Over 60 families released early from isolation
(CNS): Around 220 people from 62 different households were released from quarantine Saturday as the rapid testing pilot programme got underway at the John Gray High School Gymnasium. Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee confirmed that just one adult and one child tested positive and had to return to quarantine. All the rest of the children, teachers and parents involved in the lateral flow testing were able to go home with the test kits. The pilot is focused on families that had been in quarantine as a result of the school outbreaks but where no one in a household to date had the virus.
This involved students in certain classes at Clifton Hunter High School, Cayman Academy and First Baptist along with their households and teachers. Everyone was given a demonstration of how to do the tests and then assistance in conducting them by a Public Health official to prepare them for conducting these tests on themselves and assisting their family members.
All households were given tests to take home and must send the results to Public Health at quarantine@hsa.ky daily.
If anyone tests positive with the home tests, they will need to re-isolate and contact Public Health. Everyone is obligated under the Public Health Act to report all communicable diseases, including COVID-19. Each family will have their results viewed by a member of the Public Health team. Lessons and feedback from this weekend’s pilot will be incorporated into the national testing plan for education.
See a demo of how to do the test below:
People in isolation who need help can also call the Flu Hotline.
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NBA player Brandon Goodwin recently admitted that he suffered from blood clots after getting the COVID-19 vaccine in a health crisis that ended his season and compromised his career. Adding insult to injury, the Atlanta Hawks player said that the NBA told him not to talk about his ordeal.
Goodwin, who recently turned 26, said that shortly after getting the vaccine, he got sick and never fully recovered from it. He experienced constant back pain and was extremely tired in games. In his team’s back-to-back games in April against the Philadelphia 76ers, he said he felt like he couldn’t even run up and down the basketball court; when his back pain continued to get worse, he decided to see a doctor and found out that he had blood clots. This all occurred within the space of a month.
Speaking in a video he posted to Twitch, Goodwin made it clear that he felt that the vaccine was responsible for this scary condition.
CNS: I couldn’t find an article that said which vaccine he was given but blood clots have been reported as rare side effects of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. By the way, he just signed with the New York Knicks, so hopefully he is now OK.
My Dad took the Astra Zeneca vaccine and suffered stomach pain from the day after his second vaccine. Three weeks later rushed in to hospital with multiple blood clots and still suffering 5 months later. If it wasn’t for it being my Dad I would never have believed it.
CNS: Luckily, the vaccine we have is Pfizer. Australian Dept of Health – Does the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine cause blood clots?
“There has been a link established between the AstraZeneca vaccine and a very rare but serious side effect called thrombosis in combination with thrombocytopenia. There is a very low chance of this side effect, which may occur in around 4-6 people in every million after being vaccinated…
The experts at Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) actively monitor cases of this syndrome… They have noticed higher rates of this rare condition in people aged 50-59 years and recommend the Comirnaty (Pfizer) vaccine as the preferred vaccine for people under the age of 60…
For people aged 60 years or above, the benefits of vaccination, with any vaccine including AstraZeneca, clearly outweigh the risks of TTS.
When did we become a community that automatically assumed everyone is out to break the law, and lie and cheat so they don’t have to do something, I think you will find that the majority of people want to do the right thing, want to stay health and do not want to put their family members, work colleagues and community at risk. There are always a couple and I think you will find they are the same people who always disregard social norms and the lay of the land.
Sadly, its not contained to here. Its a global endemic of selfishness and greed
They keep saying “no one has gotten really ill from covid” So what happens when you catch covid multiple times a year?
Long Covid is a thing and no one in leadership wants to tell that truth
anon 340 does death count?
So these tests were a convenient and easy way to get all of the Caymanian families out of quarantine… knowing full well we are not even through the incubation period….
Interesting timing on this pilot project!
And also ……..Self reporting?
Meanwhile – round up the expats and inject them forcibly 😜
Sounds very fair, world class one might even say!
“Meanwhile – round up the expats and inject them forcibly ” dramatics. because you can go home. we cant, as we already are home.
suck it up.
Who is rounding up expats? Quite the drama queen aren’t you?
wish they would round up the expats that are like that one and send them home lmao
a lot of other sensible folk can replace those who feel irreplaceable.
I don’t really understand it appears to be the local population that are becoming infected and spreading covid and yet you are only insisting on protecting the expat population from catching it.
lmfao please be quiet because you can clearly see they are clearly talking about the antivax epaci expats with the false entitlement or those who deem themselves as irreplaceable and god-like saying we, the caymanians, “need them.
Those people can definitely be round-up and sent home so they can be entitled there.
9.36am FYI most families in Cayman are not Caymanian. They’re mostly from another country.
As far as I can tell there are no regulations enforcing these new lateral flow tests that people are supposed to do at home and then report the results. If that is true then anybody can lie to avoid a PCR test or isolation with no fear of punishment. A person who tests positive can just go out and infect people.
A person can simply put the swab stick into the solution without swabbing their nostrils, which will ensure a negative test every time.
Bingo
In the UK, children have been putting these in lemonade to get a positive test and getting their school classes shut down.
Still, the PCR tests themselves are known to be nonsense with over 60% of all positives in UK shown to be false and not infectious.
You’d almost think there wasn’t actually a pandemic
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Not sure who made up your figures but after searching on line the % is between 0.8% and 4% , i should check your facts before quoting dangerous False information
As I understand it, unless the LFTs are being administered by medical professionals, they are to be used as personal tests, without any reporting necessary.
That is, you, me and everyone might acquire them just to test ourselves for our own knowledge. Those of us with any regard for the residents of Cayman would report positive results.
Put another way, I doubt that those who would try to get around the SARS-Cov-2 protocols would purchase the tests in the first place.
World Class. I am so blissed to live in Cayman
Blissfully ignorant.
Before we open up why don’t we give out covid kits like they do in India?
For the love of money
PACT printing money must be.
These tests help in getting quick results.ok if health officials do testing.home test result should be automatically transmitted to public health. If not no use except personal safety feeling.
We are in a state now test close contacts of positives and isolate positives. No need of quarantine as we cant stop transmission.
USA is opening in Nov for vaxed tourists without quarantine.Follow advanced nations like USA,Canada and UK we will not go wrong . If they cant manage we will not.
Let us learn to live with it and open up.
USA was never closed to met people….Just saying.
And if the USA had shut down like Cayman guess what….ALL of us in Cayman would have starved!
Huh?
Little do you really know about the US food supply.
You think it’s bad in the UK these days – trying shutting the US borders, many US citizens will perish out of hunger.
Good deal. I hope these tests become readily available to anyone who wants them.
If any of them test positive and asymptomatic they may not report althoug compulsory.
It helps for fear control and may have false positives to get any benefits.
These tests r useful for entry screening of tourists.
False positives are extremely rare for these tests. False negatives are about 20% of the time.
False positives are extremely rare as the solution shows a positive only when a specific protein that is only found with COVID is detected.
They are relying on self reporting? Seriously?
Much like expecting drivers to obey the traffic laws and drive safely
See how easy it is. That’s just one step on how to co-exist in a world with covid.
Yeah, so these tests can be easily falsified and reliance on self reporting is akin to proper use of roundabouts and speed limits here
Can these tests be used on kids traveling to sister islands who cannot be vaccinated?