Twelfth person with COVID-19 dies
(CNS): Public Health officials have confirmed that a patient who was hospitalised with COVID-19 died Thursday. No further details of the individual have been confirmed but CNS has learned the woman was unvaccinated and had been admitted to the hospital as a result of COVID-19 and not other health issues.
According to Thursday’s update from Interim Chief Medical Officer Dr Autilia Newton, another five people infected with the SARS-COV-2 virus remain in hospital. There were 68 new cases of the virus within the community, including five on the Sister Islands, from 421 PCR tests conducted over the previous 24 hours.
While just 44 cases of the Omicron variant have been confirmed in the Cayman Islands, there are now another 284 suspected cases.
The number of active cases as of midnight (12am) on Thursday, 30 December, was 3,695 including 15 now on Cayman Brac. Of those, 3,550 were in isolation as a result of the transmission, though the number of close contacts and travellers who are isolating has not been released. The total number of cases recorded since the start of the pandemic stood at 8,943.
Officials said they were unable to supply vaccination figures as a result of a technical problem.
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Once one discounts those those who put themselves at risk by choice, i.e. the unvaccinated and the obese, the death rate from Omicron is so low that there is no good reason to stop life restarting normally. We should not suffer to help those who chose not to help themselves.
You are a vile human being who is showing the perfect example of the selfishness and lack of empathy of the human race.
Judge much?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/covid-warning-as-new-variant-with-46-mutations-infects-12-in-southern-france/ar-AASnGhn?ocid=st
Understand there is a new strain bought back from Cuba and spread at a party in Savannah over the holiday break. There are over 50 persons with it.
HSA covering it up. Be careful. Protect yourself.
Banana Republic without providing proper information about health status of the hospitalized and dead. This only feeds both sides of (dis)belief about COVID-19. Disappointing handling by CI government and health authorities.
Leave if you don’t like this ‘banana republic’ and lane a vaccinate cayman to carry on then
Drink less
Just for a little perspective look up the yearly death rate for Cayman islands. I think many of you will be surprised.
Oh boy is this the old conspiracy theory at work again? Dr. Rodriguez Williams already told us publicly that the increased death rate in Cayman is a social media myth. He made the statement back in August and CNS reported it.
My point has nothing to do with Covid other than showing how many (5.89/1,000 or 350 deaths per year) that you have a much better chance of dying of everything else than dying of Covid. I could be wrong as I got my info from the web (so check yourself). I don’t think Covid changed the death rate much since it appears most that died with covid passed from something else. Cancer, diabetes, etc. kills much more but where are the government mandates to eat healthier or else? Is it because people are much more afraid of dying from Covid than anything else? Honest question. Looking for an answer.
Last time I checked obesity and cancer aren’t HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS INFECTIOUS DISEASES. When’s the last time someone died from obesity they caught from someone else? I’ll wait.
That actually means nothing.
What if there was a drop in say car deaths or cancer deaths??
I really get annoyed when people quotes stats that means absolutely nothing.
You would have thought with all the lockdowns in 2020 the birth rate would have gone up also but nope.
Just another useless stat quote. You are welcome!!!
It was denied in August? And what happened from August till December 31?
Link? Since you’ve “looked it up”?
Hire a personal assistant
rip.
as i said before:
no one who is generally healthy, under 70 and who is vaccinated will die from covid.
So those over 70, those under 70 with compromised immune systems and underlying health issues such as disability are considered disposable? We should just live with people becoming sick or dying? For what?
Everyone will die
True. It’s just a matter of when not if.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/covid-warning-as-new-variant-with-46-mutations-infects-12-in-southern-france/ar-AASnGhn?ocid=st
How more unvaccinated persons have to die before the antivaxxers wake up. Taking vit d doesn’t work folks.
Wake up or sleep permanently.
Personal choise aside, there are actually medical conditions that make getting “Vax’d” both inadvisable & potentially deadly. Don’t be so quick to judge.
Name one condition that makes the Pfizer vaccine deadly? Very rare you can’t take the jab. Also shake some pregnant women avoid it – they are some of lost at risk and
Pregnant women should be the first to get vaccinated.
There is one quite dire condition that makes the Pfizer jab very deadly indeed, 11:17, and that condition is called “Stupidity”. In the case of those suffering from the aforementioned condition, the vax is extremely deadly, but only in their own silly minds.
It is a cost benefit question. However, my personal physician informs me that they know of no one whose medical profile makes getting the vax out of the question. The cost/benefit/risk analysis must weight if getting the jabs will be more of a health threat than Covid.
Ask your physician about severe neuropathic pain in consequence of reaction to the vaccine, and ask them if they would advise a person who has already suffered an adverse and months long serious and debilitating reaction to the first dose, to have a second. Yes, 99.9% of people should get vaccinated, but should be able to give informed consent (with freely available accurate information).
It is true there are conditions but having rare conditions out there and someone here with that rare condition is quite different.
NOT TRUE!
🙇 thank you for understanding that calling someone an anti-vaxxer not knowing their situation and fear of taking the vaccine is very valid.
Life is full of choices.
You missed the boat buddy. Omicron has taken over and it loves to infect and sicken the vaccinated…
There are 200,000 cases of omicron a day in the Uk currently and so far it not killed any vaccinated healthy
People so your facts are blatant lies.
You may not have missed the boat, 8:48 but you must have fallen overboard: the vaxed who have breakthrough infections are getting far less ill.
Dr. Craig Spencer, a Manhattan ER doctor affiliated with Columbia University sums up what Omicron cases look like in his ER experience. In the past week or so, many more health care professionals are reporting the same observations.
Excerpted from Dr. Spencer’s Twitter feed:
“Every patient I’ve seen with Covid that’s had a 3rd ‘booster’ dose has had mild symptoms. By mild I mean mostly sore throat. Most patients I’ve seen that had 2 doses of Pfizer/Moderna still had mild symptoms. A little more miserable overall. But no shortness of breath. No difficulty breathing. Mostly fine.”
And then there are the unvaccinated, who by all data are being hospitalized at a rate 15x or more the vaccinated:
“And almost every single patient that I’ve taken care of that needed to be admitted for Covid has been unvaccinated. Every one with profound shortness of breath. Every one whose oxygen dropped when they walked. Every one needing oxygen to breath regularly.”
Spencer’s recommendations are straightforward — get vaccinated if you haven’t, and if you’re eligible, get a booster. “So no matter your political affiliation, or thoughts on masks, or where you live in this country, as an ER doctor you’d trust with your life if you rolled into my emergency room at 3am, I promise you that you’d rather face the oncoming Omicron wave vaccinated,” Spencer concluded.
Here in the Cayman Islands, the majority of hospitalisations are among the non-vaxed. Sadly, there is no vax for stupidity.
So, Why has the government stopped giving out the vaccinated with Covid data?
There’s only one obvious conclusion
There are a lot of possibilities, including the possibility that they are trying to discourage vaccinated people from thinking they can socially mingle with impunity, to simply losing the data – – it is CIG you are talking about.
When a) the overwhelming majority of the population is vaccinated and b)the vaccine is not 100% effective in preventing infection, it logically follows that a majority of infections will most likely be among vaccinated people. To equate that inevitable reality to some sort of “proof” that the vaccines do not work, is the kind of irrational thinking that might discourage the authorities from publishing the data.
Not because of what you think.
Its because it would show how out of control they have let the virus become. Its their political career they are fighting for. This is potentially so bad they may face a no confidence vote.
Because that defeats the narrative that vaccinations make it all good, when in fact they are not as effective against Omicron, Delta and the next variant that is developing in the East. A combination of the flu mixed with Covid.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/covid-warning-as-new-variant-with-46-mutations-infects-12-in-southern-france/ar-AASnGhn?ocid=st
probably because morons will use the vaccinated covid positive figures in their antivax agenda, when it is simple math. Now that 85 percent of the population is vaccinated, it would make sense that more vaccinated people than unvaccinated will contract covid. This was always going to be the case. However, the unvaccinated still make up a huge majority of deaths. That should tell the storty cleary.
Good post. Omicron is coming, doesn’t look as bad as we thought but it will surely kill many unvaccinated people who should be with their children and grand children this time next year. I just wish young people would realize that although their risk own risk of death is fairly low. If unvaccinated they simply pass it on to their parents and grandparents, who get very very ill. Its desperately sad and heartbreaking for people who work in ER and ICU who have to watch them die.
It’s the vaccinated in hospital
All 5 of them? What about the ones in the graveyard.
Please don’t kill me just because I can’t take a vaccine like you can. Is it your culture or education that makes you now a person I might need to make sleep permanently just so I can live? I would rather just get along or know who you are so I can stay far away from you.
Sorry buddy but covid is here to stay. Life has to go on and you can stay inside on your own forevermore or roll the dice. We are not giving up on life for a tiny tiny percentage.
The Spanish Flu lasted for years. This pandemic has too and the virus is mutating. Your idea of living with it means millions must die globally. Until governments get serious about total mitigation, it’s not going away. Countries in the east have shown what must be done, but it takes courage and concern for people over profits.
Why does “learning to live with covid” mean “people need to accept the deaths of loved ones and long covid” and not “businesses need to learn to live with the isolation period and improve their ventilation”?
You should isolate then. The world doesn’t stop for selfish like you
Get the vax or sthu.
Stop playing games with something serious
People are still Not taking this Virus serious peopke in shops not wearing masks properly and up close to others the other day in Kirk’s in the Brac, a man was wearing his mask hanging by one ear I ask him to put it on properly, he didnt pay me any mind, so I said stupid people do stupid things, then he says that’s true, what hapoened to common sense?
Very true. People are much better in other countries.
People are still taking their mask off to talk as if there is nothing wrong. They will not distance. Buildings have not upgraded their ventilation systems. Delta and Omicron are still spreading and a new mutation has been discovered in the East, but kids are going back to schools, offices are being filled, and we are being asked to “get back to it”.
There is no reason why public buildings should go back to full capacity, especially offices in which most of the work is done on a computer. Just because the calendar rolled from 2021 to 2022, doesn’t mean the risk is lessened. All this talk about how mild Omicron is takes no account into how it affects the individual. No one is alike.
Stupid people indeed do stupid things; however, the management shares a heavy burden of the blame. It is their responsibility to protect their customers and make sure their customers AND employees are following safe protocols. You should have reported the offender to the manager. Managing a store involves a lot more than ensuring the shelves are stocked. I hope Moses K reads this and has a talk with his manager as I too have seen laxity at almost all the Brac stores. Time for staff meetings shopkeepers!
Everything is someone else’s responsibility? Just stop going to the store you are complaining about, go elsewhere or get delivery and stay in your bubble at home. Telling others how to live by your standards (which are ever changing) is an impossible goal.
Hahaha, good luck.
I have to say I see it all over here also. I will call out a few.
CostULess with workers with mask under their nose.
Fosters Airport same and security doing nothing but spraying sanitizer.
Hurleys same. Under nose and no one cares.
My props go out to Camana Bay Fosters. I see security telling people to pull up their mask. A+++ For them
Narc.
We’ve found the town gossip
Little Cayman, same thing happening here.
The last know count for local COVID-19 was #8 (an elderly Bodden Town woman who passed away on Sat., 4th December, 2021).
Now, the public is learning of a 12th COVID-19 death, yesterday.
When did the 9th, 10th, & 11th COVID-19 deaths occur in the past 2 weeks 🤔? Were they ever reported in the media? There may be some gaps in the reported statistics as they relate to the local death toll.
CNS: Every death has been reported in the media.
You are the one not paying attention.
They have all been reported, you obvi don’t follow news very closely.
I try to, daily, or I would like to think I do.
I read where three (3) Senior East Enders have died – between 4th December & 31st December, 2021 – but I found no media reports where their deaths were attributed to COVID-19. Hence, the reason for my dismay when I recently learned, in the media, that there had been more than eight (8) COVID-19 deaths. With that said, there are understandably twelve (12) COVID-19 Deaths recorded, & subsequently reported via the media, to date.
~ Daily Reader of local news
They are all unvaccinated: so their fault
We are not ready. This is not safe.
It is not as if we are flooded with short stay tourists anyway.
On balance, Cayman has really been doing a great job. Despite all the usual infighting and backstabbing, the numbers have been good. Any death is unfortunate, but this could have been a lot worse. The low hospitalization rate is really just outstanding, and a tribute to the wisdom of the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of the population who chose to do the sensible thing.
12th person dies WITH covid, not from covid. If everyone in Cayman has had covid, which is whats happening with time, obviously some people who were already very old and unhealthy who were already going to die just happened to have covid when they died. There are 70,000 people in cayman, obviously some people will die and also have covid at same time.
FROM COVID…
NO KNOWN OTHER ILLNESSES.
5:53pm – the average age of death from Covid is older than the average life expectancy. Also, less than 7% of people that died with covid didn’t have other comorbidities, this means that more than 93% of “covid deaths” were actually people who were already obese, old, diabetes, heart disease etc
Death is death. You do understand this don’t you.
If you could live to 100 but you die at 81. Does this no longer count?
So by your theory if someone went around killing everyone 71 years and older they would not go to jail because they were going to die anyway???
And while we are at it I guess we can get rid of overweight people and anyone with a health issue since they will die anyway.
You do know there is a reason they ALREADY call it covid related right? It means covid aided death. The person had an illness and covid exploited it which lead to their death.
People you need to read and understand not be ignorant and just downright stupid with your assinine comments.
Good riddance, right? Cannon fodder for capitalism
Unfortunately when it comes to an illness and treatments it is not all black and white
If a person dies from covid at home, receiving no treatments whatsoever, it is one thing.
If a person dies from covid receiving treatments in a hospital settings, many things could go wrong.
Unfortunately individual’s pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenomics are still a science fictions in practical/clinical medicine, despite the fact that Pharmacogenomics was first recognized by Pythagoras around 510 BC, however it was not until the 1950s when some enzyme polymorphisms were discovered.
If one had 23andme genetic test, they at least can lookup specific genes, however not all analyzed by this test. There’s also a list of possible reaction to some medications based on individual’ genetics. Certain medications can cause severe adverse or paradoxical reactions, and that is good to know. The test also states which commonly used medications would have no therapeutic effect and which antibiotics one must avoid. At least my test provides such information.
The estimated rates from anesthesia-related deaths were 1.1 per million population per year [US]*
In severe acute respiratory failure treated with lung rest and extracorporeal life support, a predicted 50% mortality rate was associated with 5 days of preextracorporeal life support mechanical ventilation.**
More than 100,000 people a year die in American hospitals from adverse reactions to medication, making drug reactions one of the leading causes of death in this country***
*Epidemiology of Anesthesia-related Mortality in the United States, 1999–2005, Anesthesiology. 2009 Apr; 110(4): 759–765.
** Mortality is directly related to the duration of mechanical ventilation before the initiation of extracorporeal life support for severe respiratory failure , PMID: 8989172 DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199701000-00008
***NY Times, By Denise Grady, April 15, 1998
All I got from all of that verbal diarhea was blah blah blah.
Yeah yeah people die from all sorts of crap in hospitals. What does this have to do with the cost of tea in China??
All I got from that is you are good at copying and pasting.
Would have hated to be a teacher at your school. “But Johnny I simply asked why you painted the sky green instead of blue???”
Says who? Doesn’t say that in the article – just says she was admitted because of Covid and not another condition. No information one way or the other on her general health or any co morbidity.
Read the article dummy
Understand the article. bigger dummy.
The with, not from parrot has logged on. When is JFK Jr. coming back?
Why is the number in isolation lower than the number of active cases? Particularly if the number in isolation includes contacts, who are presumably not all active cases. Is the HSA letting positive cases roam the streets, or have they got their numbers in a tangle?
No matter the vaccination status, this is a tragedy. The normalization of death being pushed by capitalists as the cost of doing business is truly evil. No one knows what the long term effects of Covid are yet, either, but we are being led to believe it’s acceptable for economic prosperity. Don’t Look Up is non-fiction.
There are studies that Covid remains in the body months after infection.
I will post a recent study shortly.
Doctor?
https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/coronavirus-can-persist-for-months-after-traversing-entire-body-study-121122700057_1.html
An economic prosperity in which Caymanians are largely denied participation. Not safe. Not ready. Morally reprehensible.
I find it very hard to have any sympathy for people who are voluntarily unvaccinated.there is no acceptable or valid reason to not be boosted in cayman by now.
Booster or no booster, everyone can still catch and spread the virus in the same capacity. It doesn’t seem like anyone is asking for sympathy.
Please stop saying that if people only have 1 or 2 jabs that they are “Unvaccinated”. If the “vaccine” works as you constantly profess, than 1 jab should be considered “vaccinated”. All who have died have had at least 1 jab!
You are not fully vaccinated until you have 2 jabs with Pfizer.
Not just two jabs either. 2 jabs plus 14 days is what fully vaccinated actually means.
Doctor ?
and ignorant. Which is a lot of you. Have you read and understood the information on the J&J vaccine?( which is not available in the Cayman Islands)
What a stupid comment. The Pfizer vaccine is a two dose vaccine, unlike some others such as Johnson which is a one jab vaccine.
Fully vaccinated deaths from covid total remains at zero.
The world cannot stop to protect those that refuse to protect themselves.
And Pigs fly Bert. And Santa is real and the Easter Bunny
It’s time Public Health stopped treating Covid admission details as Top Secret. In this case it is obviously in the public interest to release the information that CNS ferreted out from private sources. We know most previous deaths were associated with the patients having comorbidities which were the primary cause of death, but were there any more like this one?.
Yes. 1 more with no known issues that I am aware of.
What about the rumored cases in Little Cayman?
Hearsay tells me we have 3 cases on the little Island?
Why can we not have stats for Cayman Brac and Little Cayman separate?
We are the Sister Islands, but why lump us together for Covid?
RIP lady.