COVID-19 case numbers not reflecting reality
(CNS): Public Health officials will no longer be releasing the active case numbers or daily test results for COVID-19 as they say testing has drastically decreased over the last few weeks and is not reflecting the reality of transmission. “The daily estimate of active cases no longer provides a true representation of how COVID-19 is currently being transmitted within the community,” officials said in a release issued Monday evening.
Public Health said they will continue to provide an overall seven-day rolling average of positives and current hospitalisations each day and will still publish the detailed synopsis in the weekly Public Health Spotlight.
As of Monday, 1 August, the seven-day rolling average for official tests was 44 but there were nine COVID-positive patients in the hospital, eight of whom were vaccinated with two doses.
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How am I supposed to obsess over covid for the rest of my life if I don’t have a daily report of cases?
No worries. Monkeypox soon come.
The United States declared monkeypox a public health emergency today.
So, the geniuses just realised that the COVID testing numbers don’t reflect reality? Smh I think that most anyone who was paying attention came to that realisation long ago!
We — the residents of these fair islands — have been on our own for months. We will have to choose our own course, because the government appears more interested in commerce than safety and health. Okeydokeyfinethen. We know where we stand.
SARS-Cov-2 is usually contagious for up to 2 weeks. Monkeypox is contagious for 4-10 weeks. I don’t think anyone has come close to grasping the magnitude of what is about to happen.
Also, before the homophobes chime in, children are being infected.
Wonderful move. Now stop all together.
Cool. Lets close Travel Cayman.
Yes totally agree. Why do I have to get a travel declaration to fly here when cruise passengers are now arriving without any testing ?
Yeah – the daily stats should list how many people are employed by Travel Cayman as well. Given the rationale for keeping them open after removing entry tests and quarantine for most people was supervising those in isolation, putting isolation on the honour system makes Travel Caymans staff redundant. With 44 declared positive tests, who the hell are they supervising? What do they do all day?
I know someone coming who although vaccinated does not have the “approved” vaccine. they will have to quarantine 7 days.
I will expect twice daily phone calls from Travel Cayman to ask him how he is feeling, and a daily visit by at least two Travel Cayman staff to make sure he is at home.
Travel Cayman has nothing to do with the Publuc Health dept.
PACT should try to make sense of their own conflicting policy decisions: signal the end of Travel Cayman by setting the closure date, and formally repeal the Emergency Health Orders. Do it today.
How about we don’t, since Covid is still highly active globally with Monkeypox soon to arrive?
So how do they plan to track COVID? Or will it, like cancer in our community, become an undocumented known unknown?
Look, Jack. We wont everyone to forget about Covid. Its old news and bad for business.
Covid Registry
They will track hospitalization. That’s it.
Fair enough. (And serves as a metric that can also be tracked backwards.) But they need to say that.
The vaccine is no longer as effective in preventing transmission but that does not mean it isn’t keeping people out of the hospital. Our numbers in hospital are again starting to decrease. Many people are getting the infection and are either asymptomatic or have minor symptoms similar to a cold.
The virus has changed drastically since Omicron arrived. It is no longer able to replicate in the lung tissue which was causing the lethality of the infection to be quite high compared to the flu.
Covid will continue to be around forever and we cannot be seriously concerned about it to the point that it affects our businesses and daily lives. We have successfully lived with it since dropping the restrictions.
I definitely agree that hospitalizations should be monitored for unusual spikes, people should still get vaccinated and if sick, should test and isolate if positive. However, I don’t believe we should be mass testing healthy people, spraying down everything with bleach and be afraid that Covid will turn the land into a zombie filled hellscape. More common sense and less scaremongering is what is needed.
Covid is bad for business and these masks are a “Scarlet Letter” that makes people feel uncomfortable.
We should ignore news from abroad on Covid, Monkeypox, and Polio. It’s not as if people from countries where these health dangers are spreading are coming and going daily.
If we act as if all is good, it will be. Sea, sunshine and positivity trump any disease!
You were doing ok until you said people should still get vaccinated…nope. It doesn’t stop transmission or infection, and anyone remotely healthy doesn’t need it. It never saved granny.
Like the flu shots, if you want to go for it and it’s recommended for vulnerable people…but anyone else can live life free of stress and worry about covid as they would the flu.
The vaccine may not be stopping infections and transmission, but it still helps the individual by easing potential symptoms or contracting long covid. Staying unvaccinated is still a risk as we still don’t fully understand the long term effects of becoming sick with covid.
The President of The United States is fully vaccinated, with all boosters and elite medical care and has Covid again. This time, with a “loose cough”.
Everyone is at risk for infections and reinfections, but we don’t talk about that or Long Covid.
Bad for business and profits.