Active COVID-19 cases fall to under 1,600
(CNS): The spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the Cayman Islands appears to be decreasing significantly and the number of people now isolating as a result of a positive test dropped to around 1,580 as of Sunday morning. However, according to the latest figures released by the Public Health Department, the number of people in hospital over the weekend increased to 14 patients from just nine on Friday morning. Ten of them are unvaccinated.
Despite the increase in hospitalisations, the overall daily figures are continuing to fall. Fewer than 300 new cases of the virus were reported to Public Health between 16 and 20 February, including 14 cases on the Sister Islands.
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Should be “Active Reported Cases Drop to Under 1600”. Everyone knows (except HSA?) that self-testers are not always reporting positive cases.
Not testing, not reporting.
The number to ask for (that PubHealth should release proactively these days) is number of available hospital beds at GT & Brac. (Leaving aside private hospital beds, available for emergencies of course but we’re living with COVID now.) Note that total % beds used is NOT a measure of COVID. But it is a measure the public (and politicians) want when making national decisions about COVID (and a bunch of other stuff). I heard that its a number you might want to ask for if there is to be an informed discussion, about a bunch of things.
Get rid of the mask mandates in schools now! It’s not good for our children and their learning.
Time to let the unvaccinated enter the country with a negative PCR or whatever test, and end the this quarantine foolishness altogether.
If you’re vaccinated, what do you have to worry about?
Oh yah, that’s right, you all can catch and spread it too. I thought unna was protected. 🤦🏻
Positives must quarantine to avoid spreading the virus to 14 others (BA.2 R0=14), and that shouldn’t change – maybe play the averages and shorten the home stay to 7 days. But you’re not wrong in that waning vax status, or no prior immunity, seems to matter less and less with each evolving wave of Omicron BA.1 and BA.2, and whatever variant comes next. Hospitals have been tested, but now have spare capacity for those rolling these dice, and I truly wish all them the best of luck. Policy needs to balance personal liberty with hospitalisation capacity, and focus on screening-out asymptomatic hosts, who, vaxed or not, remain the only community problem. We have reliable and cheap tools to do that. By this point, everyone has placed their survival plan bets. Focusing so heavily on vax status in policy framework is acutely out of touch with the clinical reality we are in. There is still no herd immunity, vaccination is fleeting, and doesn’t confer invincibility.
Actually, most vaccinated people knew they weren’t “protected” from catching and spreading. They got vaccinated to help stop people like you potentially dying because you are not vaccinated. So before making silly statements remember that you and other friends and family that are not vaccinated may only be alive today because we got vaccinated.
Dumbest thing I’ve heard. Everyone got vaxxed to protect themselves. It was sold to us as invincibility. We bought it hook, line and sinker, and then science changed. The bogus argument that you take it to protect others went out the window the minute the vax could not stop transmission.
how does you being vaccinated, help the un-vaccinated from dying? Your double speaking now.
what your saying makes absolutely no sense.
Otherwise, if you being vaccinated helps those not vaccinated from dying, why not all of us simply not be vaccinated. And none of us would die. Either way, right?
Your logic is flawed
nah..unvaxxed need to be punished for their stupidity and selfishness.
If anyone is foolish enough to believe this, I can make you a deal on the Brooklyn Bridge. Cash only unless you toss in a patty and some rum.
Give me a break. People stopped reporting weeks ago.
Almost time for the Civil Servants to get back to work then. I see they have a big 5k coming up, all hands on deck!
It’s over friends. Time to get back to life.
So you’re cool with 14 people in the hospital?
Nice empathy you have there
Why do we even have hospitals and cemeteries anymore? Death is a thing of the past, isn’t it? (Sarcasm) Personally, I’ve known no one to die of Covid. But I’ve lost family and friends over last two years to cancer, heart failure, old age (at least that’s what it used to be called), and suicide. I have the booster, so I take Covid seriously. But there’s a thing called perspective, that’s been drastically lacking over the last two years, as the world turns left.
I lost both parents, and an uncle to COVID in the last years, and 2 friends that have been suffering from Long Covid for over a year.
I personally know no-one who has died from cancer, heart decease, etc. in the same period.
Everyone’s experience is different.
Everyone complains about the quarantine, etc, but if you look how few COVID deaths there have been in Cayman, is seems to have worked.
Calling BS on this one.
Get lost you scion
You don’t think we had people in hospital due to flu and other respiratory diseases in previous winters?
6.39pm I heat up when I see that 10 of the 14 taking up hospital resources never bothered to be vaccinated.
President Biden extended national emergency for COVID-19, says the pandemic continues to cause significant risk to public health and safety.
Guess where your tourists are coming from.
Who is Biden?
From the land of fear and control?
So naive. We all wish for it but its not over as yet. Covid is up and down.
BA2 is coming.
Whose Naive ?
6.39pm “Who is” not “whose”.
Who’s
Actually, BA.2 was first sequenced in Cayman on February 3rd. Meanwhile in that time, we’ve gone from nearly 20% of community in quarantine positive to around 2.3% in just 3 weeks, which is good news. Active cases under 660 would really be great news, meaning under 1% positivity, and hopefully that’s a week away.