Latest COVID strain not a danger to public health
(CNS): The new COVID variant, NB.1.8.1, does not pose any serious threat to public health, according to Chief Medical Officer Dr Nick Gent. Nevertheless, local health officials are monitoring the new strain, which has been in the news around the world since 23 May, when the World Health Organization designated it a “variant under monitoring”.
“The most important message to get out to our community is that, at this time, the ministry is not concerned about the impact of this variant,” Dr Gent said in a release from the Public Health Department.
“Given the transient nature of our community, it is highly likely that this variant will arrive in Cayman. However, there are no reports that illness caused by this new variant is more severe than other strains. I also note that currently approved COVID-19 vaccines are expected to remain effective to this variant against symptomatic and severe disease,” he added.
The Cayman Islands is also set to benefit from substantial levels of hybrid immunity, due to the high uptake in vaccination and boosters, as well as prior COVID infection, which will help provide protection against severe disease.
“The HSA remains both vigilant and prepared to deal with the management of illness caused by COVID,” Medical Officer of Health Dr Samuel Williams-Rodriguez said. “The Public Health Department is working with the ministry to secure the now seasonal COVID-19 vaccines, and we will be informing the public when those become available via our vaccination clinics.”
The public is reminded that practising good hygiene, such as regularly washing hands, covering mouth and nose when ill or when caring for someone who is ill, and staying up to date with seasonal COVID vaccinations, remains the best way to protect themselves from the virus.
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Why is this nonsense still in the news and morons still buying LFTs? Days off work??
Meanwhile in Jamaica, a health advisory on exposure to this week’s Saharan Dust:
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20250602/health-ministry-issues-another-warning-fresh-wave-saharan-dust-affects-jamaica#google_vignette
I guess it all depends how you define ‘danger’? A UK headline today referring to Thailand reads ‘Brit tourists told to wear masks and get Covid jabs as cases skyrocket in holiday hotspot”
What about measles?.
Magic Spray.
Oh the humanity…
Had the ‘mandatory’ 2 initial vaccines. Had Covid 3 times since over the last 5 years. 1st time (within months of the vaccine) was the worst. Other two times was just like a bad flu. No more vaccines for me.
Repelling and/or surviving the latest Covid strain is the latest antibody booster plan for now. It works until Covid mutates into a new form that the body’s immune system can’t easily recognize anymore. Each further mutation evolving the virus further from the original Wuhan strain of late 2019 from which the vaccines were derived.
My experience was the opposite. When I was vaccinated, the first 2 bouts of covid I got were manageable. I decided not to get boosters because of that. However, the third time I got covid was a couple years after my 2-dose (Pfizer) vaccination, and it was the worst “flu” of my life, and long covid has been a struggle ever since, literally years later.
I don’t say this to try to invalidate your experience, just to provide differing anecdotal evidence and another point of view.
The most obedient society is the world. Don’t take it as a compliment. .
This post is so stupid. Google North Korea and Saudi Arabia.
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“Vaccines are EXPECTED to remain effective.” They never were.
Yes, because after the vaccine the hospitals will still filled to the brim. You must have been educated by a squirrel.
By the CMO’s own admission, they are “expected” to be effective. Why didn’t he say they “are” still effective? The squirrel that educated me surely taught me how to comprehend English literature. Let me not work you up too much, as we now know, lots of hearts randomly stop beating these days.
Lol. Touché.
Just like the flu vaccine, it is expected to be effective but saying absolutes with different strains popping up isn’t a thing.
My point exactly. No one can give an absolute answer. It’s up in the air.
So is life you kitt.
Precisely why I took my chances with not getting the jab. Worked out for me and many others. Have a nice life with all the side effects. What is really griping part is that you probably won’t get to hear me say ‘I told you so.”
Leave us alone!
Who are you talking to? Bodily autonomy is the fundamental right to make decisions about one’s own body.
Absolutely. If you want to get jabbed up, go for it. It is your right, just as it is the right of others to refuse.
Let’s keep the ground level and fair.
Just like the people forced to take the vaccine or leave without renewing their cayman visa.
You should sue, but wait, you can’t as you gave away that right when you signed up for the jab. Things that make you go hmmm.