COVID-19 in Trinidad & Tobago (Local Updates & Discussions Only)

[widdyphuck]

Well at least our PM is COVID-19 free and can steer the country back to sustainable growth.

[nervewrecker]

Names call in the news

[De Dragon]

Names call in the news

Loose it!

[paid_influencer]

Daz if d guy got an antibody test. I presume the institution would be aware an antibody test would be positive in the case of a recovered patient.

If he got a PCR test, there's an off chance it may be positive but you'd have to look at the following:

(1) the clinic picture. If he's been asymptomatic for 2-3 weeks after a confirmed positive, it is probably an artifact of testing and not evidence of an active infection.

(2) the actual viral load measured by the PCR test. Even if he has tiny remnants of the viral RNA in his nose, PCR will pick that up but that doesn't mean he is infectious.

If the MoH cleared him, that's good enough. He meets or exceeds the CDC guidelines as well, which is only 10 days after symptoms first appear and 24 hours of no fever.

[pugboy]

With respect to ?

Names call in the news

[pugboy]

Interesting that they say once 24hrs passed after any fever you good to mingle.
So all virus is dead in your body after a fever bout and 24hrs.

Daz if d guy got an antibody test. I presume the institution would be aware an antibody test would be positive in the case of a recovered patient.

If he got a PCR test, there's an off chance it may be positive but you'd have to look at the following:

(1) the clinic picture. If he's been asymptomatic for 2-3 weeks after a confirmed positive, it is probably an artifact of testing and not evidence of an active infection.

(2) the actual viral load measured by the PCR test. Even if he has tiny remnants of the viral RNA in his nose, PCR will pick that up but that doesn't mean he is infectious.

If the MoH cleared him, that's good enough. He meets or exceeds the CDC guidelines as well, which is only 10 days after symptoms first appear and 24 hours of no fever.

[nervewrecker]

De hell, I don't want no police by my house.

Nobody watch the news? Unless I get wrong info of what was on the news.

Leme rephrase, some names call. They moving breathless this rounds, I don't wanna get shaft. I man staying put and staying quiet.

[paid_influencer]

Interesting that they say once 24hrs passed after any fever you good to mingle.
So all virus is dead in your body after a fever bout and 24hrs.

10 days after symptoms appear AND 24 hours of no fever without fever-reducing medication.

a minimum of 10 days

[redmanjp]

Names call in the news

which news? i watch cnc3 but didn't here what u talking about

[nervewrecker]

Heard it was in some energy talk section. I was watching tv elsewhere.

Please tell me someone else saw it.

[redmanjp]

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[paid_influencer]

I replayed the TV6 news. They had an energy segment near the end; 42 were infected with COVID on a BP platform and 12 on a Shell platform, but that was since April 15. I didn't hear any name call tho

[nervewrecker]

Well company name nah. Shell and someone else. I donno anything about bp. That's news to me

[Ted_v2]

papps

[widdyphuck]

What a miracle.

[MaxPower]

Maybe he had it for longer but the tests erroneously came back negative?

But ok, well done to the old timer.

[Dohplaydat]

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Not really

[daring dragoon]

Worse thing using a faceshield...
-Glare
- feeling of dizziness when looking and walking
- you still hadda use a mask
- it presses on your temples

Almost everyone I see using a face shield does so alone essentially replacing the mask.
In my workplace, in groceries and malls etc.

worst thing than wearing a faceshield and mask ? ....
getting covid and end up in hospital or end up dead. you all seeing what going on in india, people being treated in their cars as it have no room in the hospital. cremations taking place all over. TT might have to take caroni land to bury the dead if that happen here.

[De Dragon]

Faceshield without mask makes no sense.

[pugboy]

I feel we getting higher cases rest of the week,
yesterday st clair medical had longest lines i've ever seen ALL morning
I live/work near there

[K74T]

[daring dragoon]

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Was it a ploy so the other ministers like frankie will take it an he will just sit an watch as the head man?

[Dohplaydat]

I feel we getting higher cases rest of the week,
yesterday st clair medical had longest lines i've ever seen ALL morning
I live/work near there

This is right, we can getting 200+ daily cases this week.

If you examine the number of tests done they've almost doubled in the last 2 weeks and our positive ratio is climbing.

Won't be surprised if a get a 300 figure one day.

[widdyphuck]

I feel we getting higher cases rest of the week,
yesterday st clair medical had longest lines i've ever seen ALL morning
I live/work near there

This is right, we can getting 200+ daily cases this week.

If you examine the number of tests done they've almost doubled in the last 2 weeks and our positive ratio is climbing.

Won't be surprised if a get a 300 figure one day.

They don't have the resources to test more than 180 per day.

[pugboy]

yeah the positivity ratio is an indicator

[Dohplaydat]

I feel we getting higher cases rest of the week,
yesterday st clair medical had longest lines i've ever seen ALL morning
I live/work near there

This is right, we can getting 200+ daily cases this week.

If you examine the number of tests done they've almost doubled in the last 2 weeks and our positive ratio is climbing.

Won't be surprised if a get a 300 figure one day.

They don't have the resources to test more than 180 per day.

Private labs add a lot of capacity. We are now testing 500-600 a day combined.

[K74T]

[redmanjp]

I feel we getting higher cases rest of the week,
yesterday st clair medical had longest lines i've ever seen ALL morning
I live/work near there

This is right, we can getting 200+ daily cases this week.

If you examine the number of tests done they've almost doubled in the last 2 weeks and our positive ratio is climbing.

Won't be surprised if a get a 300 figure one day.

They don't have the resources to test more than 180 per day.

Private labs add a lot of capacity. We are now testing 500-600 a day combined.

but that depends on ppl willing to fork out $1400 or so, or govt outsourcing to those labs, otherwise plenty cases going undetected and no contact tracing of their contacts

[Dohplaydat]

but that depends on ppl willing to fork out $1400 or so, or govt outsourcing to those labs, otherwise plenty cases going undetected and no contact tracing of their contacts

Lots of cases go undetected, I was video chatting with a colleague this morning and she is coughing and thinking it's most likely covid-19 but she lives alone with her husband and they both work from home so they not going for testing.

Not to mention the asymtomatics as well.

We can safely say best case we are detecting 1 in 5 cases, however given past research in other countries, I suspect we're only detecting 10%.

So if we see another 1000 cases this week that means 5000-10,000 have covid and out there and spreading it. With an Rnaught of 2, that would mean in the following week, they infect 10k-20k!

[MaxPower]

Team,

What’s the update for today?