85% of over 60s get first COVID shot
(CNS): Government is inching towards its first vaccination target of inoculating 90% of the over 60s with both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. On Monday officials said that 85% of the over 60s have had one shot, which means the mandatory 14-day quarantine remains in place for at least another few weeks. In total, over 11% of the entire population have now received both doses, officials said.
Public health officials have not given a full breakdown of the vaccination numbers since the middle of last week. They said Monday that 23,208 shots have been administered but did not say to how many people.
Meanwhile, as the vaccination programme rolls on with all those in Stages 1 and 2 now invited to get vaccinated, travellers are still arriving in Cayman with the virus. There were three positive cases reported Monday, following six that were reported Friday evening.
All of these positive cases are among travellers who remain in isolation with 609 other people. At the moment there are 30 active cases of the virus among those who are isolating but just one person is said to be suffering symptoms of the virus.
Category: Health, Medical Health
assuming we have enough vaccine…this should be the plan.
24 hour vaccination centre opening hours
priority lines for priority people so they are guranteed their shot
open vaccination lines for everybody else.
get it done.
And where exactly do you think they are going to find the people to staff this 24 hour vaccine clinic.? They are already borrowing medical staff from the understaffed hospital and doctors offices to staff the clinic at the airport. Those people are doing that as a second job on top of their regular work. Where are you going to find these extra nurses who are going to staff this 24 hour clinic?
it can be done…just takes effort and some money.
It takes a minimum of 3-4 months to hire a nurse and bring him/her to the island, with licensing requirements to be met, original copies of college degrees, transcripts, interviews with the nursing board, police background checks, contracts to be drawn up and approved,, and on and on, followed by a month of orientation .., so if you think it’s just a matter of money, you are delusional.
You forgot the most necessary and but still missing piece. Intelligence. Instead you have John John in charge and still learning how to speak.
There are definitely ways to increase the manpower if there is demand for vaccines.
– If the vaccine clinic was open after-hours, nurses that work day jobs in doctors offices might be happy to pick up a few shifts for some extra pay.
– There are probably nurses on island that aren’t currently working in the field that might be willing to take a temporary assignment.
– Maybe look at the current hours of the clinic to see if certain hours are always underutilized. If so, drop those hours and add to an evening/night schedule.
Cayman Army!
Here’s a British Medical Journal 1 pager, as of today, on where humanity stands with variants, vaccines, and how well they seem to fair with what science has gathered so far:
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n597
Bottom line is that we are not out of the woods yet, but very fortunate to have such early access to Pfizer doses – please don’t skip your turn.
what is the point of your posts that you keep repeating?
cns:is this type of post relevant?
Open up the airport vaccinations to everyone..Why are we still doing only a few hundred a day while the hundreds, if not thousands, of the vaccines are in a freezer at the HSA.
We can get this done faster Cayman..Where is the political will? Who is in charge?
This is not the USA where we need to restrict the vaccines. Every time BA lands she brings more..Give it to those who want it and stop hanging around the airport everyday waiting for a few people to show up.
Let get “er” done.
We know that people who have been vaccinated can still carry and transmit the virus. Hopefully public health is keeping track of how many of the people testing positive claim to have been vaccinated.
There are literally dozens of trials being conducted on millions of people around the world right now looking at exactly that. Our handful of cases are statistically irrelevant.
Not irrelevant. Different genetic profile, geographic location, climate, sun exposure intensity etc.
None of those would have had an impact when they’ve just arrived here & are in quarantine.
Well, in EUA, you could say this is the big and live human trial. Admittedly, so far so good against UK variant, so-so in prepping immune system for South African, and two Brazilian.
Both Moderna and Pfizer BioNtech have submitted “boosters” that can either be a third shot, or modified second shot for this roll-out. That would hopefully conclude this nightmare sometime in the Fall of 2021.
Re-opening into a fourth wave and forfeiting the liberty we all enjoy here now, would be extraordinarily insensitive to the clinical realities onshore, and not bring in any offsetting revenue, except perhaps to the concentrated few elites that might stand to benefit here.
This is still a Public Health Emergency, and should not to be confused to be an Elite-owned Business Emergency. There should be a clear difference.
You talk rubbish!
The metric for re-opening should be public safety not some random vaccination percentage. We all recall how we were told that re-opening was the right choice but countries that did that are now in a mess:
– From the Guardian
In Jamaica, which won praise for containing its coronavirus outbreak last year, patients now overflow into corridors on chairs and stretchers in some hospitals, prompting the Caribbean nation to open three emergency field hospitals.
Reuters reports:
While global new infections start to decline, a handful of countries across the Caribbean, including the larger islands of Jamaica and Cuba, are suffering their worst outbreaks since the start of the pandemic following social gatherings over year-end, quarantine violations by visitors and growing complacency.
The number of total confirmed cases has almost doubled in the first two months of the year in Jamaica. It has risen around fourfold in Cuba, eightfold in Barbados and around tenfold in St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, according to Oxford University’s Our World in Data database.
In one of the most tourism-dependent regions of the world, authorities have had to reimpose lockdowns and curfews, while reducing flights and hiking quarantine restrictions, further delaying a revival of their fragile economies.
The percentage of the population vaccinated is only relevant if the vaccine works in relation to the variants causing disease. There is growing evidence that the vaccine’s being given may not work against some variants including the South African variant. From the Guardian today:L
AFP Reports:
Studies have shown the variant to be more resistant to most of the existing vaccines than the virus’ original form and other mutations.
Vaccinology professor Shabir Madhi, lead investigator on the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine trial in South Africa, said the local variant and a third wave of infections expected later this year were likely to hinder inoculation plans.
“We need to recalibrate our understanding of what we can actually achieve with Covid-19 vaccines,” Madhi told a virtual panel discussion.
“The notion of getting to herd immunity…at least with this first generation of Covid-19 vaccines, is extremely slim.”
“More resistant to vaccines” is not the same as “does not work.” The simple fact is the more people who are vaccinated against most of the variants gives the virus fewer opportunities to mutate again.
Definitely get vaccinated and hopefully that will help lessen the experience when we get infected with the different spike proteins and RNA virus packages that will dominate new cases this month. In some people, particularly those under 16, pregnant, frail, or allergic, pretending game-changing variants never emerged or aren’t the dominant strains, will probably result in avoidable deaths. The more contagious UK variant (for which the Pfizer vax seems to work well against) is expected to already be the dominant strain in the USA this month, just as the newly-invincible vaccinated start shunning previous COVID measures, removing their masks, avoiding social distancing, and previous congregation limits. A brutal Fourth Wave is already projected in USA by CDC for April as the South African, and two Brazilian variants start laying down all those newly vaccinated and previously infected, who falsely believe their immune systems have been conferred some kind of super-immunity by way of vaccination against last year’s problem. Though we all wish it were not so, until there are boosters to deal with the problematic new strains, we either need to proceed as though nothing has changed, or choose to order body bags, and deep freezers. Simple as that.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/11/pfizer-vaccine-strong-response-new-covid-variants