4.88% of Cayman population has COVID-19
(CNS): Probable cases of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 have reached 1,073, as the infection rate in the Cayman Islands shows no sign of slowing down. With another 432 new cases of COVID-19 recorded Thursday, there are currently 3,470 active cases of the virus, 33 of which are in the Sister Islands.
However, the number of hospital admissions remains stable at four patients, one of whom was recently admitted. Interim Chief Medical Officer Dr Autilia Newton reported on Friday that 29 of the new cases were in travellers and 403 from the community, and that these positive cases were picked up from 1,007 PCR tests conducted yesterday and from lateral flow tests.
The total number of cases recorded in the Cayman Islands since the start of the pandemic is now 10,618.
Meanwhile, 58,965 people have now had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 57,403 have had two shots. The booster numbers inched forward Friday and 17,784 people, or 25% of the total population, have had a third dose after more than 100 people came forward Thursday to get the additional shot.
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See look, nobody cares.
Is everyone ok?
Please do whatever you think is best for your life.
Though COVID-19 is a Respiratory Virus, mostly affecting the lungs & heart, once it enters the body it can wreack havoc on other organs that will exacerbate a patient’s comorbidities. Therefore, it can be assumed that COVID-19 played an integral role in their deaths since immune suppression is one of the leading causes of COVID-19 deaths of patients with underlying health issues. How the coroner would see fit to state the cause (I.e. COVID-19) or effect (I.e. hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, kidney failure, blood clot, pancreatic cancer, etc.) on a death certificate or medical record is entirely his professional representation of his findings.
Get fully vaccinated & boosted folks and there will be less for you to worry about. Oh, and follow the Public Health COVID-19 safety guidelines when traversing the outdoors/(socializing).
Guess what? If you die with COVID you’re still just as dead as you’d be if you died from COVID.
this should be the final public advice on covid/omicron:
get vaxxed or risk losing social freedoms and risk getting seriously ill.
if old/sick/at risk….protect yourself as much as possible.
if you test positive ..isolate at home until asympotmatic.
everything else returns to normal.
there is nothing more to be done or said.
the testing/tracing cycle of nonsense achieves nothing with this level of communitiy transmission of this mild cold virus.
Applause! Its madness that THOUSANDS of people are being locked up because they might have come into contact with someone who might have Omicron. You know, that mild version of COVID whereby you (generally) feel a little bit sick for a couple days and then better. Why are we accepting this????
Agree with you 100%. Do not worry soon all the banks, grocery stores etc will be shut down because family members have to quarantine. I’m quarantine because my spouse tested positive so here I am negative for a whole week and waiting on my kids to be positive so that we can continue quarantine for another 14 days. Really do not think this government thought this through! A family could literally be quarantine for a month with one member staying negative the whole time. Madness at its best. Omnicron is the least variant to cause death and those that have contracted the virus are mildly sick. My spouse had a fever for one day and a dry cough that lasted two days we are now at day 10 and nothing, back to good health. Maybe bring it down to five and only have those that test positive stay home. Life goes on and most of the island by now has had it.
So the community – you and I – have no responsibility to the old/sick/at risk to alter our practices to ameliorate their chance of getting infected while going about their daily lives, e.g., you and I wear a mask as well as them? This is why when you get to “everything else returns to normal” your viewpoint breaks down. For a lot of people, the old normal is no longer the normal they can live with. If we are to learn to live with COVID the rest of us need to learn to live with it responsibly … for them.
Alter our practices? Do you mean wear masks, which is hardly a major set back, or do you mean the bit where you have to be locked up in house arrest for 2 weeks, which is a little more disruptive?
All I have to say is CaymanKind is so garbage. We are such a sick pathetic country where we barter a few bucks for the lives of our sick. Honestly I could care less about those who are unvaxxed by choice. I personally would love to see half or all of them get it where it hits them hard. Not kill but sick so their eyes can be opened.
My concern is for the elderly who are vaxxed but worry about a breakthrough infections or those with diseases through no fault of their own.
Its $#%ing sickening to watch some of the words of our fellow Caymanians speak in this forum writing off our elderly as simple collateral damage so we can reopen.
CaymanKind yeah…sure.
wow… you even say its mild.. and then push for mandates…
why tf do i need a shot every month to protect myself from a cold?
Covid denier in the chat
By all means isolate at home but until you take a negative LFT. You can still be infectious when asymptomatic
This “mild cold virus” has resulted in 2,708 new coronavirus deaths in the U.S, highest since September of 2021.
Omicron severity in sub 20% vaccinated Jamaica. Compared to August peak in infections and deaths with Delta we are running right now 2x the cases and 20% the deaths or ~10% the delta mortality rate.
January 8 2022.
7-day average of daily coronavirus cases in the U.S. reaches 700,000, the highest since the pandemic began.
Hospitalizations typically lag 2 weeks after infection and there are many experts predicting the US has 1,000,000 per day average by the end of the month, if not sooner.
get a life.
what has this got to do with cayman?
vaccination rates are nowhere near comparable.
It’s important to track what happens in other parts of the world before it happens here. For example, Los Angeles County reports 45,584 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record.
17,104,990 people of which 69.1% are fully vaccinated
Today there stands 140,000 Americans hospitalized with COVID-19, highest since pandemic began.
Highly vaccinated Israel report January 10, 2022:
Israel COVID update: Surge continues, rapid rise in cases.
– New cases: 54,515
– Average: 21,812 (+6,388)
– In hospital: 620 (+79)
– In ICU: 74 (+7)
– New deaths: 2
– Average: 3 (-1)
Picking sense out of nonsense. Omicron is a wave that cannot be stopped. Already data shows it is less severe. So why are we locking up families for 14 days and hurting the economy further!!
Meanwhile, Cayman residents get the virus abroad, but can return home the minute they test negative on an LFT and move around freely testing on Day 2, 5 and 10 on LFTs. But if you test positive on home soil, you and your family have the misfortune of being isolated for 14 days?! Make this make sense!!
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/covid-pandemic-vaccine-omicron-1.6307272?fbclid=IwAR0NCtUP39XEohIpXSkWgCvWpdeGHUaiPu9c6TomGYMjSGFVGOeJVPjVEpM
U.S. reports 2,708 new coronavirus deaths, highest since September.
You are missing the logic here. The death rate has nothing to do with the current regulations which run contrary to each other and do not make sense when looked at together.
Once people are testing negative on LFT, let them end isolation the same way we allow people to travel here on LFTs. Continue with certifying LFTs if you must, though it is a bit pointless because omicron is just too transmissible and everyone will be exposed at some point. So let’s start relying on our high vaccination rate and build the antibodies omicron is giving us with this less severe strain. Plain and simple!
Herd immunity is a fantasy that relies on risk to those with preexisting conditions and those who won’t or cannot be vaccinated.
You know I really recall predicting right around the time Dr. Lee saying Covid seemed to be declining. I asked the question, “What could go wrong?”
1. US & UK entering Flu Season
2. Cayman entering Flu Season
3. Omicron variant
4. Cruise Ship
Thankfully PACT grew a brain on the Cruise Ships but it was only a pea brain.
So the first step should have been KILL the community transmission FIRST before opening up. They should have RALLIED with PPM to do this knowing full well EVERYONE wants to REOPEN.
The bleeped that up. So Covid (Delta strain) ran rampant in large part to stupid guidelines aimed at only God knows what. Want some examples? Happy to.
GT Hospital – Every patient in the hospital is in danger on a daily basis. Why? Patients are protected by a heat monitor!! You know what’s the issue with a precious heat monitor? Asymptomatic. 80% of Covid carriers are Asymptomatic. This means ZERO fever. These ASYMP people account for 59% of all transmissions. So tell me again how the temperature system is protecting patients.
6ft & 15mins caused the spread!! We let carriers back into society to spread the disease. The general guideline says that people who have not been within 6ft of a Covid positive for 15 mins are okay and are of basically no concern. There are two SERIOUS issues with this. Covid virus can be projected up to 16ft through the air in the form of small droplets which kills the whole 6ft section. Not only this but can remain in the air for hours. So the time line is weak at best. Next thing is. A well placed sneeze or cough can pass the virus in seconds. So there is that!!
FUN FACT!!! Did you know the whole concept of 6ft and 15mins was coined in the 1800’s!! So, we, an advanced society, are operating with 200 year old policies.
So what do we need to do?
Do what we should have done to begin with. Start mass testing and quarantines. Start with frontline workers.
Tighten our belts with inbound travelers IMMEDIATELY.
12:18, Omicron is the least mild strain yet. Why the hell do you think we should go back to crazy amounts of restrictions?!?
For the record, there is no such thing as “kill the community transmission”. Didn’t work when the whole world tried.
Learn to live with a virus that is NEVER going away. Get vaccinated (or don’t, your call!) but stop panicking and try living.
The hysteria is so unnecessary. Omicron will be a very mild issue for any responsible person that is vaccinated.
Living in fear releases toxic chemicals into your body and shortens your life though, so go out there and be positive, think good and celebrate life. No fear!
Stop with the dramatics, no one is living in fear, but being respectful of this is STILL necessary.
Lock everybody up for ever? Yeah makes sense!
This is absolute nonsense. Eradicating COVID is no longer a possible strategy. All it does is kick the can down the road. If you want to live in a locked down state where no one can travel in or out without a 14-day electronically tagged quarantine, then head on over to China where the government will gladly take away your civil liberties.
Folks, its not March 2020 anymore. Time to move on.
1.20pm “Kicking the can down the road” is built into the genes of every politician we have ever had.
January 10, 2022
U.S. reports more than 1.2 million new coronavirus cases, with some states yet to report, as weekend backlogs are released.
China reported the first 2 local cases caused by the Omicron variant and is being aggressively proactive in protecting the population.
What an asinine, uneducated, uninformed comment.
Omicron has done what we needed the virus to do, mutate to a less severe strain so we can build antibodies needed, along with being highly vaccinated, to finally win the war against Covid and return to normalcy. Yet, you are proposing more severe restrictions against an invisible enemy that can move stealthily around any blocks in front of it???
Make the regulations make sense, stop creating different rules for different variants nonsensically, and forget PCR testing for the masses all together – rely on LFTs to guide isolation times.
The western method of dealing with Covid is remarkably different than the eastern one. Capitalists have basically created the western one leading to massive numbers of infections and deaths, while the eastern one created and enforced by governments influenced by science has kept millions safe and healthy.
I have (suspect) OMICRON because HSA is too slow to verify OMICRON by a lab in 24 hours. Chills, cough, days 1-2, No symptoms day 3 and going on 6 days now. Double vaxxed. Not getting a 3rd. Do what’s best for you.
Immunity is key to elevating the vaccine’s positive benefits. We all should look at other ways to help support our natural defenses. This is not being messaged enough. I take code liver oil/ omega 3, walk around in the sunlight for an hour, and try to eat and sleep well.
Stay healthy Cayman
This sounds more like a personals ad.
Good luck getting that date.
Is that Morse’s Code Liver Oil? Or some other brand?
The US and UK take about 4-5 days to verify a variant on a sample. What does this person know or expect? Their ignorance is clear from the rest of their post.
Actually, most tests in the US don’t even look at variant. There’s no need. It doesn’t matter a lick what type it is.
Cayman’s stupid policy on requiring PCR’s to confirm already positive LFT results is a waste of time, money and test! Don’t even get me started on their 14-day lockdown for a strain that is ridiculously mild and short-lived.
PACT needs to “follow the science” like they’re always spouting off about. I follow the science and got vaccines plus booster. Unlike PACT, I also follow the science on appropriate prevention/treatment protocols.
So your argument is that we should focus on those lifestyle measures that you have adopted which didn’t stop you catching the disease, rather than the booster that might have?
The booster wouldn’t stop you from catching the virus! Why are people still confused on what the vaccine does for you? I have 3 shots, been diligent on wearing a mask, and only go to the grocery store, only socialize outside, but still caught possible omicron. I am on day 10 and still waiting to find out if it is. Technically if it isn’t I should get out today. But have to wait. I have had zero symptoms, but my whole family that is negative is locked in our home because of this. Yet schools send out message they will send out lft for students that have a covid case in home. How does this make sense. Even if they test negative in morning, things can change in 7 hours at school. How is this logical
sweet justice… you literally clamoured for the prisons you now find yourselves in.
LOL!
And the number of deaths from covid among the fully vaccinated population remains struck at zero.
Bert, who doesn’t care about the long lasting side effects from Covid as long as they spare him.
Bert, who doesn’t care about the long lasting side effects from Covid as long as they spare him.
And what percentage is being locked down? 10% 15% ? Very harsh to be locking down healthy people in the same house as a covid positive person. This probably increases the number of cases.
Probably double that.
Quick poll: What do you think of the current quarantine rules for confirmed and suspected Omicron cases?
Choose “like” if you like the current rules and/or think they should be more severe.
Choose “dislike” if you dislike the length or quarantine of negative household members and think they should be decreased.
Why are there harsher restrictions for omicron – the “less severe” variant???
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/covid-pandemic-vaccine-omicron-1.6307272?fbclid=IwAR0NCtUP39XEohIpXSkWgCvWpdeGHUaiPu9c6TomGYMjSGFVGOeJVPjVEpM
U.S. reports 2,708 new coronavirus deaths, highest since September.
I’m sure these were very mild deaths
COVID-19 deaths here on-island appear to be at a very low count. Since the ushering in of the New Year 2022, were there any additional hospitaluzations or deaths due to COVID-19 or comorbidities i.e. heart disease, blood clots, hypertension, etc. that may have been impacted by the virus? Note: Stats are important. Why? Because like most of world, this little small island nation (~70,000 population), comprising of three islands, is still grappling with a partial border lockdown due to multiple COVID-19 variants & potential illnesses directly or indirect related to the virus.
Stay safe Cayman Islands: Get vaccinated & boosted, wear your mask when in public, frequently sanitize your hands, 6-feet social distance when out, & safely socialize in small familiar groups (with fully vaccinated persons).
Better still. Get vaccinated and get on with life. Covid is an airborne virus passed by infected respiratory droplets, so sanitising hands whilst always important, will do nothing to stop the spread as there is no evidence it can be passed by touch.
It is known that 6’ distancing does little in an enclosed environment and face masks, unless professional grade medical respirator (KN95) and above, are pretty much useless.
People need to start reading the evidence from England, where talk is of moving away from restrictions and learning how to take personal responsibility for illness, as we do with many viruses and colds.
If proof were needed that lockdowns don’t work, look at both Scotland and Wales, where infections are on the rise despite restrictions.
We must learn to live with Covid, not be continually distracted to by it and panicked politicians.
January 7, 2022
U.S. COVID update: Record broken for 3rd day in a row, number in hospital near all-time high
– New cases: 899,441
– Average: 676,284 (+62,444)
– States reporting: 49/50
– In hospital: 131,046 (+4,880)
– In ICU: 22,116 (+409)
– New deaths: 2,708
U.S. reports 2,708 new coronavirus deaths, highest since September. (No worries. It’s just a case of the sniffles here in Cayman according to some)
Every second, 8 people in the U.S. are testing positive for COVID-19, according to the 7-day average.
Australia reports 116,024 new coronavirus cases, by far the biggest one-day increase on record.
India reports 141,986 new coronavirus cases, an increase of 523% from last week and the highest since May.
Good thing nothing that happens in other countries has no chance of happening here.
America is also the most unhealthy nation on the planet and also does not have Avery high vaccination rate.
Really. Have you looked at the rate of obesity here in Cayman? Look no further than the LA!
We are already 2x or 3x the worst cases per day per capita of any US state you want to look at, and Omicron isn’t necessarily our dominant strain yet. 6 feet is just too hard to understand.
For all those pushing to get on with it, this is a continuously mutating airborne pathogen. If we are to get on with it as you wish, why haven’t you also pushed for upgrades to building ventilation systems before doing so? As is being seen now, the mutation is infecting the vaccinated as well.
The air conditioning is a recirculating system. A building with airborne pathogens inside could result in a deluge of Covid no matter how safe one can be. Until this is addressed, maybe we should slow down the full on getting back to it movement.
Very misleading as some of the positive covid are travelers and you are counting them as a percentage of your population.
“Travelers” does not necessarily mean tourists. Our people travel too. Moreover, some of those travelers are returning residents, and people who are coming in to occupy their condos etc.
The stat is not at all misleading as it paints a picture of the percentage of positive results in the whole pool of persons in the Cayman Islands at the time.
Not all travelers are visitors.
Look at the positive side of that……VERY few are ill. Locking down healthy, non infected people to “protect” them is a travesty! Thousands have had Covid and several thousands are double/triple jabbed! Follow the science and let people live!
Even fewer are reporting their cases. The resistance is larger than you know.
Rightfully so.
No matter how you twist this in your mind, you are definitely no hero if you’re not reporting Covid cases and refusing to isolate.
There’s no shame in having Covid, it’s a highly contagious virus.
There is shame in having Covid, not telling the people you’ve been around and/or continuing to hang out with people while knowingly sick with a highly contagious and potentially deadly virus.
Nothing to do with shame, it’s about nonsensical policy and government overreach.
It’s to do with the length of time they lock you up here. Now 7 days in the U.K. with talk of reducing it to 5. We supposedly follow U.K. protocol & yet it’s 14 days for omicron here. SMH
It truly is the most selfish thing!
Resistance? Please tell us that there is not a loosely organized rebellion of people refusing to isolate when positive or not report positive cases? I
Some areas in China are offering bounties to catch COVID rule-breakers:
– Reporting someone who violates quarantine: 300 yuan ($47)
– Reporting someone who violates isolation: 500 yuan ($78)
– Reporting someone who later tests positive: 10,000 yuan ($1,570)
True we are managing somewhat at 5%. But if we get 20% or more of population positive with COVID at the same time in weeks ahead, the show stops running. The supply containers don’t move or get cleared, shelves don’t get stocked, and shit gets real. Including some more people that will sicken and die that didn’t need to. This is a time for adults, because the consequences of seeing the tsunami coming and not heading to higher ground are real. It’s not just about personal survival strategies via vaccinations anymore – there are bigger logistical issues with mass absenteeism, panic shelf-stripping, and interruptions to all kinds of services and care that our people normally need.
Prepare for the worst, and hope for the best. The data out of America is staggering
Stop testing = less ‘cases’ = less unnecessary isolation = less unnecessary absteneeism. Feel ill, stay home. Feel ok, crack on. Remember those days ?
Shit only gets real if you make asymptomatic people quarantine for 15 days. Otherwise life goes on for 99.8% of people. The crippling of society you warn against is largely avoidable.
The show stops running as you put it not because people are so ill they cant come to work, but because they are forced to isolate. Study in Canada shows hospitalization rates for Omicron way lower than Delta – 0.5% of cases. At those numbers, with your assumed 20% infection rate you have 70 people in hospital. Right now we have 3500 people forced out of the workforce.
https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/epi/covid-19-epi-enhanced-estimates-omicron-severity-study.pdf?sc_lang=en
Many of those 3500 can and are working from home, not all of course, but I bet a good majority.
January 8, 2022.
7-day average of daily coronavirus cases in the U.S. reaches 700,000, the highest since the pandemic began.
U.S. reports 2,708 new coronavirus deaths, highest since September.
The CDC reported a rise in diabetes among children who have had Covid.
Yeah, let’s throw caution to the wind and get on with it. What’s the worst that could happen?
(CNS): Probable cases of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 have reached 1,073, as the infection rate in the Cayman Islands shows no sign of slowing down. With another 432 new cases of COVID-19 recorded Thursday, there are currently 3,470 active cases of the virus, 33 of which are in the Sister Islands.
That is almost 50% test performed. Super scary return.
Not really scary as, apart from travelers trying to fly to USA, most people are using lateral flow tests and know they are positive when they go for PCR testing, as required by public health.
Number of Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 hits 130,000, just below all-time high for January 7, 2022, surpassing yesterday’s high of 125,000.
0.006% of the population is hospitalized as a result. Hardly news.
0.006% of the population hospitalized. Twice that dead. But nearly 5% of the population in isolation.
Several of the dead were not part of your population.
Which rather reinforces the point.
0.017% have does with Covid. The number who have died from Covid is closer to 0.001% and they were unvaccinated.
*died
2.6 million new coronavirus cases worldwide, the biggest one-day increase on record, according to WHO. 8,168 new deaths.
No worries. It’s just the sniffles. Carry on.
Everyone dies 100%
If a few die so brunch and wine-thirty comes back, that’s ok. It’s all about me, me, me.
Well it is my life! So if it’s my life why shouldn’t it be me me me? Feel free to ignore the life you were given. It’s not being selfish, it’s called respecting your existence and not living your life in fear. It’s not a dress rehearsal – I’ll live my life, you live yours. My life is all me me me and unashamedly so.
If you can’t see ALL the issues with your statement there’s no point to your life IMO
I was promised everlasting life. A book told me.
No! No one died before Covid that’s why it’s so scary! That’s why we have to hide and stop those pesky tourists! Immortality will return!
Those Bodden Town & East End Public/(Political) Figures have a number of funerals to attend and/or sympathy cards to hands out to families of the deceased. Though many are Senior Citizens with COVID-19 complexes, comorbidities, and underlying health conditions its been a very sad & humbling six weeks for their families & friends across the islands and abroad. RIP🙏
7.09pm Most of the deceased died from their comorbidities, Covid was present but not the cause of death.
People with comorbidities aren’t people who were too sick to live. It’s your dad who has to watch his blood pressure, your grandma who is healthy but survived cancer, your cousin who wears an insulin pump, your sister whose asthma is mostly under control.
It’s regular people. Our fellow humans that deserve to live.
Putting aside the vacuum of humanity it takes to believe that and to declare it aloud, the societal acceptance of a class who deserves death means that everyone in that society is in danger.
Though COVID-19 is a Respiratory Virus, mostly affecting the lungs & heart, once it enters the body it can wreack havoc on other organs that will exacerbate a patient’s comorbidities. Therefore, it can be assumed that COVID-19 played an integral role in their deaths since immune suppression is one of the leading causes of COVID-19 deaths of patients with underlying health issues. How the coroner would see fit to state the cause (I.e. COVID-19) or effect (I.e. hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, kidney failure, blood clot, pancreatic cancer, etc.) on a death certificate or medical record is entirely his professional representation of his findings.
If you die with COVID you’re still just as dead as you’d be if you died from COVID.
We should just ignore what is happening in other highly vaccinated countries. What could possibly go wrong?