CMO worried about low booster numbers
(CNS): Dr Autilia Newton, the interim chief medical officer, has raised concerns that too few people in the Cayman Islands have received a booster shot against COVID-19. In a virtual meeting with the media, she said people need to get a third shot to protect themselves from the very high rate of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in our community. While the vaccine is not preventing people from catching or spreading the virus, the shots are exceedingly good at preventing severe illness and death.
But although 81% of people in Cayman have had two doses of the vaccine, only 28% have had a booster. Given the well-documented decline in protection after time, the low number of people who have had three doses is leaving those who were vaccinated more than several months ago vulnerable. Because of the sheer number of people being infected daily, that could convert to much higher hospitalisations than we have seen to date.
The vaccines have proven to be effective in Cayman, given the current spike. As of Saturday, there have been almost 14,000 cases of the virus since it arrived in March 2020, and except for around 725 they have all been since September 2021. However, there have been just 174 patients hospitalised and 15 deaths. To date, just one person in the Cayman Islands has been confirmed to have died without any comorbidity and as a direct result of COVID-19 disease.
But there are concerns that unless there is a greater take-up of the booster, this protection from severe illness will decline.
Speaking to the media Tuesday, Dr Newton said a booster campaign is needed to get the level of the third shot much higher. She said it is the decline in protection from the vaccine that has fuelled the infection levels because people don’t realise that two shots may no longer be enough to protect them.
The CMO said there were no plans to introduce a fourth dose into the mix, as there is not enough evidence yet to see when the immunity will wane after the booster. There is also the risk of a new variant that does not respond to any existing vaccines. Dr Newton said things were pointing towards the need to be vaccinated annually, as is the case with flu, but it was still too early to give definitive answers about long-term vaccine protection.
But in the short term, she said the booster was the best way for Cayman to get itself out of this current wave of infections.
Dr Newton also said that Public Health was waiting eagerly to get the go-ahead to vaccinate children, which alongside boosters will bring “the defences against circulation of the virus on a more solid basis”.
The Health Services Authority has confirmed it will begin vaccinating vulnerable children aged between 5 and 11 years old at the hospital clinic on Saturday morning by appointment only. HSA Chief Nursing Officer Dr Hazel Brown said the administration of the childhood vaccines is done by specially trained Public Health nurses with extensive experience in the immunization of children. “Based on the demand for the vaccine, additional clinics will be added as needed,” she said.
The rollout for all kids is dependent on getting more of the small doses required for children and Cayman is dependent on the UK for that. We also need to wait for the medical committee in Britain to clear the way for the vaccines to be rolled out to all children, as is the case in the United States, since the UK’s medical experts are currently directing that only vulnerable children should be vaccinated.
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So stop the last name system. You are making it too hard to schedule a booster. Maybe give the correct last name folks priority, but take anyone on a space available basis. What is the sense of having your staff sit there waiting for someone with the correct last name show up? Makes no sense with the low demand.
Judging by the Likes/Dislikes ratios on subjects like this, CNS is (through no fault of its own) becoming the happy meeting point of the anti vax cretins.
You’ll see what I mean when they pile in on this comment.
Perhaps you are the cretin?
You set yourself up for that by projecting your true identity against the very people you wish to disparage.
Many people that have been demonized as “anti-vaxx” are nothing of the sort.
I remember a horrible bike accident that I had and in the hospital, I requested a tetanus booster.
I am not anti-vaxx. I am pro-informed consent and I do not consent to the COVID jab.
Do I make myself clear?
Not really.
If you don’t consent to the Covid jab, you’re anti-vax. It’s pretty simple, even for cretins.
“Anti-vaxx” is a blanket statement. We all consider you anti-commonsense.
“We all”?
The cretins, you mean?
Oh my gosh, you really need to go back to school and learn the difference.
I don’t think schools teach that – maybe because it’s such an obvious point that they don’t feel it needs teaching.
Or perhaps by “school” you meant the University of Facebook?
I’m anti experimental trial drugs
you are also a fool
I hope you get cancer
Even triple vaxed against Wuhan 1.0 with Pfizer Cominaty, as most of us are, we are overconfident in the distance and advantage that confers against Omicron and whatever develops next. Science has shown that there is no achievable lasting herd immunity, and 40% of positives will be asymptomatic and feel fine. We need to understand and tackle the drivers of community spread now with LFTing, before a worse version emerges. We are on the frontlines with everywhere else now. With our collective apathy, a new variant might even breakthrough here in the Cayman Islands. They don’t have to start in South Africa or Brazil. Imagine the headline risk of that.
I just can’t take the CMO seriously. It’s like going to my grandma asking her about the internet.
Just give us the data and I’ll verify it myself. I suspect she’s just repeating whatever she’s told to say for the wage.
Considering the numerous side effects people have experienced, boosters? I pass!
Oh please stop already
Stop using the word “already” like a child. Please? We have one language, don’t butcher it.
What are these side effects?
I’ve only heard of a few people feeling under the weather for a day, similar to what has always been possible with the flu vaccine.
Have any serious side effects actually been attributable to these shots? And I mean confirmed by a doctor not via anecdotes.
Wait until the cancer numbers are released. I suspect there will be a higher number.
What’s that suspicion based on? 🙄
I think we know the answer to that. The same hard facts that all anti vaxxers rely on.
Considering the side effects many of us have experienced, boosters? I don’t think so!
Define “many”
Me thinks you doth protest too much.
Anaphylaxis
Bell’s Palsy
Transverse myelitis
Thrombo-embolic (blood clotting) events with concurrent low platelets
Immune thrombocytopenia
Capillary Leak Syndrome
Menstrual disorders (period problems) and unexpected vaginal bleeding
Myocarditis and pericarditis (Inflammation of the heart)
Delayed hypersensitivity reactions
Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Swelling of the vaccinated limb
Facial swelling in those with a history of facial dermal fillers
Death
That is such a load of crap. The way trials work and how they classify side effects is if you are in a trial and you have any symptoms you report them whether it has to do with the medicine you took or not. That’s why shitting your brains out is on every prescription medicine pamphlet as a side effect.
What a load of nonsense. No one has experienced these side effects from the Pfizer vaccine
It’s about time governments start considering prosecutions for “misinformation” (lies) like this.
I respect those who don’t want to take the vaccine themselves, but not those who tell others not to. If X were to die from Covid because he/she had been persuaded by Y not to take the vaccine, Y should be prosecuted for manslaughter. After all, those who encourage others to commit suicide commit a crime. It’s hard to see the difference in principle.
So …. you want people with a different opinion to yours to be charged for manslaughter for mentioning that opinion? Be careful ….. if the narrative changes one day, that could mean you
You misunderstand what I said. It’s hard to put it simpler, but let me try for you.
If someone recklessly persuades someone else to do or not do something that leads to their death, they are responsible for that death and should be prosecuted. Whether or not I agree with their words is irrelevant.
I’ll let HM Government know they are full of crap and nonsense, according to a couple of morons on CNS.
PS. Scroll down. I copied the list from their website.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting
Yup, sounds like someone is inventing a narrative to suit their own actions.
“Many” is definitely an overstatement.
Many are going to the hospital with complications after the vax and doctors are saying it’s in no way caused by the vax without looking into it. They just send them home. How do you come to a conclusion without running tests?
No they aren’t you are reading way too much bullshit.
Marketing people need to step in here and call it something else other than booster or more of the same stuff. It should be called the invincibility shot or superman shot!
Omicron is the booster. And, it’s the vaccination for the antivaxxers! Exposure to the whole virus is better than an mRNA booster shot that exposes you to just one spike protein– FACT.
Not fact. But again can’t talk sense into those who are willfully ignorant.
But they’ve done their own research and have documented proof from the internet!
The Joe Rogan cult
Thanks for responding to this bozo. I’ve given up they really aren’t worth the time but yet it is so hard to let stupidity spread but I’m just so tired.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting-immunity-found-after-recovery-covid-19
This proves natural immunity exists. As more time passes we will have more data. get Vaccinated if you want and think it’s the best option for you, but you guys are spreading misinformation when you say natural immunity does not exist.
I’ve asked this questions many times. How do you end a pandemic if you can’t eliminate the spread? Think about it hard. I’ll wait for your answer.
I’ll play. Herd immunity cannot exist without immunity being conferred to the majority of a population. Immunity is either acquired by a vaccine which *prevents the recipient from being able to contract the virus*, or natural immunity conferred by recovering from the virus.
I seriously doubt we — any of us — can present a cumulative front that is in any way construed to be herd immunity.
Had I known earlier in life that simply emphasizing the word “FACT” after my false statement would make it irrefutable I would have performed so much better on my high school debate team.
Alas, what could have been…
Why has the PCR testing response time changed for the worse?
Because the number of staff dealing with it has shrunk because of Covid absences, and the demand for tests have skyrocketed – look at the briefing. Both are impacted by government policy as well as the sike in underlying infection. First to quarantine positives for extended periods, which impacts HSA staff diagnosed positive and triggers both entry and exit PCR tests, second to inflict day 2, 5 and 10 tests on all arrivals – tripling the LFT testing burden initially and spinning off addition entry and exit PCR tests. Fewer staff and multiples of the number of tests to be processed – now wonder turnaround time has gone out the window. You wonder why other countries don’t require PCR tests for exit from quarantine but replace that with either prescribed time periods and /or LFT tests – because they have recognised the logistical challenges of imposing the clinically more accurate PCR regime.
* demand has skyrocketed due to their pathetic rules
Because they’re testing way too many people when they should only be testing a certain amount of people to get an idea of the variants. As long as you report a positive LFT in quarantine there should be no reason that everyone needs to confirm that. Start with school-age children. They should not have to confirm it, they should just report it and stay home and get an exit test. Or even open it up to certified LFT exit. If it’s good enough for travel it’s good enough for exit.
Incompetence.
And The Cayman Covid Circus Continues. Greetings from Free Florida!!!
Oh yes Paul, Free Florida where today in Florida we had the highest seven day death rate since last October.
Freedom to die.
Can’t help the chronically stupid in Floriduh where there are many dumb DeSantis supporters like yourself.
I was in Free Florida last week, I went in to a major store in Sawgrass. After a few minutes, looking at all the people in there I became very uncomfortable.
I realised looking at all the staff and customers that I was the only one….
Not wearing a mask.
Florida may be free, but they are wearing masks and sanitising as much as anywhere!
You’re in a cult
Yes, and then we need the 4th shot please. I’ve had the first 3 shots but got very sick from an anti-vaxxer at my office who refused to wear a mask in the lunch room. Please bring the 4th shot now for more protection.
Doubtful.
Sarcasm?
I’ve taken my two shots and was told that’s good enough, now I’m being told to take a third one and only after that I should be fine, smh, what are they going to tell us next? That the fourth shot should be the final solution and that it comes from a caliber. What a state of confusion the whole lot is in.
The confusion seems to rest with you. Maybe it’s time to listen to people that didn’t fail biology and/or can read the volumes of data published since last summer.
please tell me this was just sarcasm?
Give your head a shake !! You want a 4th one, after the first three didn’t give you any protection. And then you have the audacity, to try and blame your work colleague.
Well, one guy, in India I think, got 8 (11?) or jabs 🤦♀️ before he got caught. Claims “my body aches and pain disappeared. I used to have knee pain and walked with a stick. Now I don’t. I feel fine.’
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-59905339
So go ahead, get your 4th one, may be it will cure you of all ailments. Science need guinea pigs.
If you want persons to get boosters in significant numbers then make them available at multiple clinics and health centres.
Both public and private, through out the days and evenings.
Of course, in more organised places these are done by appointment to make it work efficiently.
Certainly would reduce unnecessary exposure to the virus created by the long lines, cramped interiors and all around chaos experienced now at vaccine lines.
Is it a stretch too far to ask for better organisation?
Hey, I’ll take another booster if it helps the numbers!
The virus is so terminal that the ONLY medical advice given for a positive test result is to simply ‘stay home for 2 weeks’ till it passes.
The pandemic so unprecedented you need to be reminded of it daily with charts & numbers of PREDICTIONS & FAKED EXAGGERATED numbers.
The vaccine that is PROVEN & widely admitted that it does NOT stop everyone getting covid or transmitting it with fast waning efficacy.
Now they want 5yr old KIDS jabbed. Then boosted.
Here’s my stance as a business owner. Get vaccinated, get boosted or get lost. If you don’t understand the science behind it, you’re not smart enough to work for me. Im not having you risk others lives because you watch news from unverified sources and think you’re smarter then scientists. You can go back to the cave you came from then.
Congrats on owning a business. I guess getting a T&B Licence makes you a smart person. Just curious, can you share some of that wisdom with us and explain how getting a booster make a difference to anyone else’s safety since it’s abundantly clear that it has almost negligible effects on reducing transmission.
First, love to see your data on it having no effect on transmission. Second, you do understand the difference between transmission and consequences, don’t you? If not, have a look at the mortality results for vaccinated versus non vaccinated.
Transmission is not the problem dumbass, it’s dying…. which the unvaccinated are doing quite well at.
Vaccinated are dying too. Do you not read the news?
Do you know that every single one of those are old or have serious underlying health issues?
Not true at all. In the news recently was a doctor in his thirties, fit healthy and vaccinated. Covid killed him and there are more.
Boom
Get vaccinated or you’ll be fired. Tough.
Tell us what/where your business is so we can avoid it and patronize businesses with owners who love others more than you do.
With that attitude I’d be happy to keep you out of my business.
Come on then big man, name your business or shut up
Calling mine Only the Vaxxed to make it real easy for you geniuses.
Tell us which one you own, so that we all know profits mean more to you than people do.
Seems to be quite the opposite from what OP is saying.
Sounds to me that you are totally ignorant of the science.
I think you have a few screws loose if you think that about the poster.
Me thinks you are absolutely full of it !! You are just a typical vaccine loving cheerleader. Also with that attitude, you will never be a successful business owner.
Which business? I’d like to avoid spending money with you
Which business? The reasonable people would like to avoid funding someone who favors profits over protection.
This rate would increase if vaccination were a requirement to enter any crowded indoor public space such as restaurants and bars, (ie is required for gyms now).
The CMOs latest briefing showed a 95% vaccination rate amongst those over 12. Pretty hard to improve on that by restricting access to restaurants and bars. Government will be more focused on injecting the largest group amongst the 17% unvaccinated – the 5-11s.
Step back Babylon.
Doesn’t work. Watch what Cyrille Cohen one of Israel’s top immunologists says about boosters, vaccine passports and school closures (no he is not anti vaccination, he is very pro)
Israel is the most vaccinated country in the world and also has the most cases per Capita. Can someone in the vaccine cult explain that to me please?
Also what’s the point in boosting everyone if so many people have had omicron by now they all have natural immunity?
Also how many times per year do the vaccine cult people expect to get boosted? Apparently it would require a booster every month to keep sufficient antibodies to do anything for omicron.
Also omicron is so mild it’s comparable to a bad seasonal flu. If Pfizer and the pharma companies didn’t represent 65% of ad revenue for MSM you wouldn’t hear about omicron anymore.
Well first its not even in the top 10 of cases per capita. But passing over that, its also 88th in the list of deaths per capita, so given the vaccine is not claimed to prevent you catching the disease, but reduces its effects, think you need a better example for your thesis that its not worth getting vaccinated.
BTW catching Covid doesn’t stop you catching it again, so that part of your argument is pants too.
Because you need to look up Hasidic Jews and realize that’s the number one hospitalization there. They are anti-VAX.
they are not given a choice there- it is mandatory
But yet for religious grounds they aren’t taking them so it’s not so mandatory is it
In FAFO news, Denmark, which is dropping all restrictions on Tuesday, reports 51,033 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record.
Are you paying attention at all to the changing conditions and the benefits of vaccinations reducing serious illness and deaths. a lot of vaccinations require a booster 3 to 6 months after the first injections. Try hepatitus A&B or Shingles. Both require a second at later dates.
When’s the last time you got a booster hepatitus, A&B or Shingles?
2 years ago. The good news is hepatitis is not mutating so we don’t have to keep getting new shots you dumb ass.
Dumb ass? Then why the need for the booster if no mutations? Shows how smart you are.
I haven’t done it because HSA went back to a letter system for boosters. When I checked my initial there was only one day out of over a week available for my last name and only until 4pm. I couldn’t get there by 4pm, and I couldn’t take that day off. So no booster for me, even though I want one.
Surely some of the herb seized on the recent boat in Beach Bay is all the cure we need? C’mon RCIPS share that amongst us all don’t be greedy!
Got my QR code to travel, don’t need any more drugs now thanks very much. Never had a flu shot in my life (never had flu) don’t plan on changing my lifestyle now. Shot of vitamin C daily is all it takes. I’m still hopeful of one day trying my home cure for covid, 750ml of vodka, x2 monster energy and x6 paracetamol.
Can we now just make mask wearing mandatory for the unvaccinated this charade had gone on long enough?!
Shot of vitamin C daily.
Are you talking about supplements or intramuscular injection? I just got from my oversea relatives, obviously not the US, vitamin C ampules-it is sold without prescription in many countries. I got all other medicine and supplements for C19 prevention and early treatments if I get sick. I wish more people knew about cheap and effective c19 treatment/prevention protocols.
Sorry I’m talking about an orange!!!
Lol! 😝
Why doesn’t anyone talk about the importance of T-Cells and B-Cells when it comes to fighting off COVID?
“Our findings underscore the fact that we need to look at T cells, not just antibodies, if we want a complete picture of the vaccine response for those who have not had COVID-19 and for those who have recovered from the disease,” said senior author E. John Wherry, PhD, chair of the department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics and director of the Penn Institute of Immunology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
It’s one of the reasons that viral vector adenovirus vaccines (Jansen/AstraZeneca) may be more effective with Covid-19 — enhanced spike-specific CD4+ T cell helper type 1 (Th1) and CD8+ T-cell responses. Probably not enough data or peer-reviewed studies in yet; probably very little impetus for such studies.
Why on earth would you risk injecting a child with a trial vaccine with zero long term data?
In children, a COVID infection is usually asymptomatic or only causes a short, mild illness.
A UK study of a year of COVID found the chances of a child fatality to be one in 500,000. The likelihood of a child falling seriously ill was one in 40,000. Most of the children impacted in the UK had significant comorbidities, according to the study led by researchers from University College London.
They are pushing for children to be vaccinated for the economy. Gross.
Open the link and scroll down to the part that states “ Children
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 is not recommended for children under 12 years”.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-for-covid-19/information-for-uk-recipients-on-pfizerbiontech-covid-19-vaccine
Pfizer have started developing an omicron specific booster, after a few required trials it should be available in a few months. Excellent news, that could protect us permanently with an annual shot. Let’s just hope the powers that be don’t delay and require loads of medical trials before it’s rolled out.
I’d say you have misplaced faith as omicron will be done in a few months.
Denmark, which is dropping all restrictions on Tuesday, reports 51,033 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record.
Let’s do it Cayman! Let’s drop all restrictions and see if we can set case records too!
We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out.
Dr. Brown wants all of us that have had two shots, to have a third, all while refusing to have her own super-spread organizing staff, have a first, and only a couple of weeks ago was turning away people seeking a booster BECAUSE THEY HAD THE WRONG LAST NAME!
Sorry Doc. We have lost faith and confidence. Not ready. Not safe. This is insane.
You mean to tell me that people are ignoring Kenny’s plagiarized and illegal sign? Say it ain’t so.
Instead of being ‘ worried’ about the absence of the uptake , how about actually doing something to answer the question of why the percentages are total shit? HSA knows every single person that is eligible for the 3rd jab and has so far not got it . Go out and ask them why they haven’t got it , Crazy idea? It may help Cayman navigate itself out of the carnival atmosphere manic testing freak show we are currently in.
“To date, just one person in the Cayman Islands has been confirmed to have died without any comorbidity and as a direct result of COVID-19 disease.”
Sips tea and reads reports of possible long term effects boosters have on the immune system.
You armchair experts really are whackadoodles.
but smart a$$es like you resort to insults.😛
Well you deserve them
Just shows the vaccine has been working doesn’t it or there would be over 100 deaths.
Prove me wrong
you were in my dream last night. prove me wrong.
That’s like praying away a hurricane instead of securing your house instead. The vaccines do work and it’s been proven over and over again.
Guessing you woke up in a damp spot then.
Does it factor to CMO and Public Health that there is a cheap child-friendly tool that can reliably filter-out nearly all the asymptomatic super-spreaders in 5-10 minutes? Community-wide LFTing should be a corn flakes ritual for the entire community. Secure wholesale quantities and get them into hands asap. Then we can live normally without >10% population needing to experience firsthand every next variant, every couple months…forever. Ignoring tools that can side-step that experience is not normal. There is absolutely no guarantee that future variants get milder.
Except I have heard from numerous people with this wave that they tested negative on LFT, while being symptomatic. That happened to me as well. I was isolating because my symptoms sounded suspiciously like COVID, but I have heard of many others having a “cold” or “flu” and not being as careful, because, despite repeated LFTs, they showed negative. An entire family isolated for two weeks because a child tested positive—while the others consistently tested negative—and at exit PCR they all got tested, and all were positive. I think we need to figure out a better way to curb this than relying on a test that seems unreliable at best to pick up this latest variant.
BA.2 variant is avoiding detection on tests. Prepare accordingly!
Aren’t you obsessed with LFT? This is may be your 20th comment about it.
Most likely one of those peddling them at 100% markup.
Not everyone can afford daily testing.
Think of all that plastic waste every day.
Not the way forward.
No one is dying. Accept it like the flu & take an annual shot directed at the current variant circulating.
Why bother! There have been no new case since Jan 20!
So you’re the guy operating the Wakandan force field! Cool!
Well, let me get my teenager boosted already.
How can it be “already” and you have not done it as yet?
Always wonder…
We have thousands of vaccine doses that will expire in the coming weeks and the uptake of the first booster has been good with the most at risk but has stalled with the rest of the population.
It is also known that the efficacy of the booster starts to decrease after about 10 weeks. It seems to me that rather than letting the booster shots we have expire and then throwing them away we should be allowing those most at risk to have a second booster on a voluntary basis after 4 months. I am not saying force anybody to take a second booster but it would be better to use them on the most at risk rather than send them to the landfill.
You should listen to what the Israeli top immunologist adviser to the government says about boosters and they have tried four.
6:20 what you suggest makes perfect sense and for that reason alone CIG will never make such a logical choice.
And so maybe you should reward the people that are boosted… Leaving us to our own devices and not making us go and get tested when we come down with a little flu because that’s what it is for the vaccinated.
Fit, middle-aged, triple vaxed and it’s not a little flu. I don’t want my career and life to suffer running multi-day fevers next month and the month after that with some other variant, simply because the wider community can’t be bothered to responsibly LFT themselves. It almost doesn’t matter who’s vaccinated anymore. All that matters is whether that person reaching for the same box of pasta had the basic courtesy to LFT before coming to the store.
Ummm. If I am feeling perfectly healthy I am not LFTing before I go grocery shopping. Honestly. This is ridiculous.
Better get yourself a dozen fidget spinners, stress balls, blue blockers, full playlist of Seal for your earbuds and a years supply of Prozac. Masks are coming off very soon buttercup.
Cool! I hope we can be like Denmark! Denmark, which is dropping all restrictions on Tuesday, reports 51,033 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record
Op here. I’m currently with Covid….
I was sick as hell too.
Did you die?
You are right. It is definitely not “a little flu”. I had it, twice, and flu is much, much worse.
Not everyone can afford daily LFT. You do know what the minimum wage is? Lots of labourers, helpers, staff at the supermarket & gas stations cannot afford a test every day.
You test yourself every time you leave the house…?
January 27, 2022
U.S. DAILY COVID update: More than 3,500 new deaths
That’s more lives lost to Covid than the 9/11 attacks, in a single day.
Also in heavily vaccinated South Korea:
South Korea reports 14,518 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record.
Get vaccinated and stop worrying
Great, how about you buy LFTs for everyone who make barely minimum wage in a highly expensive place? I’m sure you have at least one of them working for you.
You have to be absolutely mad to not get a booster as soon as available. With a booster COVID now means no symptoms, without the booster you could die.
What do you mean by booster? It’s just another dose of the same crap you’ve already taken twice.
Yea! This far into Covid, the unvaccinated dead bodies should be piling up any minute now. God knows what’s taking them so long.
Terribly misinformed you are. Personally know people in their 20s (boosted) who ended up in hospital with moderate Omicron.
Denmark healthcare meet-up of 33 people – all boosted. 21 infected with Omicron and 100% of them symptomatic.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.22.21268021v1.full.pdf
I’m sure they were not healthy people
It was probably the spike protein in the vaccine.
CNS changed its story, last year you said this was false.
“While the vaccine is not preventing people from catching or spreading the virus, the shots are exceedingly good at preventing severe illness and death.”
CNS: The second part of the sentence has remained true throughout. However, the virus has mutated and the newer variants are not behaving like the original.
TL/DR Dr. Topol: “I’m not aware of anything else in medicine that reduces death by 99%.”
“Vaccines aren’t perfect. The effectiveness wanes, and there are extremely rare adverse reactions. But the science is clear about the nearly 10 billion doses of all coronavirus vaccines administered so far around the world: Those who are vaccinated are far less likely to be seriously ill, hospitalized or die from covid-19. The mRNA vaccines are some of the most effective. According to Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, the weekly covid U.S. death rate for those unvaccinated is 9.74 per 100,000 people; for the fully vaccinated but lacking a booster, it is .71 per 100,000, and for those with a booster on top of the other shots, it is only 0.1 per 100,000. Says Dr. Topol: “I’m not aware of anything else in medicine that reduces death by 99%.”
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/25/vaccine-doubters-deserve-answers-not-dangerous-lies/
This would be a great statistic if only the 99.97% of the population who were never going to die from covid in the first place were excluded from the premise.
And we won’t consider therapeutics that chisel away at the remainder, nor will we consider injuries and deaths related to vaccines.
Is there a place in Camana bay to get the booster shot? If not, why?
Dude, boosters have been available since October. The vax pop-up at the old Apple store came and went already.
Exactly my point. Where in Camana bay is it available?
So 2 doses didn’t work, let’s do a 3rd.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The shots worked the first time, that’s why it’s worth getting another to maintain protection.
Every vaccine needs a refresher.
But not so soon after the original
When did you last have a smallpox or polio booster?
Quote from CDC:
If you need long-term protection, you may need to get booster vaccinations regularly. To stay protected from smallpox, you should get booster vaccinations every 3 years.
When there IS a smallpox outbreak, you should get the smallpox vaccine if you are directly exposed to smallpox virus. For example, if you had a prolonged face-to-face contact with someone who has smallpox.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/smallpox/index.html
You missed the counter point. The poster said ‘every vaccine needs a booster’ which is not true. Btw i would not be too reliant on CDC as they lose credibility each day it seems, not to mention the numerous lawsuits being launched against them.
One of the most stupid comments ever posted on CNS. the vaccines work
Do you mean yours?
Are you paying attention at all to the changing conditions and the benefits of vaccinations reducing serious illness and deaths. a lot of vaccinations require a booster 3 to 6 months after the first injections. Try hepatitus A&B or Shingles. Both require a second at later dates.
Pfizer is now at 4, within 12 months.
And it doesn’t even work as a vaccine
Seriously, you’ve never had tetnus boosters then?
Yes. Because I work in construction, I get a tetanus booster every eight years. The recommendation is for every TEN years.
Stop confirmation and exit testing now.
Idk, maybe make it optional to conserve supplies. Certified PCR positive can be a plus for some as it can expedite screening for those planning to travel internationally for 6 months. Basically, if someone volunteers they are putting themselves into their own positive LFT timeout, we should thank them, and trust they aren’t self-imposing their own community and work sanction out of malice.
The one jab Johnson & Johnson vaccine was not offered, so it was the two jab Pfizer. Now it’s three jabs with the Booster, which still does not stop you getting sick. When will enough be enough? I’m done with being a human pincushion.
Stay in sköl kids.
Just let people do what they want, if they get sick then it is there own problem. You can not be Mama to everyone and from these comments you have listed, let them go. Good luck everyone!
wow, 3 needles in over a year makes you a pincushion.
what a dramatic, red snowflake.
I hate all the Republican cancel culture, always trying to cancel the vaccine, Sad!
Let’s hope that this factored into the government decisions to put the community at increased risk.
Why is there still such a high number of government employees not vaccinated?
Smart people
😂🤣☝️🤡
Because some animals are more important than others
Because intelligence is not equally distributed.
Why did the FDA seek to keep clinical data secure from the public for 75 years should be the question you are asking. Thankfully a US judge has overturned it and we will know the results in the coming months.
“But in the short term, she said the booster was the best way for Cayman to get itself out of this current wave of infections.”
“She said it is the decline in protection from the vaccine that has fuelled the infection levels because people don’t realise that two shots may no longer be enough to protect them.”
It has been widely demonstrated that the the existing vaccines do little to prevent infection with Omicron. Not sure how Dr. Newton can make these statements. It truly undermines her credibility.
It’s pretty clear to anyone (pro-vax and anti-vax alike) that this is going to have to run its course through the population before the infection numbers start to fall. As is the case everywhere else.
It’s clear that getting vaccinated (and probably getting boosted as well) is still the right thing to do to reduce one’s chance of serious illness and death. Certainly if you’re vulnerable at all it’s a no-brainer. But if you want to convince the skeptics that a booster is needed, show them why.
As for vaccinating children, they are (nearly) all unvaccinated and seem to be doing very well despite the raging numbers. Perhaps there have been a few children hospitalised but there has been little publicity about the demographics of the hospitalised people. If in fact the truth is that children and otherwise healthy people make up a very small number of the seriously ill patients it’s going to be a hard sell to the skeptics. And perhaps that’s why they haven’t publicised it.
Why worry? Seems like people are waking up.
Let us hope that highly vaccinated Israel wakes up.
Israel COVID update: Number in hospital at all-time high
– New cases: 93,983
– Average: 80,575 (+9,030)
– In hospital: 2,311 (+55)
– In ICU: 259 (+15)
– New deaths: 11
– Average: 22 (-)
After 4 jabs they realised it makes little difference
9 million people in Israel, and 60% have had 2 does.
So there are 3,600,000 Israelis that are not vaccinated, that’s a lot of people with none, or rapidly deteriorating natural immunity to get sick.
With all due respect to Dr. Newton, it has been widely publicised that the booster seems to only provide something like 10 weeks of enhanced protection and very little protection against infection with Omicron. I think a lot of people (particularly those who were reluctant or ambivalent about the vacccine) are looking at that and figuring that this limited period of enhanced protection doesn’t justify the need for the third booster.
I think the authorities will need to do a better job countering that narrative if they want to increase uptake. People are tired of covid. It’s sinking in that it isn’t going away and there is no real end in sight. There are likely to be new variants around the corner. Absent a widely-adopted change of the definition of fully vaccinated from two shots to three, and corresponding penalties in terms of freedom of movement, I can’t see any kind of public messaging that’s going to make a material difference in uptake.
And, frankly, absent a strong case that three shots provides materially better protection against serious illness and death than two, I don’t think changing the definition of fully vaccinated would be justified.
That said, I’m open to being convinced otherwise if someone can show data that proves that three shots are that much better than two.
Because another vaccine campaign should be a raging success…
Should call this ‘Booster number one.’ I think there will be more and more. We will become vaccine dependent.
Who cares. In cayman it’s not exactly a hardship to quickly go and get an annual or 6 monthly booster.
Nothing different than the annual flu shot, for the vunerable.
How many more boosters you going take? You guys were lied to.
Dude, it’s like a flu shot. Get over yourself.
Not one person has been forced to take the flu shot.
People waking up.
Can’t blame them tbh…
Life is full of choices. #stopovertestingnow