‘Trusted’ travellers get wristbands for ID
(CNS): People travelling to Cayman who have had a verifiable vaccine against COVID-19 are now allowed to isolate at home on trust, but government is still issuing them with wristbands to ensure that the monitoring team can quickly identify them during welfare checks and make sure they are not mixing with friends and family while they are in isolation. Officials confirmed that as the first travellers quarantining on ‘trust’ begin to arrive, they will be closely monitored even without the GPS tags.
Anyone arriving with an unverifiable vaccination must still quarantine for ten days with the GPS bands, and all unvaccinated groups, including families with children, must isolate for 14 days either in a government facility or at home with the tag.
Two more travellers in isolation have tested positive for the virus. There are currently five active cases of coronavirus among those in quarantine. Only one person is symptomatic and no one is in hospital.
Meanwhile, there was little change in the vaccine numbers on Thursday, with the national rate for those fully vaccinated still at 68%. Just 75 more people got their first shot over the last day and 54 their second dose.
See the vaccine schedule on the HSA website here.
For more information on vaccines contact the HSA Communications team at
communications@hsa.kySee here for more information on securely verifiable vaccination records.
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7.9 Billion world population
4.3 million died with a positive PCR test within 28 days
Average chance of dying with COVID = 0.054%
Cayman population 75000
Average deaths with COVID in Cayman = 40.8 people
It doesn’t work like that.
The figires were of pre vaccination period. The data of vaccinated need to be used
Would be much lower due to the vaccination rate, but agree this shows a reason to open the borders. Those 40 people would be unvaccinated and have made their choice. And our hospitals can manage these numbers.
When will we accept that everyone will get COVID eventually. Just like everyone has had a cold or the flu. There is no way to avoid that outcome. Once we accept that and stop thinking that by magic, the grace of god, or isolating ourselves we can avoid it we can begin to make rational decisions about getting vaccinated or not and how we can live and thrive in spite of COVID.
Agree. Moreover, I doubt the virus/variants will attenuate until it has truly spread throughout the world communities.
How many times can one get Covid . If one had the covid, do they still need to get the vaccine ?
“The chance of dying from COVID-19 is about one in 200 for an unvaccinated person, while the chance of adverse events from an mRNA vaccine is about 2 to 4 per million”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/breakthrough-covid-infections-show-the-unvaccinated-are-now-putting-the-vaccinated-at-risk
Excellent post. Unfortunately antivaxxers do not do fractions or probabilities or information or logic as terms are generally understood.
What a load of rubbish. 1 in 200 = 0.5%
Around 20,000 unvaccinated
100 people aren’t going to die in Cayman from COVID.
7:19, Completely open up to Florida today and I will guarantee you that by Christmas 100 unvaccinated people will die in the Cayman Islands. Most of those would be with underlying conditions.
How many ventilators do we have on island?
Nobody can stop me from getting blind drunk and driving my truck anywhere I want. Nobody can make me get any vaccine or make me wear a mask or stop me from spreading any virus I want – same argument really.
Aren’t you a self centered, narcisstic, SOB. 3:17?
Certain you are a delightful individual loved by all. 😂 😆 😝
People like you are why we will not be opening for a long time here.
Ever consider moving to Florida? They will love you there.
US is about to start offering boosters. Hopefully they will be offered in Cayman as providing boosters is better than sending the vaccine that the anti-vaxxers don’t want to the dump.
“The United States is set to offer some Americans Covid booster jabs within months, according to reports.
The New York Times said today that US president Joe Biden’s administration is developing plans for third shots of the vaccine by the autumn.
It is understood the first boosters are likely to be made available to nursing home residents and health care workers, then older people.
Officials plan to give people the same vaccine that they received initially, the newspaper reported.”
In Delta we don’t trust – Guardian
“The number of children in hospital with Covid in the United States has hit record highs due to Delta variant outbreaks.
There were 1,902 children in American hospitals as of Saturday, making up 2.4 per cent of the nation’s coronavirus hospitalisations, reports the Reuters news agency.
It is understood hospitals across the south have been left stretched to capacity because of outbreaks of the highly transmissible Delta variant, which originated in India.
The figures were provided by the US Department of Health and Human Resources.”
Pay for a Times subscription and stop reading the guardian
Great article in the daily Telegraph today about countries like Australia and New Zealand who are trying to take a zero Covid approach and shutting down to the world, and how foreign investment is drying up and they are heading for their worst recession in 50 years. Very relevant to cayman, the conclusion:
‘ Countries can cut themselves off from the world if they want to. They can remain in permanent lockdown and prioritise public health over every other form of endeavour. In effect they are creating “hermit economies”, isolated from the rest of the world – and they are condemning themselves to eventual poverty. ’
Covid is never going away and we have an incredibly high vaccination rate. Time to open up.
What did you expect from a pro-business paper.
Socialist (anti-business) newspapers give the truth?
Here is an Australian report from July 2021 indicating that their economy is growing faster than expected and is bigger than it was before the lockdown. That is evidence that we should not open up.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-02/gdp-march-quarter-economic-growth-covid-rebound/100184004
More recently: Australia’s economy will be weak and in need of support after the pandemic, top economists say
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-01/australian-economy-weak-need-support-after-pandemic-economists/100256484
The FT thinks otherwise:
https://www.ft.com/content/ac98dd24-9edb-4618-a9af-5ab4cf892262
You are talking absolute rubbish to support a claim to open up. Our economy is nothing like Australia or New Zealand. Educate yourself before making such stupid comments.
Antibody testing should be rolled out to measure any waning effects on earlier vaccinations and/or any natural count from past exposure and recovery. If the 80% goal is to be clinically credible, it should tally everyone with Covid antibodies, not just those completed courses paying Pfizer shareholders for a vaccine against Covid-classic, circa early 2020. If we don’t equally measure those with recovery antibodies, it feels like we’ve lost track of what this effort is supposed to be accomplishing and why. There may be some that believe they had it, that didn’t, and who might need the vaccine now and not previously believed they needed it.
You want lab proof that your Pfizer vaccine does not stop Delta, here it is. What is scary is that being jabbed now with a vaccine based purely on the original strain could cause even more ADE in an evolved strain, beyond Delta. That’s why the Singapore viral load analysis showed a slightly higher viral load in vaccinated over the first five days. It’s not that simple folks.
https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00392-3/fulltext
CNS: I am not a scientist and neither are you. I did, however, read all the way to the end of the article linked, to where the authors said of the possibility of ADE occurring in people receiving vaccines: “the results obtained so far have been rather reassuring” but should be studied further. i.e. no link has been found yet but diligent scientists are keeping an eye on it.
Here’s more on the subject in a more digestible form: Do the COVID-19 vaccines cause vaccine enhanced disease?
Again, the vast majority of people getting very ill or dying are the unvaccinated, and they are getting younger. The negative effects of long-covid, which affects a significant proportion of people who have been ill with the disease, are increasingly apparent.
Thank you once again CNS – I am beginning to think that there are trolls out there who get off on spreading disinformation in the hope that some of our people will get sick and die.
CNS you seem to be exclusively getting your facts and science from the CDC and US press. The “vast majority” of people dying from covid in the UK right now have been double vaccinated.
CNS: Here is a very good explanation of that in The Conversation: Most COVID deaths in England now are in the vaccinated – here’s why that shouldn’t alarm you
Or look at this graph here. Since the UK began its vaccination drive the number of people dying from covid has dropped dramatically. This means that the number of vaccinated people dying is a percentage of a much much much smaller number.
Merci CNS
I’m no mathmetician but in order arrive at The Conversation assertion you have to ignore efficacy. Following this logic if 51% were vaccinated and 49% were not you would expect to see a death rate of 51 deaths per 100 in vaccinated people, which puts efficacy at 0%.
Any math quants care to give it a go with actual efficacy and the theory above? Last time I checked vaccine rates in the UK were 80%. First glance puts efficacy frighteningly low but again, I’m not a mathematician…
horse diarrhea.
Hi Delta, how are you? 😒
3:15, Doing great. I took out 357 people yesterday, and infected another 22,000 people in Florida.
I am on a roll. Coming soon to your island. Open up flights to Miami so I can come quicker.
Will pay you a personal visit but you need to assist me. Get those flights to Miami going.
Cousin Lambda here.
Can’t wait until the borders open up so I can stop by too.
I have read online everyone is very friendly and roaming about freely. Can’t wait to meet them all and experience the island life.
Ready to kick back, relax and make myself at home. I can mutate on island time.
My dad first visited for a short time last March and said he would love to come back as soon as possible to retire.
Can’t wait to see you cousin Lambda on Grand Cayman. Just remember I can take out way more people than you. Always show me respect.
Can’t wait for those Miami flights to start. Party time coming soon. Let’s see if we can get those hospitals in Cayman working hard just like in Florida.
Think Granddad Death DeSantis might want to come for a holiday in Cayman too? He has been working hard the past few weeks spreading B.S. about us in Florida? He told me he has lots of supporters in Cayman. Would love to meet them.
Love, Delta
Well protected against by the Pfizer and AstraZenica jab judging by what’s happening in the uk
Cruise ships are beyond trust for then next century of 2. Carnival just acknowledged 27 Covid positive within days of departure on latest cruise.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/carnival-cruise-ship-vista-covid-cases/index.html
Did you read the article at all? 26 of the 27 were crew members from the ship, and one was a passenger. All were fully vaccinated and most had zero symptoms, with a few who had very minor symptoms (runny nose, like allergies)— they wouldn’t have known if not for having been tested. NO ONE SICK…
Because, ALL VACCINATED. The vaccine is doing it’s job.
Anon. History was made today. You gave a positive and down right correct comment.
Strange things do happen
Crew ship members are young. Even without vaccine most would have no symptoms. fact. Most people in Cayman that had covid had little to no symptoms. It’s the nature of the beast.
None on the ship are dying but all those infected are capable of spreading the virus where ever they go on shore. We need everybody here to get vaccinated.
Why do you vaccinated have to make it about the vaccine? The OP did not say a word about anyone being vaxxed, they just indicated how unsafe cruise ships are at the moment because they are petri dishes for this damn virus. Regardless of whether they were vaxxed or not, they are still sick withe the virus. Meaning, their bodies are infected and they can still spread it. It is even worse if they didn’t know they were sick as they would be going about their merry way infecting everyone.
You seem to have missed the point that these ships are moving infected people from port to port. Even if the crew do not get sick their shore leave could kill people.
CNS! You are contributing to major setback in our mental health!
“Doomscrolling: Stopping the social media spiral”
The pandemic created new habits for many of us. One being a 50% jump in screen time. A lot of those hours has been devoted to ‘doomscrolling’. The habit involves non-stop online surfing through negative news and social media. But doing so, causes a major setback to our mental health. (SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. (IVANHOE NEWSWIRE)
CNS: Interesting! I had not heard that term before. Thank you! Yes, get off social media. It’s full of bunk and fluff and conspiracy theories. It’s bad for your health. Limit screen time. Read a book.
LOL Thumbs up, CNS!
Smart cards from Cvs are not available yet in the majority of the states so….where does that leave the opening at
Canada has a vaccination rate almost as high as ours and will probably pass ours in a short time. In an effort to limit the Delta variant Canada is moving to require all federal employees and all passengers on ships and planes to be vaccinated or have medical certificate of exemption. We should think about doing the same.
“Canada said it will soon require all federal public servants and many other workers to be vaccinated against coronavirus, Reuters reports.
The vaccine mandate, which will also include air, train and cruise ship travelers, comes just two days ahead of an expected election call by Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and could prove to be a wedge issue in the campaign. Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc said that the vaccine requirement for public servants will be in place by the end of October and that he expects state-owned corporations and other federally regulated employers to follow suit. He added that testing and other measures will be put in place for those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.”
Canada is light years ahead of the Cayman Islands on public health policy.
Dr. Death DeSantis in Florida could really learn something from Canada.
Canada’s Soviet-level Covid response: including looking to Europe and playing that forward a few weeks, sourcing ppe, testing capacity, lying to Canadians about vaccine delivery priority, corruption-plagued thefts, and see-saw policies have been a predictable demonstration of what to avoid. Ontario in particular has over 80% first doses administered specifically because of governmental policy mistrust and frontline knowledge their Premier is a lunatic ignoring science, and has left thousands dead, including “iron walled” old age homes (again, and again). We should be very happy we aren’t using their playbook. Pick another country and we’ll do them too…
You mixing that antivaxxer KoolAid with bourbon and methamphetamine? Bad mix bro.
Canada must be doing something correct because they have the highest vaccination rate in the world for first and second doses. As of today, 72% of Canadians are fully vaccinated.
Wish we were using the Canada playbook in the Cayman Islands. I would be much happier living here.
Soviet level COVID response? Certain you never lived in the Soviet Union.
At this point if you have unvaxxed family members than you may want to have a conversation about how this virus isn’t something to mess with. Get the jabs.
They can do as they see fit with their bodies
So you are pro abortion like me then?
We all have a social responsibility to each other as well…
No we do not actually.
No
Everyone I know who had Covid recovered and has natural antibodies. Both prior and post vaccine availability…people have to decide what is right for them. End of story, none of us can push someone to do what they do not want to do
The people you know are presumably a small circle that doesn’t include any of the 4 million plus dead people worldwide.
We push people not to get drunk and drive – same difference.
Many who have recovered from Covid show zero antibodies within weeks so dont for a second believe that is any guarantee against reinfection. Get the damn shot!
Preach…so many wanna be Hitlers on CNS. I had COVID (no vaccine), survived and I am totally fine. Living my life…the shock and horror.
I wonder who you infected and possibly killed? That’s cool for you though.
What you mean is that none of us should. They sure as hell can, and will. This is just the beginning. It is about to get really ugly.
I can only keep praying that most people who come here are trust worthy enough to quarantine as required without being monitored 24/7. In the US recently a parent who tested positive for coronavirus sent their kid to school, even though the kid had also tested positive for covid before going to school. Now almost 100 kids and teachers have been directly exposed because of one person’s selfishness and sense of entitlement.
CNS: Here’s the story for anyone interested.
Sadly many people thing that just because they have the vaccine they can do whatever they want and quarantine should not apply to them. Just one numpty can mess it up for the whole community, because they are ignorantly thinking they can’t get it or won’t transmit it. You would be surprised how many people think it’s impossible to get Covid after being vaccinated. We all need to be sensible
And whose fault is that? Who has been pushing the vaccine like its a cure. Isn’t not the government and news media?
CNS: If you think the vaccine has been promoted as a cure, you haven’t understood anything. The covid vaccine is not a cure, it’s a prevention. This is a devastating problem that doctors are facing where there is an outbreak – people asking for the vaccine as they are dying and having to tell them it’s too late. Here’s one article of many. Don’t let this happen to you.
Please consider getting the vaccine! If not for yourself, then for those who are unable to get it (i.e. children) and those who are immuno-compromised.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/viral-tiktok-video-anti-vaccine_n_6115040ee4b0f7bc26a28fe4
“I don’t understand how you don’t believe in science to prevent disease but all of sudden you’ll run to the hospital to take every experimental drug they’ll give you to save your life,” Arena added. “It makes no sense.”
When will the new BA schedule (announced 2 weeks ago by the government) be posted to Travel Cayman?
Or Cayman Airways. I booked Sunday and Wednesday flights for September after being reassured these were not ghost flights, and they now have all been cancelled. Now website just shows N/A all of September for incoming and outgoing flights., just like it did all summer. If you call, you just get put on a waitlist that never comes through.
2:52, You see how many deaths and new COVID cases occurred in Florida yesterday?
Time to wake up and smell the roses.
Bermuda has softly opened up. This has been their experience. As expected, quite a few cases. So far, hospitalizations are only a few.
My colleagues in Bermuda say they still have to wear masks in some places. Their main concern is avoiding remote learning again in fall for kids.
No easy solutions …I don’t think CIG will eliminate the quarantine requirement on Oct 9th. I’m now ok with that (I wasn’t before). It is clear that tourism here, there, and anywhere will not be back to normal this year.
(Disclosure: double vaxxed since March. Family physician in Cayman).
https://www.royalgazette.com/health/news/article/20210812/live-covid-19-press-conference-at-5-30pm-4/
LOL.
Tourism is BOOMING all over the Caribbean
Bermuda has been open for over 6 month for tourism.
Try to book a flight and accommodation on some of our competing islands and you will see just how hard it is.
Disclosure – World traveler throughout this pandemic!
As for quarantine….If you are vaccinated why should we be making people quarantine.
Because your dutteh rass can still catch the virus and spread it! Your viral load is the same as an unvaxxed person’s so of course you still have to quarantine. It’s ridiculous not to have to.
What BS you speak!
I’m immune because I took the vax! I’m going to walk around everywhere like a chicken!
Vaxxed and unvaxxed should have the same quarantine duration- whatever that may be. Both can still catch and transmit the virus. This whole is against them mentality is tiresome.
The thing you guys miss is the fact the vaccinated are far less likely to catch the disease in the first place. CDC Covid tracker showing up to 8x less likely to catch the disease in the first place (data varies week to week).
The REACT study is also reporting 3x less chance of fully vaccinated (source included) contracting Covid. The fact is this, when fewer people catch the virus and the pool of infected people is smaller, that in it itself reduces transmission. This is without even looking at infectivity of the vaccinated.
Source:
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/227713/coronavirus-infections-three-times-lower-double/
Bermuda announced yesterday that they are moving back to supervised hotel quarantine as the only secure monitoring system. Bermuda has had 33 dead and more than 2000 cases of community transmission. Info on their new mandatory supervised protocol is here:
https://www.gov.bm/articles/covid-19-update-premiers-remarks-12-august-2021
NOT TRUE!
Read your own link!
For unvaccinated it is the first days ( 4 days ) in a government hotel THEN if negative you get a tracking band and complete it at home like Cayman.
NOTE..No quarantine for fully vaccinated people!
Can you not read, or are you being deliberately disingenuous? The supervised vaccination a) only apples to unvaccinated people b) only applies for 4 days provided you get a clearance test. Rest of the quarantine at home. And that’s for the unvaccinated.
Bermuda has the advantage that their air gateway is basically NYC and Philadelphia for the U.S. Vaccination rates are much higher in those areas.
Unfortunately, our gateway is Florida, where 23% of all new COVID cases occurred in America last week and the majority of new COVID cases occurred last week.
This is quite true. Making our gateway NY where more people are vaccinated and better educated would make sense.
Gonna get myself ready for the next lockdown. Rich, entitled travelers are not going to be told to stay indoors.
Except the only one I heard about was about a person who just came from Jamaica used her boyfriends apartment to quarantine and he kept sneaking in through the window to sleep with her every single night. And she’s a domestic helper so it’s not just the rich.
Why wouldn’t he use the door?
Because his wife might hear them
Because the “he” wasn’t the boyfriend.
Because it was a condo and neighbors were around….
Husband was in front room on couch …
Less intrigue.
11:24 same here it is inevitable… it is so stupid that they are doing away with monitoring when you have to quarantine. Regardless of the time duration. Lockdown 2.0 here we come.
The motioning costs 3000 bucks per person for 14 days of taxpayers money, and most taxes are paid by vaccinated expats in cayman
How so? They can have a gps log and print it out. Even better just stick the travellers in sunshine suites for 14 days and keep those iron fences
Seriously what rich travelers can even get here? I guess the ones rich enough for a private jet can get here but I don’t see a bunch of private planes lined up to land at GCM.
We are not going back into lockdown because CIG is going to keep the border closed until sometime next year. That has been their plan all along. They have no plan for how to handle community spread of Covid and the delta variant has everyone in a total panic.
It is crazy to me that people are still terrified that the border is going to open. We are never reaching 80%, that is crystal clear and PACT has made it clear they will not budge on that number. Quarantine is here to stay, they will never allow the US CDC card as verifiable proof of vaccination thus they prevent most US citizens from qualifying for a 5-day quarantine.
I don’t like the plan, I think it is time for us to be able to go and come from this place as we choose but the fact remains nothing is going to change this year. PACT has seen to that already. So calm down and stop shaking in your boots.
Why not leave and come back when all of us who are happy with the current situation are comfortable to start opening…. I can imagine a phrase about having your cake and eating it too coming into play…. Please…. Go…. Stay until you can live within the parameters we all support. Bye!!
We all ???? Doubt it
If the border isn’t open why should the US or UK be so accepting? It’s like saying one vaccination is better than the other. One group carries covid, but the other doesn’t. Doesn’t make sense. The risk is there both ways.
Just wondering.. Why is it that if someone/group is privately quarantining that a simple security measure, by way of a SIGNAGE etc, on the property or Door indicating that person is on “Arrival Mandatory Quarantine Period” is not being done to protect all of US!
Speaking from experience most friends and family already know you are in quarantine and won’t visit, you occasionally get the church lot around, but you tell them through the door to go away, and deliveries, I leave a table outside and tape a note to the door to say ‘leave outside – in quarantine’. You really don’t need anymore hoops, hurdles and oversight.
And if a person in Quarantine becomes positive and lets say one of the poor persons that was unaware of that status/person being in quarantine and contracts Covid from touching something that person touched etc.. Then is that LITTLE ‘extra’ safe guard by government demanding signage be put up, which could have avoided exposure a “hoops, hurdles and oversight”?? Thank God, You are one of the persons that had a conscience and left a note! Speaking from experience on the other side!
It’s fine. Calm down.
It’s not fine, that’s how innocent people can catch the virus. What is wrong with you?
3:08 pm. It’s Fine? So what are you saying it’s impossible to catch Covid by touching contaminated surfaces eg a door, gate? Are you saying that all the people dying are faking it? Are you suggesting that it’s all fine and there is not a pandemic ravaging our planet? You must be one of those self entitled persons. You are and all the persons that like your stupid comment are sick yes! In the head!
11:30 not impossible to catch from surfaces but since last year we’ve been informed that it is unlikely. Chill out!!!!
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/17/1017075240/delta-variant-is-spreading-fast-and-new-cases-are-rising-is-time-to-mask-up-agai
Scroll down to see this part copied and pasted directly from the article. We need to stop pandering to the idea that surface contamination is a huge way the virus is spread
“Do I need those bleach wipes again?
No extra surface cleaning is necessary. Even though it’s more transmissible, delta still transmits the same way the original SARS-CoV-2 virus does. “This type of virus, which is an RNA virus that is enveloped, tends to transmit [through] respiratory transmission,” Chu says.
That’s backed up by “some extremely detailed contact tracing” done in the recent preprint from China, says Rasmussen. The researchers “determined that these cases were transmitted primarily through what they called indirect contact, which is most likely inhalation of infectious aerosols [while] breathing shared air, or through direct physical contact,” she says.
That means the primary way the virus spreads remains being indoors with someone who is infected and breathing in their droplets or aerosols. With delta, the difference is that the infected person will make many more copies of the virus, faster, which makes it easier to spread
That’s the one time I let the church people in to be honest.
You are a vile human being
Nobody told them to trespass on my property.
They should do exactly the same thing for the unvaccinated. It will make it simpler in the long run for those of us already protected.
As it should be.
The UK’s Statistics office published survey results this week with respect to vaccine hesitancy. We should do the same type of analysis here to better understand the problem.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandwellbeing/bulletins/coronavirusandvaccinehesitancygreatbritain/9august2021
Good – that is common sense.
In the news it seems that common sense may be spreading –
“Indonesia’s capital reopened its retail malls this week, but solely for shoppers vaccinated against coronavirus…
“This is a positive measure for the shopping mall. So that visitors can be assured that everyone who enters the mall has been scanned and considered safe and healthy,” said Eka Dewanto, the general manager of Pondok Indah Mall in north Jakarta.
Well at least they can’t blame the unvaccinated when they get sick
recipe for disaster…
people can’t be trusted. and you can’t trust an incompetent civil service to monitor and track these people.
When will our vaccines be electronically verifiable?
They have a portal to register on, they just haven’t felt the need to tell anyone about it.
what is the address of the portal?
It’s a secret.
When you get the implant.
Trust when delta is about to sweep America. There are still people who think this the flu. You think they are going to do the right thing? The vaccine was approved for emergency use, also Israel is on their third booster shot and still some are dying. This is the wrong move
Now, if only CIG could choose a method for verifying US vaccines that is actually available! The SMART Health Card they have chosen as only acceptable method hasn’t even been rolled out yet! An official letter from pharmacy/state plus vaccine card should be an option.
Hi, thanks for informative articles. Can you also provide coverage of whether there will be an official passport or wrist bracelet etc provide to Cayman residents who are hoping to travel and at this point only have their paper version of their vaccination details?
This is so preventable. 😢
https://www.thedailybeast.com/coronavirus-kills-4-teachers-in-one-day-in-broward-county-school-district
Four Florida teachers working in the same school district died of COVID-19 within one day of each other this week. “Within a 24-hour span, we had an assistant teacher pass away, a teacher at her school pass away, an elementary teacher pass away, and another teacher at a high school,” Broward Teachers Union President Anna Fusco told CBS. Fusco said three of the teachers were unvaccinated and that the vaccination status of the fourth was unknown.
Why the dislikes? Honest question.
My 2 cents.
Thank you for sharing. Very very unusual, hard to believe story.
*CNS: It’s hard to believe because you don’t want to believe. Read this and weep: Broward leads nation in new COVID hospitalizations; Miami-Dade 3rd
“We realize very, very well that the data is absolute,” said Dr. O’Neil Pyke, chief medical officer at Jackson North Medical Center. “The folks who are actually vaccinated are being protected to the tune of 90+ percent. The folks who are unvaccinated continue to fill the hospitals.”
While over on the other side of Florida: Lee Health warns of alarming increases in COVID-19 patients, deaths – Delta variant more contagious, deadly and affecting younger patients
What is known:
– they worked in the same district.
-3 were not vaccinated
-age?
– how and where they were treated?
– how long they had it?
– exact cause of death?
Why no details were provided?
Secondly, if all the facts are correct, there are millions who did survive covid.. We are doomed if continue focusing on those who died, not those who survived.
Before you start name calling! I’ll remind you that when people die from vaccines, it seems that those millions who had no ill effects are brought into justification. Then why it is the opposite when it comes to getting ill from covid?
Thank you, CNS.
As of today, 620,000 people in the USA have died of Covid. You say “there are millions who did survive covid. We are doomed if continue focusing on those who died, not those who survived.”
I believe those who died would tell you the exact opposite. Please have some compassion for the MILLIONS who are grieving the loss of family and friends to this awful virus.
Get vaccinated, please, for all of us.
ughhhhhhhh everyone is a victim of something. give me life before social media pleazzzzeeeeeee!
Social media interaction is a choice. If you don’t like it, unplug. Me thinks you like the drama…..
What does this comment have to do with social media? Basic facts.
How does social media have anything to do with the facts above?
No and stop pushing your bullshit agenda on me. I will NOT take the vaccine, not now, not ever. Give it a rest.
Okay, lame Dr Suess.
More details that are not in the link you provided:
– The teachers did not contract the virus at school, according to Fusco. Some had family members who had contracted the virus and spread it to them.
– the names of schools or teachers is not provided
The story was repeated at least 150 times.
CNS: You’re getting desperate now. CNN: 4 Broward County, Florida, educators died within about 24 hours from Covid-19 complications
“The teachers’ deaths come just days before classes start in Broward County, among the country’s largest school districts, and as coronavirus cases surge in Florida and other states, driven by the Delta variant and low vaccination rates.”
So clearly, they did not contract it at school. What on earth is your point? Perhaps the names of the schools and the teachers were not provided to protect those schools and the teachers’ families from conspiracy theory nuts who refuse to believe the truth and harass people for telling it.
What was the question?
Preventable?
Wrong choice of word, unless of course you have a magic pill that prevents people getting Covid.
Immunized individuals can contract Covid. We know this. Deaths from Covid are extremely rare in vaccinated individuals. I don’t believe that it is a coincidence that these teachers who died were unvaccinated.
Being unvaccinated is preventable and it’s free! As people move freely around and live in a mental bubble, the incubation period for COVID will rip through the island in 10-14 days and it will be toooooo late to get vaccinated. This day will come. You might delay, but you can’t hide. Do your part and protect yourself and your neighbor. Change ME to WE and make it happen.
Phase Two Done. This allows the CIG to assess the local impacts and build capacity to manage increase in traveler volume anticipated with opening the borders in Phase 3.
Reached one mile stone, but somehow it just doesn’t seem to have celebratory feel. Wonder what the increase in traveler volume will be? Surely the stylish new wrist band will draw travelers in like flies to a dumpster.
Open the border without restrictions already.
Common sense – ‘Trust but verify’
If only such eagerness, drive and enthusiasm were directed toward implementing policies, plans or strategies to address the myriad problems Cayman is facing
Fake news, They made most people arriving on the BA flight wear the GPS tracking device depsite being securly vaccinated.
It is time to do away with this tyranny entirely.
If they open the borders for daily flights and keep 5 day quarantine in place, We will be fine.
Maybe just a muzzle would suffice for you.
Fake news…I arrived on BA on Wednesday and all I have is a blue plastic hospital type wrist band and issued with a phone so that travel time can call, as were all people that were double vaxed
Just curious why Travel Time is still issuing phones. Can’t they simply call people on their cell phones or the landline in the quarantine location?
PACT has money to burn and holes in their pockets.
Fake news. I arrived on the BA flight on Wednesday and I did not see you on it.
Not exactly.I was not issued a phone, just a wristband.