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Re: Coronavirus - COVID-19 - 7663 cases, 138 deaths, 159 active, 7366 recovered in T&T

Postby Devourment » February 20th, 2021, 9:00 pm

paid_influencer wrote:I think we reach the point where the critics need to shut up and start trusting the CMO, trusting the PM and understand that the authorities here will make the right decision at the right time. After what the WHO head has said, there is no excuse to keep fighting that fight against the government.


You're quite harden aren't you? You seem like the kind of person who would promote Sharia law to stop crime.

Brute force measures to control Covid aren't to be congratulated. I wonder if WHO is also congratulating North Korea as well for their excellent handling of Covid too.

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Postby paid_influencer » February 20th, 2021, 9:15 pm

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PRAGUE (AP) — Authorities in central Europe warned on Friday that they are seeing a surge in coronavirus cases across their region amid the discovery of new variants.

The Polish health minister, Adam Niedzielski, said the first case of a variant first found in South Africa had been discovered in Poland, and that some 10% of all cases now involve the variant that emerged in England.

“We are entering a crisis situation again. It is up to us where the peak of this third wave will be” Niedzielski said. “Responsible behavior is key.”

The Czech Republic, one of the hardest-hit countries in the 27-member European Union, moved Friday to further tighten restrictive measures amid a surge of the English variant. The government said the worsening situation has forced it to abandon its plans to reopen all stores as early as next week.


This is the alternative. We can keep the country open or keep the borders open, but the virus will not allow us to have both.

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Postby Devourment » February 20th, 2021, 10:12 pm

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PRAGUE (AP) — Authorities in central Europe warned on Friday that they are seeing a surge in coronavirus cases across their region amid the discovery of new variants.

The Polish health minister, Adam Niedzielski, said the first case of a variant first found in South Africa had been discovered in Poland, and that some 10% of all cases now involve the variant that emerged in England.

“We are entering a crisis situation again. It is up to us where the peak of this third wave will be” Niedzielski said. “Responsible behavior is key.”

The Czech Republic, one of the hardest-hit countries in the 27-member European Union, moved Friday to further tighten restrictive measures amid a surge of the English variant. The government said the worsening situation has forced it to abandon its plans to reopen all stores as early as next week.


This is the alternative. We can keep the country open or keep the borders open, but the virus will not allow us to have both.


Explain the Caribbean then? Every country has open borders rectory except us?

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Postby paid_influencer » February 20th, 2021, 10:19 pm

Devourment wrote:Explain the Caribbean then? Every country has open borders rectory except us?


check out the car accident thread. notice every video starts with the car driving normal normal

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Postby Devourment » February 20th, 2021, 10:41 pm

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Devourment wrote:Explain the Caribbean then? Every country has open borders rectory except us?


check out the car accident thread. notice every video starts with the car driving normal normal


So you don't think borders can be open safely with quarantines? If that's your view, I disagree. Also, I'm not saying open to tourist but open to at least trinis, it's extremely difficult to conduct life like this.

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Postby ruffneck_12 » February 21st, 2021, 10:16 pm

so it has a 98% survival rate


Cool cool cool

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Postby sMASH » February 21st, 2021, 11:47 pm

keep borders closed. to enter u should have vaccination pass port or enter into 14 mandatory quarantine.
if u dont need to enter society, they should set up a quarantine zone in the air port and at least one major seaport for people who just need to do some physical business with locals, like sign documents etc with strict covid protocols.


thats my opinion on what policy should be.

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Postby redmanjp » February 22nd, 2021, 1:27 am

ruffneck_12 wrote:so it has a 98% survival rate

Cool cool cool



and 30% rate of long term health issues too! not that a 28000 potential dead trinis is something to brush off
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Postby redmanjp » February 22nd, 2021, 1:31 am

Half a million people in the US are now dead from covid19

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-reaches-500-000-deaths-coronavirus-n1257992

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Postby MaxPower » February 22nd, 2021, 11:19 am

Friends,

Frequent mask wearing also has its negative effects.

Understanding facial recognition and expressions is very important in the development of the younger generation especially little children.

Imagine not understanding what a smile is.

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Postby redmanjp » February 22nd, 2021, 2:33 pm

MaxPower wrote:Friends,

Frequent mask wearing also has its negative effects.

Understanding facial recognition and expressions is very important in the development of the younger generation especially little children.

Imagine not understanding what a smile is.


i think there are some transparent masks now on the market

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Postby timelapse » February 22nd, 2021, 8:25 pm

Imagine not knowing your grandparents, because some moron decided to give them Covid.
MaxPower wrote:Friends,

Frequent mask wearing also has its negative effects.

Understanding facial recognition and expressions is very important in the development of the younger generation especially little children.

Imagine not understanding what a smile is.


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Postby redmanjp » February 23rd, 2021, 10:24 pm

timelapse wrote:Imagine not knowing your grandparents, because some moron decided to give them Covid.
MaxPower wrote:Friends,

Frequent mask wearing also has its negative effects.

Understanding facial recognition and expressions is very important in the development of the younger generation especially little children.

Imagine not understanding what a smile is.


yeah, half a million grandchildren in that situation now in the US, only assuming 1 child per grandparent

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Postby 2WNBoost » February 24th, 2021, 11:02 am

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/02/19/969529969/price-check-nations-pay-wildly-different-prices-for-vaccines
Price Check: Nations Pay Wildly Different Prices For Vaccines
February 19, 20215:57 PM ET
Editor's note: This story was updated at 9:55 a.m. ET on Feb. 20 to include a statement provided by email from AstraZeneca.

The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Keith Rowley, is not happy about how the global rollout of COVID vaccines is going. He's not happy at all.
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"We are more than a little bit concerned that there is ... or is to be ... hoarding and price gouging," of vaccines, the Prime Minister said in a press conference on Thursday with the head of the World Health Organization.

He knows all too well how problematic acquiring vaccines is right now.

While nearly 60 million doses of COVID vaccine have been administered in the United States, most nations in the world have vaccinated hardly anyone. Trinidad and Tobago finally immunized its first front-line worker on Wednesday — but that was only possible because India donated doses to Barbados, which in turn handed out small batches to several of its Caribbean neighbors.

In an ideal world, the price of a vial of vaccine would be consistent across the globe.
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According to the available data, the cost of some other vaccines varies even more wildly. Reported prices for the inoculation from the Chinese government-backed company Sinopharm varies even more dramatically. They range from$18.50 per shot in Senegal to $44 inside China to up to $72.50 a dose. That for a vaccine that still hasn't won authorization from any major regulator outside of China.

Manuel Martin with the Doctors Without Borders Access campaign says smaller nations are at a disadvantage in negotiations with pharmaceutical companies for vaccines.

"These [smaller] countries don't have the purchasing power or the ability to strike bilateral deals," Martin adds – even if they're wealthy. "Obviously, manufacturers are less interested in delivering relatively small quantities to smaller countries than they are delivering larger quantities to countries with larger populations and also bigger purchasing power."

A global initiative called COVAX run by the World Health Organization, GAVI and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations is trying to bring equitable access to vaccines around the globe, providing free or reduced-cost vaccines to nations in need.

But even COVAX isn't disclosing exactly how much it's paying for each vaccine. "In terms of the individual agreements with manufacturers, that is proprietary information and not something that we're planning on sharing, given the nature of those types of commercial and legal agreements," said Seth Berkley, the head of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance in a call with reporters in December.

And while it appears to be close to starting deliveries so far it hasn't administered a single dose.

Even middle income countries that hosted clinical trials for vaccine manufacturers are finding it difficult to negotiate deals with the very companies they helped. Argentina hosted a major Phase 3 trial for Pfizer yet has been unable to reach an agreement with the company to buy its highly successful product.

Peru conducted trials for Sinopharm but then lawmakers say they couldn't get a discount when the experimental phase was over and they had to start paying for Sinopharm's shots.

"There are people there that are literally putting their bodies on the line to advance the development of these vaccines and then they're being shortchanged when it comes to vaccine access," says Martin with Doctors Without Borders. "Price is one element. The other one is whether they even get access to doses."

He says a "vaccine apartheid" is developing in which the rich get early access to doses and access to the most effective shots.

As variants continue to spread, Martin warns global inequality to vaccines could get even worse.

"New variants may evade some of the vaccines, and then those vaccines are ones that wealthier countries won't want to have, and those will be the ones that are available," he says. "So we'll have perhaps even more inequality in terms of the quality or adequacy of vaccines between high income countries and developing countries."

Prime Minister Rowley of Trinidad and Tobago says it doesn't have to be this way.

"History is littered with instances of destructive behavior, disrespectful dominance, imbalances and other forms of man's inhumanity to man," Rowley said.

"But on this rare occasion, when we are all yoked to an invisible destroyer, it is my hope and plea that when the journal of this experience is written, it would deviate from what is mostly the norm and record that on this occasion, the rich took care of the poor. And the small and impecunious were not trampled with disdain by those who could have done so simply because they had the wherewithal to do it."

He called for global vaccine distribution based on models of "sharing and caring" that provide equitable access to small countries like his and "benefit of all humankind and not just the privileged, well-heeled few."

AstraZenca sent NPR this statement by email: "AstraZeneca is committed to supplying the vaccine broadly and equitably around the world at no profit during the pandemic period. The price of the vaccine will differ due to number of factors, including the cost of manufacturing which varies dependent on the geographic region, and the volumes requested by the countries."

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Postby timelapse » February 24th, 2021, 4:25 pm

Big oil has problems, big pharma take over.esentially we are all lab rats

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Postby MaxPower » February 24th, 2021, 4:37 pm

Stay strong Master Keith...

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Postby redmanjp » February 24th, 2021, 10:44 pm

long covid has a name

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dr-fauci-just-warned-post-194118763.html


Dr. Fauci Just Warned of Post-Acute COVID Syndrome

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Wed, February 24, 2021, 3:41 PM

There is good news, finally, for those “long haulers” suffering from the long-term effects of COVID, or what is now known as Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC). Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to the President and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared at the White House COVID-19 Response Team Briefing to announce that the National Institutes of Health is researching it, backed by $1.15 billion of funding. “I'm happy to say that yesterday, there was the first in what will be a series of research opportunity announcements released for NIH initiatives on this puzzling syndrome,” he said. Read on—and to ensure your health and the health of others, don't miss these Sure Signs You've Already Had Coronavirus.

Dr. Fauci Described Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) and Its Symptoms
Said Dr. Fauci: “The symptoms of this include fatigue, shortness of breath, sleep disorders, fevers, GI symptoms, anxiety, and depression, and what some have heard me referring to as ‘brain fog’ or an inability or a difficulty in concentrating or focusing. Remember these are post acute sequelae: After the virus essentially has been cleared from the body and actually new symptoms sometimes arise well after the time of infection or they evolve over time and they may persist…for months and can range from mild annoying to actually quite incapacitating. The magnitude of the problem is not yet fully known.”

Dr. Fauci described a few studies that indicate the issue could affect a significant percentage of the population. “There have been a number of papers that have described in some detail”—he mentioned one “in China of 1,700 patients who actually had been hospitalized” but stressed that “you can get this post acute syndrome, even in individuals who did not require hospitalization. The six month followup showed a variety of signs and symptoms shown here with many having fatigue and weakness…sleep difficulties, anxiety, or depression, and the greater proportion of patients with more severe illness at impaired lung diffusion and capacity.”

A new study from the University of Washington found “something alarming” said Fauci—that “approximately 30% of the patients who were enrolled…reported persistent symptoms for as long as nine months after illness. Fatigue was the most common reported symptom and persistent symptoms were reported by one third of our patients with mild disease.“

Dr. Fauci Discussed Possibilities for Treatment
Fauci’s inter-agency group—including the NIH, the CDC and others—met in December with “experts in all of these areas, cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal, neurologic, immunologic, and pediatrics, to scope out the kinds of things that we would need to be looking at with this puzzling syndrome.”

There is no cure for Long COVID. Dr. Fauci was asked if he “could tell us just a little bit more about, and it's early, but what the epidemic of Long COVID might look like even beyond the pandemic and how worried you are about that. And if you're seeing any early work going on in trying to develop sort of therapeutics or other ways of addressing it?”

“That's a very important question about what we can do about it, and that's the reason why we are creating these cohorts and we're looking at what might possibly be hints at pathogenesis,” said Fauci. “It's very difficult to treat something when you don't know what the target of the treatment is. And that's the reason why it's extremely important to take a look at these individuals, not only the scope of this and not only the depth and breadth of the symptoms, but also to try and have some correlate that actually is a pathophysiological correlate. Once we get that—and an important part of this would be to design therapeutic approaches, hopefully by medications that we already have. We just need to know how to use them.”

How to Not Get Long COVID
Follow Fauci’s fundamentals and help end this pandemic, no matter where you live—wear a face mask that fits snugly and is double layered, don’t travel, social distance, avoid large crowds, don't go indoors with people you're not sheltering with (especially in bars), practice good hand hygiene, get vaccinated when it becomes available to you, and to protect your life and the lives of others, don't visit any of these 35 Places You're Most Likely to Catch COVID.

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Postby paid_influencer » February 27th, 2021, 4:27 pm

so NYC has its own unique variant now that combines the worst of the South African and Brazilian strains.


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Postby redmanjp » February 27th, 2021, 8:55 pm

Ah could swear xtra foods have like 300+ ppl tonight. Cud almost breathe d covid. Crowd almost like xmas eve oui.

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Postby Dohplaydat » February 27th, 2021, 10:07 pm

Avenue ram out tonight too.....

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Postby Dave » February 27th, 2021, 10:08 pm

Plenty for twenty!
redmanjp wrote:Ah could swear xtra foods have like 300+ ppl tonight. Cud almost breathe d covid. Crowd almost like xmas eve oui.

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Postby K74T » February 27th, 2021, 10:25 pm

Month end

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Postby redmanjp » February 27th, 2021, 11:02 pm

K74T wrote:Month end

why ppl cyah manage dey money and spread it out through the month so they don't have to all rush on the same day to buy groceries and crowd d place in a pandemic :roll:

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Postby timelapse » February 28th, 2021, 6:42 am

Because they can't keep their arse inside.My brethren living there and he say is normal behavior going on
paid_influencer wrote:so NYC has its own unique variant now that combines the worst of the South African and Brazilian strains.


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Postby redmanjp » February 28th, 2021, 2:48 pm

Significant mutations are rare but when u have a huge amount of infections the chances of 1 happening are much higher. Why we have not mandated a 14 day state quarantine for the US and only for the UK is beyond me. On the 8th day u can still be incubating this virus and sneak out of your home. Then with this new variant all the current protocols would be ineffective and lockdown would be required in a few weeks time.

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Postby redmanjp » February 28th, 2021, 3:18 pm

Dave wrote:Plenty for twenty!
redmanjp wrote:Ah could swear xtra foods have like 300+ ppl tonight. Cud almost breathe d covid. Crowd almost like xmas eve oui.


And this probably means they not complying with the 50% limitation

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Postby Dohplaydat » March 1st, 2021, 9:54 pm

Kamla trolling PNM big time.

Watch Modi and them put the ball in PNM's court saying if they want, all they have to do is ask.

TT government then looks like lazy complacent even racist idiots, and Kamla appears to be our savior.

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