Over 1,000 vaccinated in first day
(CNS): Fears that Caymanians would be reluctant to take the COVID-19 vaccine may have been unfounded, as people queued up at the hospital flu clinic on Friday to get the shot. The over 70s, healthcare workers and those working with travellers made up the majority of the 1,076 people who received the jab between Thursday morning and Friday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the vaccine will be on its way to the Sister Islands this weekend. Residents on Cayman Brac in the first category will be able to access the jabs at the flu clinic inside the Aston Civic Rutty Centre Medical Wing between 9:00am and 4:00pm from Sunday, 10 January, to Tuesday, 12 January. Vaccinations will be available at the Little Cayman Clinic on Wednesday, 13 January, from 10:00am to 1:00pm.
Those receiving the vaccine must wear a face-mask, present a government photo ID and sign the COVID-19 vaccine consent form. No appointment necessary. Residents of the Sister Islands with questions should call 925-1190.
On Friday there were no new positive tests among travellers in the daily results, the first time since before Christmas that a full batch of samples was all negative. There are still 46 active cases among the 1,193 people currently in quarantine and home isolation, with eleven of those suffering from symptoms of the virus.
Cayman has recorded 359 positive cases to date having carried out over 62,000 tests.
Category: Health, Medical Health
Apparently, the Bahamas want to ‘procure’ Covid vaccines from Cayman because we got them from the UK.
What part of British Territory and Independence do they not get?
Jamaica will be demanding these next as reparations for Colonial misdeeds, like giving them a system of government, infrastructure, judiciary, education system, civil service etc.
Getting theirs from China who built them a new hospital. I hope they have the money to pay them back.
The Chinese have a VERY generous commission system , (well known to the FCO), which means that the Jamaican beneficiaries of their largesse can easily afford any number of vaccines.
They can buy their own vaccines, they are also a tax haven!
Just read this in the Miami herald. Shocking they’d expect us to give them vaccines before our own population is vaccinated.
Just read what..?
This doctor from FL was according to his wife very happy to get this.
https://humansarefree.com/2021/01/very-healthy-56-year-old-miami-obstetrician-died-after-taking-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine.html
Fact checkers encouraged and welcome.
Safety for people first.
They now say One in millions? Dont’ think so. Clearly, the fact that he was a specialist doctor, and knew trouble when he saw it, he was able to get further medical. The ordinary Joe turning up at his doctors “practice”, would be sent home with various antibiotics, not for him blood tests and further investigations. The GP and other medical “experts” would simply shrug off the vaccine connection, “just one of those things”, “coincidence”, would be the excuse.
The idea was that immune system gets instructed to attack COVID virus once it recognizes it. I doubt that they didn’t expect that it could attack body’s own cells and organs. Now they know it can, though they will continue denying it..
Average Joe won’t go to a doctor when he sees pinpoint rash on his body. Though average doctor is qualified to immediately recognize it as a sign of serious health issue.
It can attack other types of cells, not necessarily platelets only.
Time will tell how often this might happen if deaths of healthy people soon after vaccinations is properly reported.
17 million vaccinations, one confirmed death.
Hence one in millions.
5:51pm. You mean one in 1n million
One don’t have to be a doctor or a scientist to realize that once immune system is programmed to “attack” a specific invader, covid19, who would guarantee that it won’t be destroying something else?
It quite effectively completely destroyed this doctor’s platelets in just 3 days after his vaccination and continued aggressively destroying all donated platelets. Quite an effective killing mechanism is created that can’t be stopped or deactivated.
That is why approving the vaccine as experimental was a mistake.
I wonder where all the downvotes are originating from? Same place perhaps?
Kudos to CNS.
Another person was run over by a car only one week after getting vaccinated conclusively proving vaccinations are dangerous.
Lol, now youre sounding like how CDC counted Covid deaths; decapitated from motorcycle accident but died of Covid.
“You only hear about the one car crash, not about the millions of other people who drove to work fine.”
He died 16days after the jab, he had zero platelets just 3days after. It was built to target he structure of certain cells (covid19), it could be that it targets the wrong cells in some people.
4:37 pm: This is very sad. Condolences to his family.
The CDC and other agencies are investigating and they will no doubt be offering more information on this.
The privileged few around here will all ways get taken care of first! So sssh ya mouths and sign ya form and get ya medicine especially that consent forms because we will not tolerate or accept no responsibility for any outcomes good or bad! Alden MUST open by March come hell or high water! virus or no virus !
It is not clear to me whether under the new regulations a person living in Cayman could game the system by getting a negative Covid test from our own GT hospital on Friday then flying to Miami for a bit of weekend shopping, partying and generally getting infected, and then fly back to Cayman on Sunday using the locally issued negative test as proof that they did not get infected in Miami? Hopefully not but perhaps it needs to be explicitly clarified that the negative test needs to come from the a test facility at the point of departure. Perhaps it also needs to be clarified that for people being outside of Cayman for less than 72 hours the test needs to be one of the new day of departure tests that are available at or near Miami airport
Surely they would have to do the standard 14 days quarantine when arriving back, same as any other traveler arriving from abroad, then a negative test in 14 days time and then have the bracelet released. Utterly pathetic that caymanians are hoping to do a weekend shopping in Miami any time soon anyway,,, complete,y unnecessary and risky. Stay on the island until everyone has been vaccinated (both jabs with a 3 week time frame after second jab when it means it is effective) and the world pandemic especially us and uk is not as bad.
If you were infected at the weekend, the test taken prior to departure from Miami or even in Cayman airport on your return likely wouldn’t yet show up in a covid test on your return. But you’d have to quarantine – for now at least – anyway.
But people could be infectious posing a risk to airport staff, border control officers and taxi drivers.
Yes, they can.
Does anyone know the agreed Cayman timeframe for the second jab? Are we dong 3 weeks after first jab here or stretching to 12 weeks like in the UK so we get as much of the population as possible ‘first jabbed’ before administering people’s second jabs?
3 weeks
In press briefing, they said not following UK and will be doing doses 3 weeks apart.
Pfizer’s is 19-23 days whether Cayman agrees or not.
Phfuk Pfizer. Big Pharma criminals.
The fellow that innoculated me moved the needle around once it was in may arm and it was quite painful as I believe the needle hit the bone.It is still painful today especially if I raise my arm in the air. I have little flesh on my arm and I noticed on the Miami networks many of the nurses pulled the flesh up from the arm before the injection, presumably to avoid the problem I had.
Still not more painful than having to lose my ability to taste freshly made patties for a whole week – casualties aside.
That’s what happens with nurses who aren’t properly trained.
Snowflake
According to the Compass 310 people recd their vaccination on Thursday, although none were scheduled apart from a few politicians and senior medical staff whose innoculations were televised live Thursday morning..Who were these priviledged people?.
Lodge
Jeez, calm down…
most hospital staff were given the chance if they wanted to get vaccinated.
HSA hospital staff – those who looked after covid patients. you know the ones who were risking their wellbeing while you were at home during lockdown.
2.31pm How many Covid patients were hospitalised was it 4 or 5?.Did it need 300 staff to look after them?.Why was this not on the official vaccination schedule?.
I have no problem with hospital staff being vaccinated first. However I don’t think staff from medical spas and wellness centres should be in the first stage. There should be more transparency.
HSA Staff does not just consist of doctors and nurses. You need more than that to run a hospital. It’s the cleaners, the maintenance workers, security, receptionists..etc. While these groups do not directly care for patients, they do come into contact with people who visit the hospital. Thus, it’s best to give them vaccinations to protect them from the virus. Which in turn reduces the risk of an outbreak among hospital workers.
What level of intellect would click the “angry” button for an article giving such good news as this? Even if you’ve been misled by conspiracy theorists to believe that you should not take the vaccine, why would you not be happy that everyone else but you has been vaccinated, thus making you safer while enabling the country (and the world) to get back to work? Get on board with the goal, even if not the means to that goal! For all our sakes including your own, bite your tongue and do not discourage others from doing the right thing, even if you’re too chicken to take the jab yourself. This is science, not politics or religion.
Just because people have different views on the vaccine it does not mean they are conspiracy theorists. The vaccine is most certainly controversial at any rate. Developed in record time and indemnities issued left right and centre to the big pharma. One question that has to be asked is; Is this a political solution or a scientific one? There is also an appreciable split of opinion in the medical community and academics. People have the right to be concerned. Politicians live streaming themselves to ‘assure’ it is safe is a purely political gesture. These people are not medical experts.
Ah the I’m not anti-vax but poster has arrived
Yep, like Iran, they are not anti-vax, but say no to a western vaccination
6:06 If the POLITICIANS did not take the vaccine first i am sure you would have played the other side of the record!
Not really
No, this is government’s version of science. There is a difference.
This is great but I’d love to know who is monitoring this. According to an interview in the compass, the very young part-time receptionist of a wellness studio offering acupuncture and Pilates was vaccinated yesterday. Before senior citizens and actual healthcare workers.
1:51 pm: All the senior citizens who turned up were vaccinated. No one was turned away.
Not all senior citizens were in category to be vaccinated in tbis round!
And they work with the public so why not?
Lots of people work with the public that will not be vaccinated for many months. The vaccine is in short supply. It should only go to actual healthcare workers at this point. They haven’t even started vaccinating people in their sixties yet.
Its not in short supply. more coming, but we have to use what we have first
The vaccine is definitely in short supply. You need to look at what is going on in the rest of the world. Every country is trying to get their hands on vaccines and the UK has even resorted to only giving one jab and delaying the second jab. They aren’t going to be sending enough to vaccinate everyone anytime soon.
You have no idea what, if any, health reasons she may have for getting the vaccine. She may have an immune issue, live with someone who does or have another health problem and frankly it’s none of your business.
why such a long needle ? 😮
12:43 pm: I had absolutely no problem with the needle. It went seamlessly and painlessly.
Because size matters..
I had the shot on Friday. The process was very well organized and I think HSA should be proud of how they are handling the whole thing!
I would be very interested to know what % of the population was vaccinated, because I think we are right up there with the leading countries! I think a vote of thanks should also go to the UK for providing the vaccine for free.
Again well done HSA, just waiting for my second jab.
It wasn’t free, it was funded by UK taxpayers who weren’t consulted about it. Meanwhile we have a raging pandemic and currently over 1000 deaths per day. Vaccine now limited to one dose so we can give as many people as possible at least some protection. Our economy is in ruins, we are now in our third lockdown with schools closed and only essential shops and services operating. But let’s get Cayman’s tourism industry re-started!
Can understand your little rant, but remind you that the Mother country has responsibilities towards her children.
Bermuda is buying its own vaccines…
They got the same # of free vaccines as we did & theirs also arrived last week.
Dear Bitter Brit,
You have no one to blame but your arrogant, racist, anti-foreigner, pro-Brexit, glad handing, war mongering conservative government led by his majesty Mr BJ.
The fact that Cayman and other OTs ran circles around the UK and listened to their public health and science experts instead of playing politics means we locked down hard and early instead of playing footsie with disaster.
Your attitude is why I support Caymanians who fear people like yourself who hate seeing others succeed getting access to their Parliament.
Go home and make Britain better. Don’t be angry because we are standing soundly on our two feet and not making a mockery of
Fighting this pandemic.
Is that so? I would never have thought that.
To bark at Elephant? this pug must be a real strong mug!
But you are not standing on your own feet you are a parasite on the UK and their limited supplies. If you want vaccines, go and buy your own
11.23am Spoken like a true born Caymanian. I wonder if like so many of your countrymen you are two faced and have taken up the offer of a full British passport, or whether your children are taking advantage of a U.K.University education subsidised by the British taxpayer?. The comment was tongue in cheek – a bit beyond your intellect. As for access to your “Parliament” do you not see any irony in the thousands of comments on CNS from your very own descrying the rampant corruption and double standards of your “Members of Parliament”?.
If “BJ” hadn’t pulled out of the EU vaccine procurement process (no doubt you whined about that at the time too) and gone ahead and ordered 100m+ shots early we’d still be waiting for our first shots 6 months from now.
Standing on our own feet? LOL. So you’ll be taking the Cayman vaccine will you?
In reply to 2:06 pm
Just out of interest, i started work and started paying taxes as soon as i could. I also paid into NHS although i never used it the whole time i lived in the UK. I supported people who were on benefits their whole life in the UK. People who had never worked and had large families who lived on social security. So get off your high horse, a lot of expats here have paid a damn sight more into the the UK economy than a lot of freeloaders who now infest the UK! And read my post and I quote “ I think a vote of thanks should also go to the UK for providing the vaccine for free” for free to Cayman you idiot!
Oh and by the way, we in “The Caymans” take all the heat while London one of the biggest money laundering cities in the world gets an free pass!
A lot of people sure don’t like the truth!
Israel has vaccinated 19.5% of its population. Our population is 65,000. Can you do the math?
I am so proud of the HSA’s efficiency at the roll out on Thursday.
And I am very thankful to the government over all its handling of the Covid pandemic.
I was just watching CNN where they were weighing the risks of delaying the second dose in order to cover more people, as the US and the UK are doing.
Thank God we don’t have that issue here. The government is going by the book in giving the second dose within 21 days of the first. That is what the trials call for.
With more than 1,000 shots so far, we have enough for fewer than 4,000 from this batch to cover first and second doses.
I suggest that we take advantage of the opportunity ASAP so that more vaccines can be ordered as soon as possible to cover another several thousands of our population.
Here is the link to the schedule:
https://hsa.ky/news_events/public-health-launches-covid-19-vaccination-campaign/
Are they delaying Sister Islands, or just not on that schedule?
I have read this comment twice on this thread. Why on earth do you think there will be no issues with vaccine supply? Cayman has received 5000 doses – enough to vaccinate 2500 people assuming maximum efficiency. When will the next batch come? Who knows. Supply is coming from the UK, where there is limited stock. Your comment seems to suggest that there is a limitless supply – this is clearly not the case and vaccinations should be handled carefully just as in the UK and the US.
I have read this comment twice. How many vials Cayman received? Each carton has 195 vials that equals 1,000 doses. If they received 9,750 doses, that means they should vaccinate 4,875 people and keep the rest in a deep freezer for 3 weeks. Since they can’t refreeze vials, 5,000 people should be vaccinated within 5 days after transferring vials from freezer to fridge, leaving 250 doses short for the second shot.
Cayman received 9,700+ vaccines. That is enough for nearly 5,000 first and second doses
9:12 am: Yes, the post was inadvertently posted twice–something to do with the technology– unintentional.
I heard the Governor assuring that additional supplies would be available locally, and all things being equal I think we will be ok. But we will have to wait and see.
By the way, your figure for number of vaccines is incorrect — not 5,000 vaccines. It is approx 5,000 first and second doses, enough for nearly 5,000 persons to be immunized.
The Government wants to see how that is utilized prior to organizing additional supplies — which makes sense to me, giving the handling issues and expiry date of this vaccine.
Hang in.
Excellent news. The greater the percentage of our community that are vaccinated the safer we will all be.
Kudos to the HSA for what seems to be an impressive beginning. I’m in South Florida and the vaccine rollout out here is a shambles.
That’s what you get with a traitor as your representative.
We will likely find that our vaccination certificates will become an essential part of our travel documents.
So if we want to get on those planes for those long overdue Miami shopping trips when the border reopens we may have to get the vaccine.
And the quicker the better so that more vaccines can come in to cover the entire population.
In the meantime, we have a limited supply right now. Get it while it is readily available. You don’t want to have to put off that shipping trip because govt is waiting for supplies. It could happen if you don’t take the vaccine at earliest opportunity.
The US allows exemptions to vaccines…..even “mandatory” ones for students. I doubt they’ll be making it mandatory. Other countries…..maybe.
They can make them mandatory for visitors though, surely.
Does anyone know if we will get more of the Pfizer vaccine or will it be the Astra Zeneca one next time?
I was one of those who received the jab yesterday. The organization of all this was fantastic. Bravo to all those involved in the process for it is a job VERY well done indeed!
My parents got theirs yesterday and said it was well-organized process!
Let us know how you get on with the second dose.
I’m sure it will be fine, still not sure why it’s needed
You need two doses. That is what the scientists responsible for the trials say. Why question it?
This is not the first vaccine that requires a booster shot.
As a 72 year old male I got my shot on Friday. It is painless and it is now Saturday morning and I still feel great. There were about 100 people in front on me but I was in and out of the hospital in about 1 hour. I found it well organized. Many thanks to CNS for all the info in your library.
They need to ensure visitors are not getting our vaccines
They are.
Your sense of entitlement is breathtaking.
Don’t want it? Don’t take it.
Spreading false information eg “Ohhh that’s just a vitamin shot” makes you look dumb. Especially when the only evidence you have to back up such claims is a proven false conspiracy video off of youtube.
Can’t wait for my turn.
Keep those blue smurfs away from me!!!
Well keep you away from them!
Well done Cayman!
Question. Why is the vaccine not being administered during the weekend?
1 box = 5000 doses that have to be administered by the end of Monday. So far 1076 doses administered.
Do we know it’s not?
Hope Caymanians take advantage of this free vaccine like the expats in huge numbers today.
Caymanians are not that stupid. Real Caymanians I mean. That excludes politicians.
And Mac status grants.
Anyone know why you have to wear a mask?
It is and has been protocol at all hospitals and airports here for several months.
9:37: you have to wear a mask because we cannot be sure the virus is not out there. We are making that assumption but we don’t have a certainty that people we come across are virus free.
Even after vaccination, we may still have to wear masks in certain situations, because it is not yet known whether the vaccine will inactivate any virus that we might breathe in and whether we could therefore unknowingly transmit.
There will also be no way of knowing who has been vaccinated and who has not been vaccinated.
It’s a hospital..The protocol has never changed for doctors offices and hospitals..You need to wear your mask.. be grateful you only have to wear it when you go there.
It appears that any interaction with medical staff requires the user of a mask.
I had blood tests done and had to wear a mask while in the lab. Ditto at the doctor’s office.
Wonderful news. Cayman is indeed world class.
Yea in this instance and the private firms. But civil servants and general customer service? Not so much.
great news for cayman
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Can we force Jamaicans to get the jab? I know a lot and they all believe they’re messing with some crazy dangerous stuff because of some ridiculous nonsense they’ve seen on WhatsApp.
COVID is generally worse for black people. Please, get the vaccine.
The Jamaican’s BTWest leader JonJon didn’t want to take it, Alden had to step in to make sure he got vaccinated….Minister of Health…?
Please tell me that is not true.
You can AKS him yourself.
The amount of crazy lies I hear from the Jamaican community makes me sad. They have been represented by people who want to keep them dumb and fearful.
Stupid statement of the century. Didn’t know the virus could detect nationality. Every country has conspiracy theorists. Geeze
Including visitors
Congratulation Govt. HSA and all involved . Getting the Covid shot was a beautifully organized speedy friendly and efficient experience .
Thank you all concerned.
I am so proud of the HSA’s efficiency at the roll out on Thursday.
And I am very thankful to the government over all its handling of the Covid pandemic.
I was just watching CNN where they were weighing the risks of delaying the second dose in order to cover more people, as the US and the UK are doing.
Thank God we don’t have that issue here. The government is going by the book in giving the second dose within 21 days of the first. That is what the trials call for.
With more than 1,000 shots so far, we have enough for fewer than 4,000 from this batch to cover first and second doses.
I suggest that we take advantage of the opportunity ASAP so that more vaccines can be ordered as soon as possible to cover another several thousands of our population.
Here is the link to the schedule:
https://hsa.ky/news_events/public-health-launches-covid-19-vaccination-campaign/
7:12 am: while it would be nice, we have to do the local population first. This is a limited resource for the people who live here.
Aside from the fact that visitors would need to be here for another 21 days to get the second dose, and while I think in principle visitors should get their vaccine in their home country,
I did not see anyone yesterday checking immigration status.
That is, other than requiring a local address on the consent form.
Buckingham Palace announced on Saturday that the Queen, 94, and her husband, 99, who are both in the high risk category, had been given vaccinations.
Waste of good vaccines.
I meant to gave mentioned that the fact that the Queen has been given the vaccine is only important in the context of her having access to the very best available medical advice. If her doctors have advised her and Prince Phillip to have the vaccine that should give us some assurance.
Who are the Neanderthals in our community who thumbed down the news that the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have recd their vaccinations?.Ignorance in this country knows no bounds.
Yes. A lot of ignorance especially when you have people from 130+ countries most of whom are too busy sucking on the teet to appreciate where the milk comes from.
Rule number 1 of being a successful parasite is to not kill your host!
It’s nice of them to give visitors the vaccine but they will have the opportunity to be vaccinated when they get home. There is already a limited supply so maybe save it for us here who want to be vaccinated before the border opens.