PH confirms over 5,300 people still in isolation
(CNS): According to the most up-to-date figures released by the Public Health Department in several weeks, despite a decline in the number of new cases of COVID-19, there are still 5,316 people officially in isolation having tested positive for the virus. For two months now the business community and public services have been dealing with significant staff shortages as a result of workers being placed in quarantine.
Although the new daily case number are now falling to around 200 and people in quarantine are able to be released after just seven days if they are negative and vaccinated, the fact that around 10% of the workforce is positive on any given day has taken a serious toll.
Reporting on test results between 6 and 9 February, officials said there were an additional 416 cases so far over those three days, though the figure of 82 for Wednesday is not the final count.
Meanwhile, as of Thursday afternoon, there are 15 patients in the hospital as a result of COVID-19, ten of whom are unvaccinated.
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Updated data from the Financial Times today. COVID infection fatality rate nearing that of the flu (which is good news, and heading even closer). As seen in this chart, in the early days, COVID’s IFR was nearly 20 times that of the flu.
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1492138139103768576
Get a life please
I think they are trying to say we need to continue with life. Covid is nothing worse than the flu. Stop all this testing! Esp day 2,5 & 7 for visitors & exit PCR testing for all positives.
Please please government. Stop the madness.
WHO chief scientist says COVID-19 pandemic is not over: “There will be more variants, more variants of concern”
That is correct. There will be more variants, doesn’t change the fact the vast majority are doing little to nothing and acting like it “is” over.
Its like trying to have a peeing section in a pool.
New Zealand allows the business lobby to push for a return to normal recently, and then this was reported 12/2/2022:
“New Zealand reports a record 810 new coronavirus cases, nearly doubling yesterday’s record.”
And scientific reports are surfacing on the effects of “mild Covid” on pregnant mothers, and increasing the risk of heart disease and strokes.
But, the “refusal to test” selfish idiots don’t care if these negative effects happen to you or your family of loved ones, and there are thousands of these morons walking among us, working alongside us, and serving our meals.
Ardern has proven herself a leader a la Trudeau, Johnson, Morrisson, Biden etc. All rabid globalists (apologies to flat earthers).
They are all singing from the same hymnbook and quite frankly, the cacophony of ultra-left harmonies are grating on my ears.
Can’t we have governments that are pro-people and not pro-agenda.
We all used to live in peace years ago. I had friends back in the 80s and 90s who were great fun.
Now we just argue politics and religion.
The media can help us get back to normal by guiding us to focus on real matters such as common needs in society and exposing corruption in our leaders.
Sometimes the old-fashioned ways and values are still the best.
We can’t live in fear forever. Many of those who complain are the ones staying home and being paid by government.
“Many of those…”
Oh shut up. Presumptuous clown
Obviously a member of the Branch Covidians
4.20pm Part of this madness is requiring Caymanians, status holders and permanent residents to get a Certificate allowing them to return home. Stop this madness as well.
True. I have to report to work and be tested before I even sit at my desk, only to risk being told I have the virus and then quarantined. Madness. Enough is enough. We have to learn to live with this.
Funny, I don’t remember flu attacking my brain, heart, and other vital organs. Along with depriving me of my sense of smell and taste of food.
You don’t remember because it didn’t happen to you, did it? just like none of the thousands of Cayman residents infected with Omnicron seem to e experiencing those symptoms either. or dying – ball of which were definitely true of earlier variants. But you just keep nursing your fear and using that to justify the continuing imposition of restrictions.
What’s your point? The fact is that idiots compared covid to flu at the beginning of the pandemic but now things are very different. In the vaccination Omicron era the infection mortality rate for the fully vaccinated is now well below that for flu.
What a weird response to an informative chart.
We each have our own source of information and are tired of other people “informing” us of what they believe we must know.
At this point this is becoming annoying. And yes time spent on a beach or in nature clears one’s mind of worries and research obsession.
The only new thing I have learned is that covid is airborne , but flu is transmitted by droplets. I didn’t know the difference. Turns out droplets are larger and airborne particles are smaller, therefore cloth face masks might stop flu, but not covid, depending on the fabric of course.
Traditionally, droplets are defined as large (>5 microns) aqueous bodies. However, airborne (or aerosolized) transmission of the virus has been proposed as a source of infection almost since the inception of the COVID pandemic. By comparison to droplets, aerosolized particles are infinitesimal.
Financial times, lol. Not like that they are an unbiased source
Unlike our Chief Medical Officer and our Minister of Health? Of course, the FT article seems to have some data to back it up, but don’t let interfere with your completely unbiased perception 😉
It was high because they didn’t prescribe medications to people.
Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case
“People who had recovered from COVID-19 showed stark increases in 20 cardiovascular problems over the year after infection. For example, they were 52% more likely to have had a stroke than the contemporary control group, meaning that, out of every 1,000 people studied, there were around 4 more people in the COVID-19 group than in the control group who experienced stroke.
The risk of heart failure increased by 72%, or around 12 more people in the COVID-19 group per 1,000 studied. Hospitalization increased the likelihood of future cardiovascular complications, but even people who avoided hospitalization were at higher risk for many conditions.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0
Mild heart disease and strokes. Cool
why are people still complying with these draconian rules?
Look, it is good that citizens follow the rules of their elected rulers….the problem arises when the rulers get it wrong and refuse to acknowledge it….PACT can still save themselves and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat here if they just take a step back and look at what is happening with travel restrictions, masking, mandates, protests, etc and look at our own situation with so many vaccinated, so few hosp’ns, and start to deal in the today version of covid and not the feared Wuhan zombie apocalypse that we all saw and feared 2 years ago
Come on PACT..before the trucks park outside the LA and i can’t get my $10 starbucks cup of diabetes…
You had me with you for a little bit and then true colors appeared. Typical
We, the rational thinkers, are not.
Rational thinkers, lol. More like selfish jerks
At least they are not cowardly fearmongers.
Not like you, right? You’re an even-handed fair person who allows everyone to make their own choices.
RIGHT? Right?
They aren’t. CIG pretends that they are. First, you have all the self tested positives who are not reporting and either not isolating or doing so on their own terms – self release after two negative LFTs for example. Public Health has no idea how many of those there are. Then you have the ones who have been tested by Public Health and are positive. They are supposed to self isolate until they get a PCR test, but there is no enforcement or checking to ensure compliance. No one knows what the total number actually isolating is.
I agree with your take on the self-testers not wanting to put themselves at the mercy of the system. The system as it currently exists will never see me self-reporting a positive LFT. I will self-isolate and respect the health of others. However, looking at the overall picture, if as you suggest there are a lot more positives than are being reported–and there is no reason to doubt that may be true– then we have a basis for optimism because in the face of the infection rate possibly being greater than we know, the hospitalisation rate is falling. The crucial statistic is the number of seriously ill. That number is apparently falling. No one can tell what the future holds so spiking the ball in the end zone is a fool’s dance. Because of the high propensity of Sars Cov-2 to mutate, it is very likely that at some point more virulent, more transmissible, and more deadly variants will emerge. Virus mutation is like a roll of the dice, no one knows when the roll will come up with Snake Eyes.
The pandemic of failed responsibility marches on
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/spain-loosens-covid-restrictions-for-unvaccinated-british-tourists-ahead-of-half-term-holidays/224304
This should be done here immediately. Infact all travel rules need to end, we have the virus, we know who it likes, they can be protected, enough already.
People are already planning Xmas 2022 vacations and they are not coming here as long as we treat covid like it’s March 2020
We also have LFT kits that can filter out all the asymptomatic positives in minutes, but the selfish are too cheap or scared to use them. There’s no reason why we need 10% of the population to be sick with every new variant forever, even if it’s likened to just a bad flu. Dummies.
Incomplete reporting is making us look like absolute idiots on the world stage.
Again we don’t report “recovered” or “active” so the international websites are adding the new cases to the last “active” we provided.
Worldmeters is now showing 9118 active cases for us.
The Minister of Tourism needs to realise that the sector needs all the help it can get, and lack of accurate reporting is damaging.
It’s more important to CIG to use the remaining jabs at the cost of 2022 tourism.
8.07am I monitor Worldometer daily , it seems we update them with our figures every 2 or 3 weeks.
Yes…I have vacation rentals and our potential guests are of the opinion that we have a MUCH higher incidence than places in the US. Accurate daily reporting would certainly help tourism. At least allow people to make educated decisions.
Pandemic of the Civil Service
Pandemic of the selfish idiots who aren’t following the rules and contributing to the spread across the islands
Pandemic of failed responsibility
It is fear why we are still here, frozen.
We need to help each other to remove the fear.
Let them know it’s over, they need to start living again, free and free from fear. Help them to snap out of it.
As long as CIG is paying Marl Road to push their fear and jab agenda, we will never move forward. It’s crazy that triple jabbed persons are still full of so much fear.
I thought something was up with good old sandy!
I knew something was up she never utters even a vaguely critical commentary about any of them. Coincidentally her “news site” is growing into a radio show and all these doors are opening for her. No I am not a hater, just a person with eyes.
If you just realising that now, something is up with you.
You hit the nail on the head. Not just CML.
Says the individual who ‘fears’ their loss of ‘freedom’.
Fear is fear.
You are as complicit on the fear wagon as the other side.
Give it a rest.
Idiot
Judging by the growing number of selfish people using this thought process, it’s safe to assume every person one encounters in restaurants, bars, grocery stores, gyms, churches, offices, etc, could be infected and refusing to report it to place others at risk.
Truly insane.
That’s the truth of it. I shunned sick people before Covid. I stayed home when I was sick. Why have things changed? Selfishness. People who don’t acknowledge how blessed they are to live here.
It’s not fear. It’s empathy for others and being responsible enough to not spread a virus to others who it may affect in a bad way. It’s being a good person.
would love to see a breakdown of the numbers between locals and expats…..
We all know it’s not the people flying in that spread it
who cares?…the 5,300 knew exactly what they were doing.
forget covid….this figure is a bigger indicator of employee’s attitude towards their occupation and their employer.
It’s admirable that there are thousands here who refuse to report a positive. Thankful for these freedom fighters. So brave and courageous and selfless. Covid thanks you all for your dedicated service and inspiration to numbskulls everywhere.
You know we can self isolate and use LFTs to let us know we are over it, right?
You assume everyone who isn’t reporting is running around in public places. Simply put we are just not willing to go stand in line for an hour or so just to confirm what we already know. And especially not if we feel like shit because we are sick. Stay home, leave when you have 2 negative LFTs. Rinse repeat until further notice.
If only people here were that responsible.
8.18am What do you expect when 75% at least of our supermarket shoppers always ask for plastic bags, the same ones that have never been near a recycling bin in their life.
The Public Health Department no longer enjoys the trust and confidence of the public and the public is not listening to anything that they have to say. Additionally, the main reason why isolating individuals are having a serious toll on businesses is because too many businesses refused to put in place the policies and procedures that are necessary to facilitate working from home.
People (some) get tested to (hoping) be positive so they can work from home.
yep…covid has been a dream come true for many civil servants.
Maybe Wayne will give an update to his thinking on when these rules might be relaxed.
Oh wait, only one press conference this year so far.
With 5,000 currently locked up by his rules, the people deserve to hear from him just like every leader in the world.
Stop the madness!!! Getting Covid no longer means a hospital visit. This has always been about the right balance. We should have locked down when, we should have opened our boarders, we should have LFTs, but this has gone on too long and doesn’t match the science or the data. Positive doesn’t mean death.
Thank you, doctor.
‘Spread covid quickly to end the pandemic’ is not a strategy. Never has been. Never will be. Not at the start of the pandemic and certainly not now. At best, it’s wishful thinking that’s not supported by scientific evidence and betrays the essence of public health.
There is no science backing their decisions. The data speaks for itself. You’re stuck in 2020!
Mate, you’re still using ‘boarders’ in 2022. Please cease and desist.
It’s either no symptoms, a cold or a very bad terrible flu. And it’s a toss up as to who gets what unfortunately. I have seen all three personally. I do recall people dying of the flu. Whatever happened to the flu by the way?
Flu has gone to places with open “Boarders”.
Hell no. Nobody sane would self report. (Unless you work for Government and want a 2 week all expense paid vacation)
Omg this is nuts. 15 people in hospital, 5000+ in quarantine? What the heck. If PACT wants any hope of re-election, they need to stop their current bull crap, and rethink their boneheaded strategy. Time to move the F on. If you are r vulnerable, take precautions. If not…just get on with your life.
How can there be so many still in quarantine? This is nuts!!!!
Bermuda reported 88 cases & 1 new death, but only 272 active cases. If we have 5,316 active cases there are still thousands who have spent more than 7 days in isolation.
END the exit testing! Thus is crippling businesses (or are they all civil servants taking extended ‘vacation’)?!?!?
Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0
iTs jUsT a CoLD
Get vaccinated
J&J shut down their Covid drug plant. Hmmmmm.
Covid missed the notification that it was canceled. Shame!
We won’t be testing, certainly not reporting.
Thank you for your service to the moron militia!
You’re welcome COVID Queen!