely on their stats. America is dying.
Listen to the doctors and nurses in Houston, Miami / Dade, Phoenix, Los Angeles. They all say the same thing “we have a public health disaster and it is getting worse”. The ICU beds are near capacity and the deaths are mounting fast. In fact, Miami / Dade is out of ICU beds today.
138,000 deaths and 3.5 million cases. Think about those 2 stats. All in 4 months.
Oh, but you probably believe all those doctors and nurses are making everything up.
You are an absolute idiot. Globally most deaths were people who were already in the departure lunge.
Trump announced today that the Center For Disease Control will no longer get the American crucial virus data from all over America. The info will no longer be public. What Is the White House trying to hide?
Just like us. All we get positive / negative / asymptomatic. Brilliant.
All the ICU beds in Miami / Dade county are now occupied. New beds only open up as patients die. That stat is good enough for me. I will focus on that stat. We have a serious problem in Florida and the situation is deteriorating by the day.
The Governor in Florida is playing games with stats to support his political goals. 😢 😢 Sad. But you can focus on something else than pandemic statistics just like Trump who ignores all the stats when they are bad.
One of the retirement centers of the world. Go figure, old people are dying. It just makes no sense at all on a spoilt. unreligious world, where death is unacceptable.
4:07, So why as of today, is all American hospital data on the virus bypassing CDC and going directly to Trump?
Donald Trump does not want you to focus on pandemic statistics 4:07. Do you get it?
Trump wants you to go out and buy Goya beans. #1 priority yesterday. Great ads in the White House for Goya from the President and his daughter.
Oh Lord, help America. They are totally lost and need guidance from somewhere / anywhere.
Maybe Goya beans will save us?
Let’s assume Alden’s prediction of a thousand positives comes through. Do we need to higher auditors to break the information down into districts, male, female, other, age range, underlying health, community spread, travel, travel from where? I’m talking about the local population. I’m tired of reading one death, which is useless local information. When a baby is born here to a foreigner, the baby is not deemed local! Why an auditor? Our government hasn’t been able to provide such information when there were ten cases, so it’s fair to assume the exercise is far too complicated for them. What if 50 cases came from the UK versus 5? Was this pre or post government quarantine? Was it teenagers running around causing problems? What is the local death rate of this deadly virus? Do we have to government quarantine Justices of the Peace? Doctors? Judges? Maybe everyone flying in is deemed incompetent because the government itself is incapable of dispensing detailed information?
What planet are you on? Can’t you read? There are just 2 ASYMPTOMATIC active cases, and there has been just one death (a fellow taken off of a ship because he had a second heart attack. In fact, it is possible that the heart attack, and not the Covid 19, killed him). The Government program has successfully avoided any Covid 19 deaths. Why not just give credit where it is due.
I personally believe that the program was a mistake because of the societal and economic damage it has caused, but the program has achieved the CIG’s stated goals.
And where exactly did the one travel case come from?
Just like other Caribbean islands who did nothing at all. Don’t be too Caymancentric. The government is filled with incompetence and cowards. They don’t have a clue what is going on. Do you consider our Health Minister to be a champion of global health knowledge? After all, he’s who we put forward as our representative, our authority, our intelligence on Covid-19. I’m sure he has 100% of your supprort.
Florida University.
From the Guardian reporting on the New Zealand Prime Minister’s perspective
More from Jacinda Ardern’s speech laying out her plans for the possibility that Covid-19 re-emerges domestically in New Zealand.
“When we closed our borders on the 19th of March there were 240,000 cases in the world in total,” she is telling reporters at a news conference in Wellington. “It’s fifty times worse than that now.
She is right.
Other than we’ve learnt it’s 50 times less deadly than first thought. Besides NZ is a horrible model to follow. Government there took pay cuts.
Yes, here it’s been less deadly. Not elsewhere.
I less deadly than was predicted when they locked down.
They all claimed back in February it was 10%.
Death is the wrong yardstick. This is not a flu.
“I got Covid-19 two months ago. I’m still discovering new areas of damage — Richard Quest”
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/07/health/richard-quest-covid-wellness-intl/index.html
Deaths is the ONLY yardstick. Do you really care if I’m ill?
Of course. Why on earth would we use deaths as a yardstick in a global pandemic? That makes no sense. Rather we should use, how may ball games have I missed? How may days did I stay home? How many days was I not allowed to exercise or get sunshine? How many days of school did my kids miss. Indeed, those would be more appropriate yardsticks than deaths.
Wow. The whole premise of shut down was how many millions would die. Now that deaths are not materializing, deaths are the wrong yardstick?
Are the numbers being reported recently mostly re-tests of front line workers previously tested? Have we stopped trying to determine the prevalence in the community?
Test numbers down again. Soon its just going to be Dr Lee getting tested over and over again.
have you gone in to be tested?
Not sure it’s even open to volunteers- and why would you volunteer if asymptomatic? It’s not as if self selection is going to have any statistical validity for Dr Lee in understanding community spread now, is it?
YES it is open to ALL do try to keep up
Someone cleaned the machine again after yesterday.
Clever! Locally here in Florida Orlando Health Hospital corrected it’s test positives from 97% down to 9%! Maybe they cleaned their machines too.
As Mark Twain once said: “There are 3 types of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and STATISTICS!.”
Orlando Health spokeswoman today said that there was a major error in the 9% figure and they are looking into what is perceived by Doctors as an incorrect statistic.
America’s health system is seriously flawed.
Watch Dallas Buyers Club. Great Health Care System of money over health. and truth.
The American health care system and private health insurance system is a total joke. American public health care policy has clearly been demonstrated to be a disaster. All one had to do is look and compare what has happened the past 6 months in the European Union countries and Canada and then look at America.
The profit needs to be taken out of American health care.
Health should be the top priority not corporate profits in America.
statistics aren’t lies they’re just numbers. it’s the evaluation, analysis and understa ding of those stats that is often a lie, which is always down to human bias and human error. you muppet.
12:26, The problem in Florida is that the Governor and his senior political staff are now leading a campaign of disinformation on the stats so as to not give credibility to the doctors and scientists in Florida.
This is the exact same strategy as utilized by his leader Trump which is unnecessarily killing thousands of Americans.
The muppet in this case is the Florida Governor who wants happy news every day while the crap is falling all around him. I dare say, you are probably one of his muppet followers too.
i was replying to mark twain quote. u muppet.
Oh sorry, I thought you were referring to Kermit The Frog, my favorite muppet, you muppet.