COVID-19 weekly report changing to reflect more diseases
(CNS): The weekly COVID-19 report covering the third week of May, which was released Thursday morning, will be the last report dealing with the coronavirus pandemic alone. Given the emerging global diseases like monkeypox, next week it will become a newsletter that covers all communicable and non-communicable diseases impacting the community. This last COVID-19 report shows the first drop in positive cases in over a week since an uptick began in March.
However, the latest figures for this week show that the seven-day rolling average is still over a hundred. Almost 200 more positive cases were reported on Monday and Tuesday and there are still more than 1,700 people in isolation as a result of SARS-CoV-2.
Between 15 and 21 May, 833 new cases of COVID-19 were reported to Public Health. This was a drop from the previous week of 62, although test numbers increased by more than 100 to 2,691, with a positivity rate of 31%.
During the week 15 people were in the hospital, 60% of whom had been vaccinated, including 20% who had received boosters. Only one new patient was admitted as a result of COVID but four other patients who came to the hospital for unrelated issues and were not ill from the virus tested positive through the hospital screening.
Since March 2020, 284 COVID-19 patients have been hospitalised and the virus played a part in the death of 28 people in the Cayman Islands since the pandemic reached these shores. To date, more than 25,500 cases of coronavirus have been reported here. But a high vaccination rate, with over 94% of the population aged over five years old having had at least one dose, kept hospital admissions low during the current wave of cases.
But officials are phasing out the weekly COVID-19 situation report as the country moves on from the pandemic. Instead a weekly letter will outline new public health challenges and risks, such as monkeypox, as well as the situation relating to COVID-19.
“It is vital that we continue to strengthen our local surveillance system and preparedness status while maintaining prevention measures, such as frequent handwashing and mask-wearing inside public spaces, which offer protection for more than just COVID-19,” officials said.
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maintaining prevention measures, such as frequent handwashing and mask-wearing inside public spaces, which offer protection for more than just COVID-19,” officials said.
So we are now issuing monkey pox and other, yet to be identified diseases as justification for maintaining the Covid regulations and government supervision regime! Monkey pox isn’t even an aerosol transmitted disease for heavens sake. How can it possibly be affected by mask wearing. What next – we are going to have compulsory handashing before entering buildings now? These guys just can’t let go of the idea that they can control the public, can they.
@3:16:
You are misinformed as to the effectiveness of mask wearing relative to Monkeypox. You do not differentiate between transmission via aerosol means and respiratory droplet transmission. There is a vast difference between droplets and aerosols. Monkeypox is quite transmissible via respiratory droplets traveling through the air: hence, the use of masks as part of the protocol in dealing with Monkeypox. Close contact with a person infected with Monkey Pox can result in inhalation of respiratory droplets emitted by the infected person. In regard to hand washing, the CDC issued a Level 2 travel health notice noting that Monkeypox cases have been reported in Europe, North America and Australia: The CDC advises travelers to wash their hands often with soap and water or use hand sanitizer, as well as keep their hands away from their face. I should think that what is good advice to travelers is good advice to the Cayman Islands in general since we host a great number of travelers.
Speaking to government “control” of the people: you submit to government “control” every time you drive on the left side of the road rather then the right, put a stamp on a letter, wait in the immigration line when you arrive in the islands, stop at a red light, pay duty for imported goods, to name but a few of the countless ways you might submit to the power of government every day of your life. The Constitution gives the government extraordinary power to deal as they see fit with a public health crisis. So cry me a river.
OMG stop the travel restrictions NOW. Just because you idiots in CIG can’t manage to let go of travel time employees we still have to deal with them. Get real and move on.
Vote Wayne and his cronies out – spineless and useless.
It is just so asinine.
CNS. Can you please provide a link to the latest weekly report? I could bot find it at gov.ky
CNS: So sorry, I forgot to add the link (which I’ve done now). They are all in the CNS Library.
Had to laugh. CIG wants us to trust their data. Sheesh, look at the graph they published – can’t even get the colors on the legend and the graph to match. Cayman education at its best.
That is a point. If CIG can’t get the legend on a graph the right colour, who do they expect to trust them? Quite pathetic.
Can we please take the T out of PAC because transparency is definitely not happening? This is the worst government ever but people aren’t willing to admit they made a mistake voting for them. At least PPM weren’t afraid to hold press conferences and could answer questions.
Why continue to publicize facts and let the electorate make their own decisions? Let’s bury the data, and distract everyone about what is happening. But hey, I don’t actually trust the CIG to really report accurate data, shoot, they can’t even count.
“But officials are phasing out the weekly COVID-19 situation report as the country moves on from the pandemic.”
GREAT! When can we drop these mask mandates and pre-travel COVID testing requirements?
Based on what I’m seeing around the islands, the public is definitely ready to move on!
The general public is, but not the government departments responsible for the various Covid mandates.
This time in 2023 we will still be applying to Travel Cayman for their hallowed permission to fly in, rigmarole with proving you are vaccinated to get on an aircraft and pre flight testing.
Cayman will struggle for the foreseeable future.
How about we phase out all restrictions. No one gives a damn and we may st all focus on protecting ourselves from covid as well as the dangerous roads.
Zika, Chikungunya, and Dengue should be on our radar forever too.
Pointless restrictions; masking of school children; cruise shippers exempt; residents treated worse than travellers and exit testing protocols which make no F sense at all.
Mandatory quarantine for arriving unvaccinated caymanians / residents – when EVERYONE is capable of transmitting / catching the virus.
All about money, not about health.
Vote them all out next election – it really can’t come soon enough!
Can’t wait to hear from Long Monkeypox guy
Can’t wait to hear from Sabrina about Long Covid. Ohhh… yeah…that’s right… it doesn’t exist as long as you don’t mention it.
Right on cue.
It is tragic Long Covid Guy gets so worked up about a false premise.
Citations needed
No they aren’t.
Burden of proof lies with you.
The simple way forward is to Google “Long Covid”. The over 6,000,000,000 search returns should keep everyone busy for a while. Use “Past Week” in the search tools drop down menu Time option to narrow reports to a smaller number and more contemporaneous results.
In the end, only the ignorant will not plainly see that our Clown Car government is ignoring reality. But the issue will not go away.Heither will we. We might be few in number right now, but growing. We are planning to question them about Long Covid at their public meetings in the future if they do not come clean to the public before then.
The Long Covid Challenge: We challenge people reading this to confront officials with questions about Long Covid in the Cayman Islands. Come back to CNS and share the answers you receive.
Your silly statement is hardly worthy of a response but, in the spirit of dispelling your benighted offering, let’s go:
Long Covid (also know as post Covid sequelae, Chronic Covid, Post Covid Condition, Post Covid Syndrome, Long Haul Covid, among other names) is now recognised by many governments, global entities, and researchers.
USA CDC: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines Long Covid as the occurrence of new, returning, or ongoing health problems four or more weeks after an initial infection with SARS-CoV-2 virus. It is also known by other names, including post-acute COVID, post-COVID conditions, and chronic COVID. The CDC declares that symptoms of long COVID vary from person to person. They may include fatigue, cognitive impairment (or “brain fog”), muscle or joint pain, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, sleep difficulties, and mood changes Long COVID can affect multiple organ systems and cause tissue damage.
UK: The UK has long ago allocated many millions in funds to address Long Covid, including establishing specialist clinics all over the UK.
THE US GOVERNMENT: The U.S. General Acccounting Office (GAO), in speaking of Long Covid’s economic impacts asserts that Long Covid can have serious consequences, The GAO says that some individuals have reported a need to adjust their work hours or stop working altogether due to chronic fatigue or cognitive impairment. On one of their online info pages the GAO relates much more about Long Covid: One study of nearly 4,000 Long Covid patients found that 45 percent reduced their work hours. For some, the change in job status can affect health insurance, which can further complicate treatment options. Individuals have also said their symptoms interfere with childcare, exercise, and social activities. This disruption of their daily lives can cause mental health issues. Another study used the electronic health records of more than 200,000 COVID-19 survivors and found that within 6 months following initial infection, one-third experienced neurological or psychological symptoms such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and psychosis.
W.H.O: The World Health Organization has developed a clinical case definition of post COVID-19 condition and further descriptives to guide the public. The WHO informs us that Post COVID-19 condition occurs in individuals with a history of probable or confirmed SARS CoV-2 infection, usually 3 months from the onset of COVID-19 with symptoms and that last for at least 2 months and cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis. Common symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, cognitive dysfunction but also others and generally have an impact on everyday functioning. Symptoms may be new onset following initial recovery from an acute COVID-19 episode or persist from the initial illness. Symptoms may also fluctuate or relapse over time.
CAYMAN ISLANDS GOVERNMENT: Crickets.
The questions for you are:
Do you or do you not recognise Long Covid as a real affliicton and is accepted as such by experts globally?
Do you or do you not concede that statistics borne out by credible research indicate that it is almost statistically impossible that the Cayman Islands does not have Post Covid cases?
What has our government done to address Long Covid in the Cayman Islands?
Do have answers or do will you just continue to spew tripe and cast shade against the reality of Long Covid and thus excuse the breathtaking irresponsibility of the Panton-PACTless Clown Car?
Ahh – but maybe monkey pox is in fact a Long Covid side effect 😉