COVID-19 daily cases fall as 80% now vaxed
(CNS): The number of positive results fell sharply on Friday, when just 30 new cases of COVID-19, two of which were in travellers, were identified in a batch of 1,132 PCR tests conducted over the previous 24 hours, giving a positive test ratio of just 2.6%, the lowest in several months and an indication that the community transmission may have now passed its peak.
The country also finally reached the target of 80% of the estimated population having had at least two doses of the vaccine, just as the need for a third shot is now seen as the only way to avoid another surge in the face of the Omicron variant.
Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee also confirmed that, as at 8am Friday, there were 3,448 active cases, with 14 patients in hospital. There have been no new cases in the Sister Islands for a week and there are now just seven active cases there.
In the Weekly COVID-19 Trends Report, Chief Nursing Officer Dr Hazel Brown said the average number of daily cases during the week of 28 November to 4 December had fallen to 80, a decline of 28 on the previous week’s average.
During that week, 557 new cases of COVID-19 were reported, with those infected ranging from as young as 18 days old up to 91 years of age. The average age remained at 31, with the workforce still the most impacted sector of the community.
“Ten cases were under the age of one year old. 171 cases were under the age of 18 and eight over the age of 70; however, we have seen one neonate testing positive this week,” she said. “Most cases are still in the workforce.”
During the course of that week there were been four new admissions to hospital but eleven patients were discharged, Dr Brown said. The four new admissions were all directly related to the virus and not as a result of other health problems. They included the baby as well as a 93-year-oldmpatient.
While 34% of those infected with the virus across the community were fully vaccinated, only 5% of those admitted to hospital were vaccinated.
Dr Brown urged people to take precautions and remain safe, especially through the holidays. “We must continue to practice all measures to reduce transmission and protect our families and community during the festive season and beyond,” she said. “Wear a mask, wash your hands, practice physical distancing, get vaccinated if you are eligible and isolate if you are experiencing any symptoms.”
As of 8am on Friday 58,400 people (82% of the population) have had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The country had also reached the 80% target of fully vaccinated, as 56,536 have had at least two shots and 13,542 people (19%) have received a booster dose.
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Omicron spread is an example of perfect timing. We have a boatload of it arriving in 2 weeks. Watch how that superspreader event unfolds.
Is that still happening? Could ask this question if they ever have a press conference again.
The NFL reported 37 new cases today and the NBA cases are rising again. Covid is coming back with a vengeance and we are letting our guard down like fools
More like after the holidays when the locals return from their trip.
It is sounding like we might need the field hospital after all – Guardian
“Health Secretary Sajid Javid begins his statement by telling MPs that the current number of daily infections are around 200,000.
He says Omicron will become the dominant variant in London in the next 48 hours and represents 20% of cases in England.
Hospitalisations and deaths are expected to “dramatically increase” in the next few weeks and the NHS will return to its highest level of emergency preparedness, he adds. Health Secretary Sajid Javid begins his statement by telling MPs that the current number of daily infections are around 200,000.
He says Omicron will become the dominant variant in London in the next 48 hours and represents 20% of cases in England.
Hospitalisations and deaths are expected to “dramatically increase” in the next few weeks and the NHS will return to its highest level of emergency preparedness, he adds.”
Did you bother reading out of 200,000 daily cases (sounds like a lot), only 1 death. Omicron is the least dangerous variant, we should be celebrating instead the world is losing its collective mind again.
Add yet to your post and it will be accurate
True. Least dangerous variant yet. Future ones should be even less dangerous as this eventually evolves into the common cold
CDC said 80% of these new infections were double or triple vaccinated.
Good article today on why LFTs should not be relied on with Omicron spread –
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/13/can-you-trust-a-negative-lateral-flow-covid-test
Omicron is setting speed records –
“The UK’s Health Secretary Sajid Javid told parliament:
“No variant of COVID-19 has spread this fast.”
“While Omicron represents over 20 percent of cases in England, we’ve already seen it rise to over 44% in London and we expect it to become the dominant Covid-19 variant in the capital in the next 48 hours.”
UK is warning of the coming wave, the Unvaccinated dingbats still swinging their 666 mark of stupidity CON spiracy dribble here. Omincron will soon sober them up Keep chugging down that ivermectin big ole dummie your immune system will soon get those much need Free Radicals More caskets and body bags ordered .
It’s numpties like you thinking you are invincible that are a major part of the problem.
Can we now accept that air travel is the main cause of gkobal covid spread rather than cruise…
Um….. this is the dumbest thing I’ve read today. And I listened to an anti vaxxer tell me no one has died from covid for 20 minutes.
Amazing isn’t it – Shut the cruise industry down and they stop spreading disease and pollution. Who would have guessed.
Yes, this is true, but the business community here will deny this fact because they believe in risk to the people as a a cost of doing business.
And this 80% vax rate will do exactly what against Omicron? In most European countries based on current infections the vax is completely ineffective at stopping the new variant. And there is no real world evidence whatsoever that suggests it reduces disease severity either.
And Omicron is so infectious and vax and prior infection immune escaping that it’s predicted to completely replace Delta by end of December in several European countries.
USA caseloads are up 43% w/w. Deaths up 32%, nearing 800,000. We can all read that Omicron will supplant Delta as dominant strain in Europe in a matter of days, not the weeks that had been earlier messaged. Yet, PACT is moving around with its fingers in its ears, following a cavalier Reopen Cayman playbook from sometime last summer, relaxing restrictions even as other countries are ramping them back up in anticipation of Omicron caseload “tsunami”. When this is over, and the crimes against humanity trials kick into high gear, the questions posed by immunity-challenging courts will be along the lines of: shouldn’t our leadership have ought to have known better, based on all the available information?
There’s actual proof that a booster protects pretty much the same as a double dose against the initial strains.
Get vaccinated. Get the booster.
No there is not
It’s spreading rapidly in America and affecting millions including professional sports teams.
Great news. Let us all agree that we can no longer hide from this virus. The cost of draconian measures are not worth it. And a March 2020 approach is foolish. Time is neigh to move on. We have caused enormous harm to our children, and our economy with these fear mongering policies. Open up. No rests, no restrictions. Everyone is welcome. We cannot live in the past. We have tools to deal with this.
This is classic gaslighting sponsored by the greedy and selfish who value the dollar over the health and safety of others.
Get vaccinated not locked up.
Reports are that this variant and the inevitable coming ones are vaccine resistant. Vaccines alone will not protect the people from the rapidly spreading virus
Elite vaccinated professional athletes in the NFL and NBA are being infected with this new strain. Vaccines alone are akin to extinguishing the dump fires with a spray bottle
You must got money in the bank then. It’s not going anywhere get over it and live life stay healthy and exercise.
Explain why some of the most elite and healthy athletes in the world are infected in the NFL and NBA. I’ll wait.
Actual numbers are closer 85 percent of real population (census 2021) plus thousands of unvaccinated residents who contracted Covid and now have some level of temporary immunity. We should be in good shape for the next 5-6 months.
Gaslighting 101
Lol just discovered a new word?
Or until Omicron arrives – whichever comes first. My guess is that Omicron will be in full swing in about 3 weeks.
Omicron is putting vaccinated in hospital too
Positive cases have become relatively meaningless. Hospitalizations are what matter.
“Why Hospitalizations Are Now a Better Indicator of Covid’s Impact”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/opinion/why-hospitalizations-are-now-a-better-indicator-of-covids-impact.html?referringSource=articleShare
Meanwhile, Covid is spreading like wildfire across the globe, and it affects each person differently, but go on with the “let’s get back to normal” agenda
Sunshine pumping. The number of positives results fell sharply on Friday because people aren’t reporting positive test results because they don’t want to be quarantined for Christmas and New Year’s Day. Community transmission has not passed its peak at all. Holiday parties, and Covid positive people who are so selfish that they refuse to report positive results and are out and about in stores, restaurants and bars, and gathering for holiday parties. Anyone who actually believes that cases are falling because the pandemic is waning should write letters to Santa.
hospitalisations have dropped from 29 to 14, how does that factor into your logic Dr. Grinch?
Covid affects each person in a unique way. Cherry picking this data point is a diversion to make us think the pandemic is over here.
Exactly.
“There have been no new cases in the Sister Islands for a week and there are now just seven active cases there.” That would be a more accurate statement if the word ‘reported’ after the word ‘cases’.
A Positive covid test rather than “case” is more accurate
It is my impression that “cases” are a function of a positive test result, not just somebody saying there are “cases”.
Further to your point, where people are known to be sick but don’t step up for testing, then our stats are going to be inaccurate.
Some of us only appear concerned with deaths and hospitalisations. Some of those people repeat that metric nonstop due to their wish for us to ignore any impact upon the people.
I was a serious anti vaxxer I listen to many WhatsApp and YouTube videos. I took so much vitamin D.
But the hospitalisations and deaths of my fellow unvaccinated have woke me up. I am now partially vaccinated and will be fully vaccinated shortly.
I don’t want to ask for the vaccine just before I get hooked up to a ventilator.
Vitamin D is actually a good supplement for viruses of any type. Current recommendations include Vitamin D3, K2, quercetin and zinc. I take all 4 of these supplements along with getting vaccinated.
Does this mean you will get the polio, smallpox, BCG, etc? Because if you were an anti vaxxer you wouldn’t have had those either.
Hospitalizations is the only metric that matters. Still a very low rate relative to infections.
Hospitalisations of all those excluding voluntarily unvaccinated people, who do not have valid medical reasons for not getting jabbed, is what matters.
Bullshit. You have no idea how Covid affects anyone but yourself.
These numbers are not accurate. They result only from testing around positive informed cases and not probing the wider community.
If DOH would conduct outward test starting at Front Line employees at say Fosters, Hurleys, Gas Stations, etc you will see numbers spike. We have hundreds to thousands of unreported cases.
So just for clarification, the sky is still falling?
Just for clarification, people aren’t reporting positives or are falsifying LFT tests to avoid quarantine
Only 5 per cent of hospital admissions and 34 per cent of all cases island wide are vaccinated. Shows you how positive the vaccine is if you catch it.
Yup. If people don’t get that by now they never will. 95% of the hospitalizations could have been avoided.
Time to move on with life (as most people in Cayman actually are).
Thousands and thousands of people in Cayman already contracted COVID ( both officially and unofficially).
The other 29% are asymptomatic and are out spreading the virus, as intended. Vaccine working well.
or even before you catch it. Consider – 34% of all positive cases are vaccinated, but 80% of the population are vaccinated so a far higher base number. The relative infection rate in the unvaccinated is way higher than amongst the vaccinated. Approx in in 4 unvaccinated people reported as positive so far on these numbers, whereas unvaccinated are less than 1 in 100.
I’m taken my booster and happy to have done so. We opened on the 20th of November and the Covid cheerleaders said at the time we’d be overwhelmed in two to three weeks. One idiot even references a person at the Pines catching Covid the day we opened as if there was some correlation. Hopefully these Covid cheerleaders will wake up to their ignorance and keep quiet with their two to three week scaremongering. Stay safe Cayman.
How obtuse of you for not telling the truths that thousands here know. People aren’t reporting positives to avoid quarantine over the holidays. COVID is everywhere here, and if you care to look around the web, you will find stories of COVID spreading globally, especially in countries like America, where many tourists come from.
If people are sick they will be seeking medical attention.
That isn’t really happening.
Sick people are out and about in stores, restaurants, bars and workplaces because no one wants to be quarantined for the holidays or lose work time. The spread will never cease because of this.
So what. Explain again why its the tourists bringing it here – guess what, it isnt – we are doing a perfectly good job of spreading it ourselves.
Why are you trying to suggest that the 80% vaxx rate has something to do with the decline in cases?
Sunshine pumping. The truth is that people aren’t reporting positives because no one wants to be quarantined for Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Based on your logic, I guess people are avoiding going to the hospital when they have difficulty breathing. No you are right, the sunshine pumps differently at Christmas in Cayman.
See comment below from someone that blatantly states that they won’t report or take a test.
Until he can’t breathe! Then what?
No way in hell that am taking test that will cause me loose my job , and my freedom when I am triple vaccinated. FU Wayne and co. No sir. Not doing it. This virus is not a pants on fire threat. You need to get a grip with reality. This is not March 2020.
Hey, everyone that thinks people are accurately reporting test results and that Covid isn’t spreading
That is not a real reflection. It was 78 percent when it was in peak. So 2 percent cant make difference.it is natural to decline as peak cant be sustained too long. It was the case in 2020 in many countries even before vaccination.
Yes it is true the vax is protecting from severe illness.
Umm – because it does? Have you considered the proportion of vaccinated cases amongst those a0 reported as positive b) admitted to hospital? Just a pure coincidence in your book, eh?
Virus is running out of unvaccinated people to infect.
Omicron infecting vaccinated people in the US and UK, bobo. The vaccine isn’t a suit of armor