Confirmed COVID cases fall by another 44%
(CNS): The Public Health Department has reported that the number of newly detected cases of COVID-19 in Cayman decreased by 44% last week to 148 compared to 265 in the previous seven days. Between 14 and 20 August testing also fell by 13%. However, patients being treated for COVID-19 in hospital last week remained at 16, including seven new admissions.
“The number of hospital admissions remains low and no increase in deaths is registered,” the PHD said in relation to the most recent figures, stating that this had paved the way for the repeal of COVID-related regulations.
Over 30,000 people in Cayman have had COVID-19 since the pandemic began in March 2020 and 29 people died due to complications, 83% of them unvaccinated. In total, over 377 people have been admitted to hospital with COVID, half of which were at least partially vaccinated.
While over 95% of the population aged five and over has had at least one shot of a vaccine, over 60% of the population has not been boosted.
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Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to calculate that people here are still getting covid, but now a whole lot less are reporting.
People are not necessarily getting covid, they have LFT’s and PCR’s that are returning positive tests. It is commonly accepted that these tests can not only return correct positive findings for covid-19, but also false positives, or positives for colds, flu, regular coronaviruses, lemon juice, hot sauce and other inputs….
Now do age-adjusted per capita all-cause mortality among the vaccinated and unvaccinated since 2021. You’d be surprised by the numbers…
4 new hospital admissions for covid. Time to move on.
Time to stop keeping stats and move on. This no longer news worthy.
So if we have so many more cases right now as compared to middle of our lockdown…. What good did lockdown ever do?…what was the point?
Should we do another lockdown?
@9:16 – ha you funny, another lockdown
Why are we one of the only places with this in the news?
Move on!
We must reinstall travel cayman and masks immediately. We may have 44% drop but Covid is real people… there are countries with populations of 100m plus with low vaccination rates and 4 new cases elsewhere. COVID’s not over. Blame the cabal for their profiteering. Also the vaccine has a microchip. 😜
9.21pm Troll!.
And the world is flat!!!
I just need to know what percentage of those currently hospitalized are vaccinated?
Basically all
You can assume all or at least the majority as if they were not, it would’ve been headline news to push the shots
That’s irrelevant. You will always have more of the hospitalized being vaccinated when most of the island are vaccinated. If there are ten people in hospital, and 5 are vaccinated and 5 unvaccinated as an example, that shows you the vaccine massively works and reduces your chance of being hospitalized vs being unvaccinated.
Because no one is reporting
It is pointless to refer to cases anymore as only some infected individuals test, and almost all who self-test dont report it (why would anyone?).
Hospital admissions (for COVID) is really the only relevant barometer.
(And a lot more than “30,000” people in Cayman had COVID).
Covid who?
What was the average hospitalizations at the peck of covid here? About the same no? People just are reporting the cases. They go to the hospital when they get very sick just like before.
The only stat that matters at this time. Two years ago it was a different story and reporting all statistics helped save lives.
“Newly Detected” cases. nudge nudge wink wink
Pretty easy to not find something if you don’t look.
How many of these 7 “new admissions” were admissions that happened to test positive for covid on admission and how many were admitted for covid? The difference is very important as the raw admissions data set over-inflates and misrepresents the impact of covid in the community.
My guess is most (if not all) of those 7 were admitted WITH Covid not FOR Covid. Big difference. Hospitalization needed for other health issue but just happened to be positive on admission screening.