Elderly patient dies as daily COVID cases grow
(CNS): An elderly COVID-19 hospital patient has died, Public Health officials said Friday, bringing the local death toll to 26 people. The death of the patient also comes against the backdrop of rising cases of the virus. Four people with SARS-CoV-2 remain in the hospital, including one vaccinated patient, as the estimated number of active cases grew to 556.
Over the last four days of March an additional 188 people have been officially reported as positive for COVID-19, including 52 new cases yesterday.
While the increasing numbers fall far short of the peak in February, when hundreds of people were testing positive every day and thousands were in isolation, the number of people currently infected has increased by 132 since the low of 424 active cases on 21 March, when the average daily rate fell to just 28.
The upturn is likely due to the Omicron B2.A sub-variant, aka ‘the stealth omicron’ which is the most contagious of all the strains of this coronavirus so far and is driving increases in many countries around the world at time when protocols are also being reduced.
So far, medical experts believe that while it is more easily transmitted, it is no more severe or better able to evade the vaccine or immunity from prior infection.
Given Cayman’s solid vaccination rate and the huge number of people who had the virus over the last six months, it is unlikely to have a serious impact on the health of people here. However, the elderly, vulnerable and unvaccinated continue to be at heightened risk of becoming sick, severely ill or even dying.
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Have to say I have pretty much lost confidence in the new directorate at Public Health and the Ministry of No Longer Health. The decision to throw away vaccine doses rather than allow people at risk to have a second booster that has been approved in the US, the UK and Canada makes no sense at all.
When is the second booster going to be made available??? Please let those at risk who want a booster get one without having to fly to Miami.
Serious question – why would anyone dislike the idea of people who could benefit from a second booster getting one?
Many negative side effects. Perhaps if you were forced to pay your medical bills, you’d stop getting them and make Cayman safer.
I heard a nurse or midwife got a positive result, but decided to ignore it and go back to work.Its this self centered selfish attitude (in our own healthcare too!!) that we’re supposed to trust with our life, that’s causing these islands numbers to swell again.
COVID death rate in the UK is now LESS than the flu. Let that sink in. The flu is more deadly than COVID now. Yet we are still subject to mask mandates, all the Travel Time nonsense, exit testing, etc. The reason we are still subject to all these measures isn’t due to a health risk. It’s political. How many Caymanians are employed in “COVID measure” jobs? Wake up people and get angry at these restrictions!!!!
Over-employment has long been an issue in Cayman, in the Civil Service in particular.
Rubbish – please cite your source if you did not simply fabricate your statistics.
Will the FT do? I can provide the original papers and lots of other references too.
https://www.ft.com/content/e26c93a0-90e7-4dec-a796-3e25e94bc59b
UK hits record COVID-19 levels; nearly 5 million infected
https://apnews.com/article/covid-boris-johnson-health-england-europe-21439a7dc032c6da225060844721af5a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
And life is back to normal and there is hardly anyone in ICU with Covid in a nation of 69m.
25% of hospitalized Covid patients in Cayman are fully vaccinated
It was just reported here that two of the three were vaccinated.
What are you talking about? 1109 Covid deaths last week, more than 16,000 new admissions in hospital? Is that ‘back to normal’ for you?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51768274
Weekly death rates at 10% of the daily death rates in Jan 2021.
The figures are those dying within 28 days of a positive test, not deaths from covid. Typically 30% or so of the number are deaths from other causes, but that percentages goes up significantly when there is high background case prevalence.
The same for hospital admissions, but more so, when one takes out background prevalence identified on admission testing and panicking parents, the true covid figure is far lower. Don’t use admissions as a metric, use ICU covid admissions it is far more meaningful figure. For the whole UK there are only 329 covid patients on ventilators, out of 69 million.
Unbelievable in Shanghai.
Shanghai’s caseload alone breaks the all-time high for all of mainland China (13,146 new cases on Sunday)!
Vaccines work.
As a treatment, yes. Not as a vaccine (in the strictest sense).
I am Caymanian and very concerned that the current government is no longer taking Covid seriously. If they have told the HSA not to administer the second booster because of politics or cost or whatever, would they please allow some of the private health care clinics to import the vaccine and administer it. I know that there are many of us who would gladly scrape together the money somehow in order to get the second booster and decrease our chances of getting seriously ill.
I was told that many workers and visitors have stopped wearing masks in the main government building despite the policy to do so and no ome is enforcing it.
That is not true. We are still required to wear masks whilst in the government building (moving around). Masks are not worn if eating or working quietly by your desks.
Every death is a tragedy and my sympathies go out to the family of this most recent Covid victim.
Hopefully government will do what it can to prevent Covid from inflicting more pain and suffering in our community. There is a new Covid BA.2 wave in England and in Scotland where hospitalisations are now the highest ever. That will certainly happen here in the coming weeks. Will government look after our people by allowing the vulnerable the second booster or have they decided to ignore Covid and let people get sick and some die?
This week in Covid news
Mainland China reports 9,875 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record. Shanghai accounts for 64% of new cases.
U.S. COVID update: Cases rise for 4th day this week
– New cases: 33,403
– Average: 27,071 (+111)
– States reporting: 41/50
– In hospital: 14,528 (-130)
– In ICU: 2,322 (-58)
– New deaths: 642
– Average: 667 (-33)
South Korea reports 280,273 new coronavirus cases and 360 new deaths
Shanghai reports 6,311 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record
Global COVID update:
– New cases: 1,518,575
– Average: 1,483,909 (-27,998)
– Dominant: BA.2
– New deaths: 5,182
– Average: 4,823 (-62)
@9:49:
Yup. And similar stats will be coming to Cayman neighbourhoods all too soon.
You mean extremely low levels of deaths among the vaccinated population? Yes, that is what life in 2022 and beyond will be like going forward.
Peter predicts the future? Got any stock tips?
Chinese army sending more than 2,000 medical personnel to Shanghai as COVID outbreak continues to worsen
looks like their vaccine isn’t that good then. Luckily we have Pfizer.
This is rubbish – severe illness and hospitalisations are much lower than before the vaccines were rolled out.
DEFINITELY!
PACT don’t care about our elderly and neither do the people of Cayman except for their relatives.
I saw a man in a restaurant tonight digging out his nose. The restaurant doesn’t have any sanitizing spray or lotion outside of the restaurant. Just one tiny bottle inside that everyone would have to touch. This is why Covid is on the rise and people are dying.
I heard that many workers in the GAB stopped wearing masks.
Good for them
Why is it good for them?
Is it good that they may place other employees or visitors in danger?
Zzzz
Rise in infection due to return of cruise ships passengers with no testing before embarking? No?
CDC estimates that BA.2 accounts for 72% of daily coronavirus cases in the U.S., up from 55% last week.
Soon come.
Unmask our children. Now.
Release the second booster! Oh wait – some political hack has to profit for anything to get done by this government.
BTW – is that big lump under the carpet the ‘Soilgate’ investigation???
I agree. Where is the 2nd booster?!?
I got mine.
Not sure why they havent authorized a second booster to those that want. The UK has for certain groups, and this week the US has for those over 50.
Surely there is an excess vaccine supply (with a limited shelf life) and only a trickle of people a week are now getting jabbed.
Say something Silent Wayne and/or Sabrina — what is the plan either way?
rip
said it before… no-one who is relatively healthy, under 70, who is vaxxed, will die from covid.
get vaxxed and boostered!
If you had Covid already like at least 2/3 of Cayman (particularly Omicron), no benefit to getting “vaxxed and boosted”.
@5:57:
You declare that 2/3 of the population has had Covid?
The end of March official Covid status report from the C.I. Government gives total Covid cases as 20,833. When you figure that against the population figure they use for their stats which is 69,350, you arrive at 30.04% or less than ONE THIRD of the population. Outside of the official figures there is only speculation and ASSumptions as to case numbers. According to verifiable reports, you overstated the number of cases here by a factor of over 2x. How did you arrive at that figure?
Boy you fool.
It’s obvious that the real case numbers are 2x higher (at a minimum) than reported cases. Many cases are extremely mild or result in no symptoms. Many people choose not to report positive tests for fear of being held captive by the government.
Just like clockwork. No matter how many times you type this, it simply isn’t true. Its bullshit.
The local stats have remained quite consistent for months: 75% to 80% of the the Covid hospitalisations are non-vaxed persons. It would be interesting for the CIG to report stats for hospitalisations among the properly boosted vs the twice-vaxed. The twice-vaxed hospitalisations should rise as the time window for booster vax passes. According to global stats there is little doubt that the hospitalisation/morbidity rate stats for the properly boosted will be well lower that those of the twice-vaxed.
Wrong again. Face the facts.
generally ..it is very true and 100% true in cayman.
Here’s for Mr. no one under 70 is dying that is double vaxxed. . https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/coronavirus/friends-and-family-left-shocked-by-death-of-double-vaccinated-23yearold-with-no-underlying-medical-conditions/news-story/03bafe97d6855b4a0b7e0297b7552f83