UK expected to clear booster shots for Cayman
(CNS): Following emergency approval by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines as booster shots, Governor Martyn Roper said he was hoping to get the green light very soon from the UK Government to start a booster programme here in Cayman so that the most vulnerable can be offered a third shot against the coronavirus. The need for an additional jab for the more vulnerable is fuelled by evidence that the vaccine’s effectiveness appears to decline over time and that the Delta variant is causing more breakthrough infections.
This means the elderly and those with serious underlying health conditions who were given the shots first are no longer as well protected.
“The UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccine and Immunisation recommended last week that those with weakened immune systems should be offered a third jab,” the governor said at Thursday’s press briefing.
The experts were due to consider all of the available scientific evidence to inform their decision on whether there should be a broader booster programme and if so, how widespread that should be. This will lead to the UK government revising its advice in the coming days, which will also inform what happens here.
“I’ve said before that we would be given sufficient vaccine for a matching booster programme, but that we may push to go even further, given our very low levels of community transmission and the immunity that infection brings,” Roper stated.
He also urged those who have not yet had a first shot to come forward. Cayman currently has around 3,000 vaccines left, which expire at the end of next month. The governor said the supplies from the UK will continue provided we use up our existing stocks.
“For those of you still choosing not to be vaccinated, I implore you now to rethink. For your well-being and for the sake of others that care about you,” he said.
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When will the stipend end? It is quite evident that those people receiving the stipend should have been re-skilled and retrained over the past months. Why are they relaxing on the taxpayers dollars when they know COVID is not going away soon. Find a job, stop depending on freeness, or get out there and earn the stipend working in the communities or cleaning the beaches. Learn to use your hands, not only to collect but produce.
There is no time to be lax with COVID. Reduce the population by deporting quarantine breachers. Is that too difficult to do?
If the vaccine had an unvaxx button alot of yall would tap out long time but that will neva happen lol so be respectful to others you have no idea what reasons people have to refuse a vaccine.
Cayman should pay the UK for the vaccines so that we don’t have to wait on their approval for us to start providing the elderly with the additional protection that they need.
Where can i get one? 🏃🏽♂️
Great news!!
Sadly the only boost the whack job anti-vaccine campaigners will get is listening to the likes of Super Mario and Krazy Kat on CIGTV
Super Mario.. More like Mighty Mouth.
Don’t forget Dennie, Renrick, Clinton and Velma…I hear they have now added Dr.Tomlinson to the anti-vax clan..expected better from him but think his ego is a little bloated that he is not consulted on the pandemic and his little run in with the government over importing is own the Chinese Vaccine from Barbados..Wonder how there Zoom call went? I would love to be a fly on the wall to hear all that foolishness they were telling people..
Every one of them should be helping rather than spreading disinformation. They are always making false claims and nothing to back it up but stupid uneducated talk. Mario is the best at it and he doesn’t even have high school education..
I will say this much if Dr. T and convince them to take the Chinese vaccine then the government should grant him the authority to vaccinate them..It is much better to have them vaccinated then for us to open up and we lose any of them. They are still Caymanians and part of us and no one wants to see harm come to them.
Thank you UK govt.
There have been enough signals from Panton and others that we are not freely opening up October 14th to vaxxed visitors. Maybe a handful of visitors will come this winter, willing to tolerate locked in a hotel room for 6.5 days before they can enjoy a vacation (would you, if you had alternatives??). The US carriers that applied to resume flights here in October will not if this is the plan (American has explicitly said this).
Im double vaxxed since March. If we are going to maintain a sterile, zero-COVID policy throughout the winter, I will hold off getting the booster until I travel or we open up.
Given that we are in hysterics over two cases, we are likely to defer any opening until next summer (when, newsflash, COVID will still exist).
We started with “bend the curve”, then close island until a vaccine comes, it came, most eligible adults came forward and got vaxxed, the majority months ago. And now, we are losing our nerve, and deferring to a future date, when “something” will be different.
Just go to wherever and stop the damn complaining. Panton has been listening to selfish voices like yours, which landed us in a totally unsterile environment. You happy now? The good thing is, this PACT will not be forever, and what their incompetence will not be forgotten. Please come quickly 2025.
PPM much..boy unna can tek losing…Alden and that bunch of losers are done. There is no way in hell they will ever be in power again..Might as well say Mac and the UDP will be Premier again..They both have too much bad history behind them.
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