Double dose rate inches upward to 69%

| 16/08/2021 | 55 Comments

(CNS): After almost two weeks of the needle being stuck on the national COVID-19 vaccination rate for both doses, it finally moved one percentage point on Monday to 69% after 202 people got their second does over the last four days. But since public officials last released vaccination numbers on Thursday, just 239 people came forward for their first shot. So far, 50,884 people have had at least one shot, which is 72% of the estimated population and several thousand people short of government’s 80% target by 9 September.

Meanwhile, five travellers among the 826 people currently in isolation and quarantine have tested positive for the coronavirus. There are six active cases of the virus among those in isolation and while two people are suffering symptoms, no one has been hospitalised.

The clinic was closed Monday but will reopen Tuesday morning at 9am.

See the vaccine schedule on the HSA website here.

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  1. Anonymous says:

    Headline should read: “Dutifully Vaccinated continue to be smothered with Incongruent Policy”. What is the point of getting over the finish line if there is no cheese?

    • Hubert says:

      Canadian banks announced yesterday that all employees must be fully vaccinated or employees will be forced to find other jobs.

      Time for the Royal Bank, Scotiabank, and CIBC in the Cayman Islands to step up and make vaccinations mandatory for all their employees here.

      This stupidity has to end with the unvaccinated.

  2. Anonymous says:

    It is now official in the US – In order to have the best protection against the Delta variant everybody should get a booster 8 months after their second shot.

    Hopefully somebody in the Ministry of Health, Public Health, HSA is paying attention. When Delta arrives we will need all the protection we can get.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-booster-recommendation-1.6144867

  3. Anonymous says:

    What an embarrassment to Cayman. Unvaccinated people are dying all over the world, begging for vaccines, we have had them since January for free and 8 months later some adults still can’t be bothered and are too lazy in a tiny island to travel 5 mins and get a jab, then do it again 3 weeks later. Disgraceful – they should be ashamed. I assume the same people if they were in trouble would call 911 and expect a swift ambulance arrival? No different – makes me so angry. A true embarrassment.

    • Anon says:

      This experimental gene therapy is reckless and unnecessary. How did Trump recover? How did Boris Johnson? Nothing to do with laziness. Maybe you like sticking trillions of synthetic RNA into your body not knowing the long term side effects, maybe you can’t be hassled with quarantining, maybe you like giving Pfizer and these other companies are liability exemption when you have a blood clot.

      CNS: Trump became dangerously ill and survived because he had access to the extraordinary care and treatment, some of it experimental, that normal Americans did not. Because of his position he was able to get a rushed “compassionate use” exception by the FDA for some of his treatment – because it was not at that point approved.
      Inside the extraordinary effort to save Trump from covid-19
      BJ was also extremely ill and spent time an intensive care unit (ICU). Neither man apparently wanted to repeat the experience and both have since been vaccinated, BJ publicly, as he should: COVID-19: Boris Johnson receives second dose of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
      And Trump quietly so that he could benefit without encouraging his adoring fans to do the same: Trump and his wife received coronavirus vaccine before leaving the White House.

    • Anonymous says:

      1:31
      Wash your mouth with a soap. Sign up for anger management classes. Learn how to debate civilly.

      Based on the comments content, Communication skills must be taught in Cayman schools and offered to the members of public for free.

      • Anonymous says:

        My comment is perfectly civil and fair, and well communicated. Personally I think it’s a disgrace that some people have still not bothered to get a jab and they don’t know how lucky they are to have had the UK supply them so early. I think they are ungrateful and uneducated.

    • Big Bobo In West Bay says:

      1:31 is correct. This is an embarrassment for Cayman and is disgraceful.

      We have now reached the point where the Cayman Islands Government needs to show real leadership and make it mandatory that all civil servants get vaccinated. This should include all teachers.

      We are never going to be able to open soon the way we are going with vaccinations, and also having Florida on fire with COVID just next door.

  4. Anonymous says:

    Using an overinflated population means we’ll never hit that magic 80%.

    • Anonymous says:

      That’s the PACT plan

    • Anonymous says:

      The CMO would prefer you use the term “at the upper end of the 95% confidence level” rather than over inflated 😉 God forbid we should use the lower end and find out that we have already hit the 80%.

  5. Hen Pal says:

    I hope we have boosters for our roosters, it seems our people cannot do without them.

  6. W says:

    Open up. No point in hanging around for the stupid or those who get their medical advice from OAN and Facebook.

  7. Anonymous says:

    The insanity continues. The vax’s are waning all over the world, people getting 3rd and 4th shots now. We’re locked away because we can’t count the population and on top of that we’ve magic’d up a random % to hit for a herd immunity that is actually impossible to come to fruition because the vaccines don’t stop transmission anyhow.

    What an absolutely joke of a world we live in, everyone paralyzed by completely irrational fear. (The average age of covid deaths is higher than the average age of expected lifespan and the global population is increasing – some pandemic)

  8. Anonymous says:

    stop.
    this is the only question that should be asked:
    what will happen if cayman opens up….who will get sick and how many and can our helath service cope?
    it’s a very simple equation that should be the basis of any covid suppresion plan.
    somebody ask the real questions!!!

  9. Anonymous says:

    80% figure is unreachable but it don’t matter. cayman has no plan to deal with covid when it gets here. the real plan is to to keep borders closed as long as possible….until worl re-opens fully next year.

  10. Anonymous says:

    New Zealand’s re-opening plan seems very sensible –

    “New Zealand will use a risk-based travel approach where travellers would be divided into three entry pathways based on vaccination status and where they are coming from.

    Quarantine-free entry would be allowed only for vaccinated travellers who had been in low-risk countries. Medium-risk travellers would have reduced quarantine, potentially at home. High-risk travellers would continue with 14 days in managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities. All groups would have pre-travel and post-travel testing, as they largely do now. The extent of quarantine-free entry will be highly dependent on which other countries have been able to suppress or eliminate transmission, which will in turn depend on how the pandemic continues to evolve internationally..

    This strategy has given the country the lowest Covid-19 mortality in the OECD and supported good economic recovery and low unemployment. It has resulted in very little time spent in lockdown (as reflected in the Oxford Stringency Index), providing New Zealanders with the unusual experience of maintaining near-normality in their daily lives during this global health crisis.

    Elimination offers several additional benefits. It buys time before the population is exposed to high levels of the circulating pandemic virus, allowing decision-makers to gain a better understanding of how the virus behaves and how best to control its impacts on population health and wellbeing. New Zealand is closely observing international evidence about the full impact of the virus on children, given the possibility that widespread infection could result in a legacy of long-term health issues, including cognitive impairment.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2021/aug/13/sticking-to-a-covid-elimination-strategy-keeps-new-zealands-options-open

  11. Anonymous says:

    Now its time for boosters – hopefully soon. Guardian

    “All Americans should have Covid-19 vaccine booster shots eight months after they received their second dose, experts are expected to recommend, as officials race to stop the Delta variant spreading across the country….

    The country is experiencing a fourth surge due to the more transmissible Delta variant, which is spreading aggressively through unvaccinated communities.

    The variant has also been responsible for a small and less severe proportion of “breakthrough” cases in vaccinated individuals, though hospitalization and death from Covid-19 is rare in this group. More than 99% of the deaths of people with Covid-19 have been among the unvaccinated.”

  12. Anonymous says:

    Can you ask if government is going to lock down once we get a community transmission case? I want to be prepared for it just in case. Since we are following NZ and they are locking the whole country down because of one case and all…

    I personally feel that it’s ridiculous to think any country can avoid the virus at this point. No more lockdowns; when the virus gets here I trust we can just live with it like every other country in the world does.

    https://news.yahoo.com/one-virus-case-puts-zealand-071243003.html

  13. Anonymous says:

    If you go off yesterday’s advice in the US, those vaccinated in January or before should now be scheduled for a booster.

  14. Anonymous says:

    Best the unvaccinated get their shot ASAP. It will make no difference with the border open or closed it is just a matter of time till it pops up in the community.

    Just look at New Zealand and Australia.

    We may as well just get on with it and set a real opening date in the next month. Plenty of time for the people that want to finally take the vaccine to get it.

  15. Anonymous says:

    It is the overestimate pop causing hold out on vaccine coverage not just under 30s even that might be overestimate and the people r not here.

  16. Anonymous says:

    Can’t vaccinate people who don’t exist…

  17. Anonymous says:

    It is time for Chief Medical officer or Medical officer of Health or HSA to give public advice with confidence just like CdC instead of just reporting vaccine doses and wuarantine people.
    If they do Public will develop confidence in health care system.as of now it is left as if Govt to blame. Yes Govts do declare the policy decisions on the advice of the health professionals.
    I have not seen any CNS or Compass article on this with advice of CMO or health officials.We need from Health on how it is going to be when we open borders rather than simply 80 percent ss if we need not worry if 80 percent.
    Pl understand

  18. Anonymous says:

    Whats the plan Mr Premier?

    It’s time to show yourself at a press conference and an update for your people.

    Not just people here on the Islands want to know but tourists with bookings for November want to know.

    • Hubert says:

      The plan is clear. Get vaccinated everyone in the Cayman Islands over the age of 12.

      Do that and we can open up to some places such as Canada where over 75% of the people are vaccinated.

      So simply really if so many people were not so stupid.

  19. Anonymous says:

    *72% of the upper 95% confidence interval band for the estimated population.

    The estimated population remains 66k, as the Compass reported on Monday (https://www.caymancompass.com/2021/08/15/government-using-upper-limit-of-error-margin-to-estimate-population/)

  20. Anonymous says:

    Based on ESO used highest possible estimate the rate of 80 percent is imaginative.Irrespective of vaccination rate we r going to have cases when borders open as Covid is going to be around the world like flu. So public and Govt shld prepare for living along with it. Once US cases come down we can open borders . Meanwhile let us prepare rather waiting for magic 80 percent and still get cases.

  21. Anonymous says:

    People don’t get the jab, kep the borders closed, keep getting
    the government tourism money hand out , everything are great the way it is. Next year when hopeful the virus will DIE down in U S, Then is ok to open the borders. Cayman are during great, leave it as it is.

    • Anonymous says:

      We have to learn the hard way. Don’t get the jab then keep the island closed.

      We don’t need a Florida situation here.

  22. Anonymous says:

    Thank you dms for providing a monetary incentive. I only hope the person who wins was vaxxed months ago.

  23. Anonymous says:

    An sum people whey no believe in dem ting

  24. Anonymous says:

    It’s the under 30’s that are holding out.

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