COVID-19 cases reveal first hint of decline
(CNS): The latest estimated figures from the Public Health Department reveal there were far fewer new positive cases of COVID-19 from Thursday through Saturday that were confirmed through PCR testing compared to the previous three days. Over 27, 28 and 29 January, 580 people tested positive for SARS-CoV-19, including 22 on the Sister Islands.
This was less than half of the 1,285 cases recorded over 24, 25 and 26 January, which indicates that either testing slowed down dramatically over the weekend or the relentless community spread, fuelled by the Omicron variant over the last two months, is finally showing signs of slowing down.
However, there are still 5,708 people in isolation and more than 18 people admitted to the hospital.
Public Health is expected to release the weekly situation report tomorrow, with figures reflecting last week’s results. This is likely to reveal a significant increase on the previous week, though that may ultimately prove to have been the peak of transmission for the Cayman Islands.
A concern for Cayman is that there have been signs recently that the number of cases of the Delta variant, which tends to cause more sickness, especially in the unvaccinated, was rising again, even though Omicron remained dominant.
Statistics from around the world show some of the countries hardest hit by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus are now showing signs of a decline in infections. But this does not necessarily mean the beginning of the end. Most scientists believe that further mutations of the virus and new variants are inevitable.
Last week, WHO official Maria Van Kerkhove warned against theories that the virus will continue to mutate into milder strains that make people less sick than earlier variants. During a Q&A on social media, she said that we can expect any new variant to be exceptionally contagious and not necessarily less virulent than previous strains.
“The next variant of concern will be more fit, and what we mean by that is it will be more transmissible because it will have to overtake what is currently circulating,” Van Kerkhove said. “The big question is whether or not future variants will be more or less severe.”
“There is no guarantee that the next strain will be less dangerous and public safety measures need to remain in place,” she said and noted the concern that the next version of COVID-19 could evade vaccine protection even more.
Meanwhile, the flu clinic is back at its original location at the hospital located to the left of A&E between 8am and 8pm Mon-Fri, and 10am-6pm on Sat.
Anyone with flu symptoms is urged to stay at home in the first instance and contact the 24 hour Flu Hotline or your general practitioner to speak to a health professional about those symptoms before visiting the flu or testing clinic.
Flu Hotline: 1-800-534-8600 or 345-947-3077 or 345-925- 6327 or email flu@hsa.ky
Callers will be screened for travel history, advise on what you should do next.
CIG COVID-19 information and resources
Report positive lateral flow test results
See current vaccine and testing schedule
An Isolation Support Line is available to help by delivering groceries or other essential supplies for people required to isolate suddenly, and who do not have other resources and support.
For Isolation Support call 946-3530 or 1-800-534-3530 or email isolationsupport@gov.ky
Operational hours 9am-4pm, Monday to Friday, and 9am-1pm on Saturday.
For mental health support, the Mental Health Helpline can be reached on
1-800-534-6463(MIND) from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pmIf you have flu symptoms contact the 24-hour Flu Hotline at 1-800-534-8600 or 947-3077
or email flu@hsa.kyIf you are having difficulty breathing, call 911
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Singing
“Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
Want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?”
No end in sight. More sickness. More deaths.
PACT – is it raining with you?
Drove all the way up to Ed Bush for an exit PCR, at the appointed time for surname, only to discover it had been closed. Security guard incorrectly directing exit patients to the hospitals. Flu hotline saying that there was a “press release” to the media and public noting this closure…where/when? The law-abiding Public is loosing trust with Public Health’s misfires on all this easy stuff.
Same. They said we can go and get an exit PCR at doctors hospital. Obviously not the case. If one little post on their Facebook account is a public notice then they have no idea how to do this job and they should probably outsource it.
Just stop and carry on with your life
cases going up, testing going down. stop testing and eliminate the wirus.
Trumpster method
Lockdowns, school closures and limiting gatherings only reduced COVID mortality by 0.2% at ‘enormous economic and social costs’, study finds
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10466995/New-study-says-lockdowns-reduced-COVID-mortality-2-percent.html
Wonder where corporate media and capitalist governments got these ideas from…
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/22/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/
This is what will happen when you start charging for testing and when the government doesn’t have its isolation and testing program working as it should be. Add to the mix a good number of people that refuse to report their positive status for whatever reason and the cases will definitely be in decline.
Public health screening PCRs are free. There’s enough not working that we don’t need to make up things.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/tonga-goes-into-lockdown-after-tsunami-aid-brings-covid-19/ar-AATnJht?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
3 weeks quarantine and you all are whining over 11 days.
They have bought the big lie. Hook, line, and sinker.
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/22/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/
I dialled the new mental health hotline and the automated attendant said
If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.
If you are co-dependent, ask someone to press 2 for you.
If you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5 and 6.
If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. Stay on the line so we can trace your call.
If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to the mother ship.
If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a small voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are depressive, it doesn’t matter which number you press – no one will answer you.
If you are dyslexic, press 981759812.
If you have a nervous disorder, please fidget with the hash key until the beep after the beep please wait for the beep.
If you have low self esteem, hang up. All our operators are too busy to talk to you.
If you have amnesia, press 8 and state your name, address, phone number, date of birth, credit card number and you grandmother’s maiden name.
If you have post-traumatic stress disorder, slowly and carefully press 911
If you have bi-polar disorder, please leave a message after the beep, or before the beep. Actually, after the beep. Or before the beep.
If you have short term memory loss, press 9
If you have short term memory loss, press 9
If you have short term memory loss, press 9
If you have short term memory loss, press 9
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OMG! [gasping for air]
That is the funniest comment I have read on CNS everrr!
Still laughing
[gasp]
I can’t even…
Too funnyyyy!
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Caymanians are just a bunch of whiners. I’m so sick and tired of hearing all of you whine and complain. “Oh, my life is so hard. I’m a prisoner in my own home.” Just a bunch of entitled nincompoops. Boo hoo. The older generation must be turning over in their graves hearing the whiners. To think the real hard life that they had and fought for destroyed by a bunch of cry babies. “We’re in prison.” I would love to put all of you in a real prison like locked up abroad. How about Siberia?
What are you talking about?
Siberia today is just like any region in any country. Stalin is dead, by the way.
Few people in Cayman still seriously terrified of Covid. They need mental help. The rest just want to live their normal lives.
Agreed. Very few are worried about this.
80% plus got double vaxxed, 28% boosted. If people were truly worried, the boosted would approach the 80%.
Simple explanation for this:
The decline in numbers being due to people not registering with the Authority for the PCR once they get a positive LFT at home.
Or in other words, people are wising up.
Anarchy!
We ride at dawn.
it is really unfair that tourists can fly in a negative lateral flow test and we who live here have to have a negative PCR test before we can be released from isolation even though we are testing negative for days in a row with the lateral flow test somebody needs to rethink that policy
We are prisoners in our own country
Long shall it continue. Cayman will just move between variants for the foreseeable future under the current regime of infection and testing mandates. Hard to say how long for at this soon to be the 2 year mark. It would be un-reasonable to expect people to continue living under these circumstances, while at the same time reasonable to understand why people will consider planning their departure from Cayman for their future outlook. Not all people are in this same boat/ group as many can’t or won’t have the ability to live elsewhere. The demographics that decide these choices are many and varied.
“we who live here’ can also fly in with a negative LFT. Tourists are coming at barely a trickle because of the additional 3 LFT that both “we who live here” and tourists have to take, and if tourists test positive while here they need a PCR also to exit isolation.
Yes somebody needs to rethink the policy, but not what you are saying. Nobody wants to visit Cayman because a family of 4 will have to spend between about $600 usd (USA) and $1200 usd (canada) just in tests to come here. That is the policy that needs to change. (canada requires PCR to return $150 usd each)
Its over. Follow the lead of mother England and scrap all the now ridiculous regulations and get on with your life, or whats left of it.
Good luck! Not with the clowns we have coming up with their own guidlines everyother day. Get over it people!
Falling numbers tell of a public that are sick of the failing system of public health. Report it and one is doomed to wait in limbo while public health fails miserably at testing people tap that you can leave quarantine. Stay home if you feel bad, once better give it a day or two…..
I wonder about that. I think the data is inaccurate because fewer people are reporting it to the government anymore for obvious reasons.
Bingo
Or, people like many I know, are not reporting positives because it takes too long once you’re stuck in the system.
Cases declining, or reporting to CIG declining?
Does not matter. The world, but Cayman, has moved on.
I wonder if public health has considered that a declines in cases may also be directly linked to a decline in reporting?
No, bobo. They think we are dumbos
A statistical decline means:
(a) we aren’t checking, and/or
(b) population have low confidence in Public Health release and aren’t reporting, and/or
(c) it’s reached the peak saturation point of easiest hosts for this round.
Still a long taper of two variants in the community, largely defiant, where there is no enforcement of public health regulations, and insidious false hope for a herd immunity promised land.
Could it be that official numbers are only dropping because people have just stopped reporting positive LFTs, due to the severe inconvenience of then being in the system and waiting many additional days to get results / be released?
More likely it’s because HSA are charging $75 for a PCR test!
Not when you’ve reported a positive LFT result to them. The confirmation PCR test and the exit PCR test are both free.
And wholly unnecessary.
And a waste of money (tests/staff/premises). Stop the PCR confirmation & exit. Be guided by the science please PACT (which you claim to be doing).
Common sense from Denmark.
“Denmark has lifted all Covid-19 restrictions within the country, with coronavirus no longer considered a “socially critical sickness,” according to the government.
This means that an indoor mask mandate, the use of a “Covid pass” for bars, restaurants and other indoor venues, and the legal obligation to self-isolate if you test positive are all ending.
“No one can know what will happen next December. But we promised the citizens of Denmark that we will only have restrictions if they are truly necessary and we’ll lift them as soon as we can,” Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke told CNN on Monday. “That’s what’s happening right now.”
5 days ago: Denmark, which is dropping all restrictions on Tuesday, reports 51,033 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record
The article continues.
“At the same time as infections are skyrocketing, patients admitted to intensive care actually going down,” he said. “It’s around 30 people in ICU beds right now with a COVID-19 diagnosis, out of a population of 6 million.”
Infection’s are not the problem, hospitalisation and death are the only issues that should be of concern.
Stop being scared of infection and get on with your lives.
PACT Govt has no common sense but fear mongering!
Oh look from John Hopkins, the flu spreads even if you put people behind closed doors. Imagine that……. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jan/31/lockdowns-had-little-or-no-impact-covid-19-deaths-/
Thousands are not reporting positive results to avoid quarantine and missing work
22 new cases on the Sister Islands you say? How’s that LFT strategy working out for you? Pilar, where you at?
Pilar is walking into a vacuum of IQ. She will be lucky to remain sane.
“This was less than half the cases ,which indicates that either testing slowed down or the community sprea is finally showing signs of slowing down”,
or people with a cough and a runny nose that can’t afford to be locked down at home for 14-17 days are being responsible humans and testing themselves into, and out of isolation.
It is, of course, only 7 days isolation now, for those who are vaccinated.
It’s not 7 days if you report to Public Health. Everyone I know is on test 2 or 3 trying to exit (10 to 14 days). PH claims they are still positive.
It’s not Public Health that decides how fast Delta or Omicron cycles through people. A day 7 release is still quite optimistic for some people. My fit/triple vaxed/non-drinking/healthy diet spouse ran a fever for a few days, and is still testing positive on home LFT on day 7, so no point going for an exit PCR just yet. To all the armchair experts: your mileage may vary, and your number is coming. If you’re in isolation, get some LFTs and don’t waste everyone’s time/resources on day 7 with a PCR if you are still testing positive on a LFT.
Finally, a sane person. Everyone reacts different. My son was the last to test negative. His baby and girlfriend tested negative first.
yawn…all people need to do:
if symptomatic…stay home till asymptomatic.
Common sense says there are not less cases, just less reporting. Governments insistence on completely unnecessary exits PCRs is pushing the public to ignore requests to report. This is causing statistics to be skewed. Less and less people are reporting every week, so it will show cases dropping, when that probably is not the case yet.
There is no end.
There can never be an end.
Government must keep its new powers of surveillance and control.
Government must reach for ever more intrusive powers.
After all, the people are their own pathogen, and must be protected from themselves.
They must be locked up.
They must submit to endless tests.
They must be criminalised and their entire existence medicalised.
The end state can only ever be people hating themselves and their neighbours so much that they will submit to the Government without question.
We must hate ourselves, we absolutely must, it is the only way for the will of the people to become truly dominant.
Paranoid nonsense
I thought that, until I realised they were out to get me.
Posted from behind your locked front door wearing two masks
And you must be one of the freedom brigade who believe the others are acting in fear?
Yet the freedom brigade are motivated by fear- just different fears- of course they would never own up to it. SMH
1. The Freedom brigade live in fear of the so-called loss of their freedoms and they even fear the future loss of freedoms!
2. They fear the Great Reset (despite not accepting that there is hardly a government in the Western world right now that isn’t a minority gov’t and none of the players in any party trust one another- yet the fearful freedom brigade believe those same dysfunctional govt can all agree, conspire, and execute on a ‘Great Reset’). Nevertheless, go on and live in that fear as you do freedom brigade.
3. The freedom brigade fear the impacts on their children, families etc. (many of these may be valid and proven out over time but it doesn’t change the fact that the freedom fighters are living and motivated by fear).
I experience the freedom fighters claims of the pro-restrictions camp being fearful to be disingenuous in their statements. I challenge them to lose their rhetoric and accept that they are operating in fear as much as the other side.
Fear is fear. There are no qualifiers.
So about that, still won’t be reporting.
Fewer cases or are people just not reporting and going through the ordeal of getting out of isolation?