Latest figures reflect slight increase in shots
(CNS): Even before the news of the return of coronavirus transmission in the community yesterday, the latest vaccination numbers show that the rate had already begun to increase this week. Before yesterday evening’s surge at the West Bay clinic, the latest figures from Public Health showed that 52,622 people, or 74% of estimated population of more that 71,000, have now had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and over 50,000, or 70%, have had both.
The average daily vaccination numbers are increasing and the overall vaccination rate in the Cayman Islands for adults is more than 75%. Speaking at the press conference on Thursday, Health Minister Sabrina Turner urged people to continue coming forward for the shots.
“COVID-19 vaccination is very effective in protecting people from developing serious illness from the COVID-19 virus, and I urge those who have not yet done so to come forward,” she said.
As she was speaking, queues of people seeking the vaccine were forming at the West Bay clinic following the news that two positive cases emerged yesterday, suggesting that COVID-19 is back in the community.
“The core element of our protection is, and will be for the foreseeable future, the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine by the majority of our eligible population,” Turner said at the press briefing. “We must remember that public health scourges of the past century have been successfully eradicated by vaccines… If you haven’t done so yet, please get vaccinated.”
While vaccines are not 100% effective preventing breakthrough infections, especially of the Delta variant, or stopping the spread, they massively reduce the likelihood of serious illness, hospitalisation and death, and reduce the time span in which people are contagious.
This means that the pressure on hospitals is dramatically reduced in well-vaccinated communities compared to those with a low uptake, as clearly demonstrated in the United States.
See the vaccine schedule on the HSA website here.
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6 million ways to die and everybody just focusing on one🙄
Vaccines that changed your life
1796 Smallpox
1885 Rabies
1890 Tetanus
1896 Typhoid Fever
1906 TB
1923 Diptheria
1926 Whooping Cough
1932 Yellow Fever
1937 Flu
1952 Polio
1963 Measles
1967 Mumps
1969 Rubella
1974 Chicken Pox
Come on cayman – let’s get to that 80 per cent so we can open up and get on with life
The human race is truly doomed when the economy means more than humanity.
No reason to remain closed. Get vaccinated and then follow the covid protocols like the rest of the world has been doing for the last year. You can open safely and be open for business. That is what the rest of the world is doing. Don’t get hung up on the number of cases. Covid for 99.5% of the vaccinated is just like a cold. It is those unvaccinated that tend to end up in the hospital with the serious risk of dying.
We are not the rest of the world. The rest of the world isn’t a tiny island with no taxes. We are open for business. Our business is providing a tax neutral platform for hedge funds and an increasingly shrinking number of other businesses. Government revenues have never been higher. 90% of people who live here don’t understand this but it’s reality. Tourism revenue is good for local business but it provides negligble benefit to the government.
When we open up and waste our time with contract tracing, forcing exposed people to quarantine, restricting and ultimately closing indoor dining at bars and restaurants you’ll see how much better off we are. All of the other caribbean islands have opened because they have no other choice. We are fortunate enough to have one.
Because you don’t survive because of the economy. Kum bay ya.
There was a line up outside camana bay clinic friday night.
Suddenly they are concerned.
Now they getting vaccinated, you still not happy.
CNS, does anyone know if the government is counting non-residents as numbers in their vaccination totals? I personally know at least a handful of snowbirds who got their vaccines here in the spring(who are no longer here) and I’m sure there are many others. Not to mention a couple hundred people from the film and TV crews. Are they counted in our totals?
Now people are getting vaccinated. Suddenly, it seems important?
You’d think w/ 723 cases and all the breaches that been going on you would have gotten the jab long time ago.
Better late. than never.
Now, let’s hit the 80% & open the border! No quarantine so to save the economy.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html
Health Minister Sabrina Turner’s impassioned pleas for everyone to get fully vaccinated rings SO very hollow when taken in light of what the Cayman Brac vax clinic schedule was on the very day when Panton and his minions informed us that 14 October was the day he planned a full opening of the border. One of those involved in the vax effort at Faith Hospital has been telling people that the next scheduled clinic for jabs on Cayman Brac was September 22 from 9AM to 11PM at the Civic Centre location. What the…?? Obviously this would not allow enough time to be effectively immunised by two jabs + antibody ramp-up time before the announced opening. We heard their emotional coaxing for ALL to come forward to get vaccinated. They should win a dramatic acting award for that performance! IF they were so SO very DEEPLY and sincerely concerned about getting ALL of the people of the Cayman Islands vaxed before the borders opened, they would be a helluva lot more credible if they offered people on Cayman Brac daily walk-in times as they do on Grand Cayman and not leave the people of Cayman Brac as a castaway afterthought. Panton and Sabrina and especially Julie owe the people of Cayman Brac an apology. But save it. It would probably just be more acting. Julie, Julie! How you disappoint us being part of the cast with these uncaring acting award worthy pretenders! The opening date may change by the time you read this. However, this does not get them off the hook as this was the situation as of when the 14 October C-Day was announced by Panton over a week ago.
Time between jabs is 21 days. Time between Sept 22 and Oct 14 22 days. So you can be double jabbed in time. But time between previous opportunities to get vaccinated in the Brac and October 14 – 6 months. So it’s the government’s fault it took you that long to decide to get vaccinated, not yours, oh no.
Is it possible to know what percentage of the eligible community is fully vaccinated?
Anyone know how many under 12’s are in the island?
If we stay closed we stay closed.
If we open…. Damn the torpedos and open!
Scared you all to r–s, nah true? Good!
Something needed to light a fire under their ass! A couple cases did the trick!