Travellers buck negative test trend
(CNS): After a decline in travellers testing positive for COVID-19 this week, three positive cases bucked that new trend and increased the active cases among the 746 people in isolation to 32. Three of those individuals are suffering symptoms of the disease. Cayman has now recorded 411 positive cases since it began testing people in March last year and 200 of them have been recorded since the partial border re-opening on 1 October.
Meanwhile, public health officials have continued to focus on delivering the second doses of the vaccine, with 6,371 people now having completed the full vaccine course.
In total, 9,172 people have had at least one shot of the vaccine. That number is expected to increase significantly next week when those in the second stage will be invited to attend the open clinics from Saturday.
Category: Health, Medical Health
Dr. Lee should no longer be trusted.
He’s not.
There is growing evidence that running too many replication cycles in a PCR test provides too many false positives. Anything over 35 cycles is supposed to be 3% accurate, meaning 97% of positive results could be false positives if the test is run too many times. I would guess that’s why we have so many asymptomatic positives here. There’s no saying that these particular cases needed that many cycles before returning a positive, but it could explain our healthy infected, and our positive on arrival vs negative 3 days prior travelers.
This is EXACTLY why we’re still seeing “positives”. Dr Lee has said they push those cycles to the limits.
MIT does regular testing of everyone at 50 cycles and is seeing overall positive rates of .05%-.06% That supports what others have theorized that false positives are generally due to cross-contamination due to mishandling of the tests or testing process. That means that you would likely have more false positives in environments where you have a lot of infections. In Cayman where everybody has been tested once 72 hours before arrival you would expect fewer opportunities for cross contamination. My two cents.
https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/11/pcr-test-result
News story from the UK – https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14004204/british-airways-covid-test-negative/
We don’t allow rapid tests to be used, they are 50% effective.
If that?
The positives seem to reflect the timings of the incoming Jamaica flights. Perhaps someone needs to look at the standards of pre-tests from that country?
How about from every country in which the positive person landed from!
But don’t tell us in case the pitchforks come out!
nothing from jamica should be trusted….and jamaican driving liscence should not be accepted here.
LOL neither should the Cayman one!
9.57am and some deny there are racist comments from locals?.
White Jamaicans just as bad drivers.
No open borders, no vote.
Why should we believe anything Dr Lee tells us?
Because he was in Cayman cookout. He is my hero. Honest, knowledgeable and decent.
But obviously not beyond contempt🙄
Except for the honest part.
Exactly, his credit is shot.
because regarding covid…he has been a beacon of hope amongst a sea of local clowns…
9:59 More like he is the clown.
Any comments regarding creditability are valid but to be fair, he WAS a beacon of hope amongst a sea of local clowns/buffoons/poets etc. And of course this was before we realized his history and desire to please (as evidenced by his email/court etc)
Because he’s overseen one of the best ‘national’ pandemic responses on the planet?
Because Dr. Lee is not a truthful man.
Had a background check been done on him?
#syed