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

[aaron17]

If the population isn’t willing to vaccinate then there will be lockdowns. In this case full 72hr lockdowns.

And when they say full lockdowns; make sure it is FULL lockdown.

No galavanting, no food delivery, no underground sales.

No Nothing.

Finally

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Four million cases of delta , can't this by itself spark a new variant?

Covid-19 Cases Rise As Delta Variant Sweeps The Globe
Last week, more than 4 million new cases were reported worldwide.


More than 203 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported since the start of the pandemic. (Direct Relief map)

Cases of Covid-19 continue to rise as the more contagious Delta variant leads to spikes in infections and hospitalizations across the globe.

Last week, more than 4 million new cases were reported worldwide, according to UN News. Overall, the virus has infected roughly 203 million people and killed 4.3 million since the pandemic began, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

This comes as just 15% of the global population has been fully vaccinated, according to Our World in Data. While nearly 4.5 billion doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been administered worldwide, only 1.1% of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose.

In Africa, Covid-19 deaths surged by 80% in the last month, most likely due to the current wave of Delta variant infections, as reported by CNN. The World Health Organization said that last week Tunisia had the world’s worst official death toll from Covid-19, with ICUs and ERs at capacity across the country. However, on Sunday, the country opened its vaccination eligibility to anyone over 40 years of age and inoculated half a million people in one day. Tunisia hopes to vaccinate half of its population by mid-October, according to France24.

In Southeast Asia, countries continue to grapple with the worst wave of Covid yet. Countries that contained the virus last year, such as Vietnam, are now running out of oxygen and hospital beds. Protests have broken out in Malaysia and Thailand due to economic hardship, and Myanmar is near total collapse under the double crisis of covid and a military coup, as reported by CNN.

Cases are rising again in some parts of India, as experts warn of a third wave later this month. According to the National Herald, Kerala, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka have all had a steady increase in cases over the past week.

In Indonesia, health systems are strained with oxygen and bed shortages. In response, Indonesian doctors have launched a free WhatsApp consultancy service for Covid-19 patients isolating at home. The program has helped patients stay at home and only seek hospital care when urgently needed, according to Al Jazeera.

With the exception of Chile, Latin America is once again becoming a global hotspot for Covid as the Delta variant takes hold. Peru is battling several coronavirus variants at once. Colombia is facing the longest wave of Covid so far, with ICUs at 95% capacity. Across Latin America and the Caribbean, nearly 1.4 million people have been killed by Covid-19, while vaccines ordered through the COVAX program have yet to arrive, according to DW.

At the same time, Latin America is experiencing a surge in political volatility as Covid has exacerbated many of the region’s economic vulnerabilities. Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, and Guatemala have all seen major demonstrations in the streets, as reported by The Guardian.

In the U.S., southern states are experiencing a surge in cases, with many hospitals at or near capacity. Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, and parts of Texas are reporting some of the highest case rates in the country, according to the New York Times. Florida continues to break record numbers of daily new cases, with 23,903 news cases reported last Friday – the state’s highest single-day count for the sixth day in a row, according to NBC News. For the first time since last February, the United States is averaging more than 100,000 new cases a day.

https://www.directrelief.org/2021/08/co ... the-globe/

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No need to punctuate , this isn't an exam , it's an informal forum incase you were unaware.

So do Nothing basically leave high cases (600 cases)and let deaths continue less than 10 percent of Jamaica is fully vaccinated he is trying something

i dont see how that will help

tell me how it will help. and punctuate, you're a big boy.

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Four million cases of delta , can't this by itself spark a new variant?

How Viruses Mutate and Create New Variants

As coronavirus variants circulate worldwide, a Tufts researcher explains the mechanisms of how viruses change and why it’s going to keep happening

There are three possibilities—mutations can do nothing, they can impair the virus, or they can facilitate the virus replication. If the virus transmits better, then it will more likely be selected [through evolution] to be dominant. If the virus transmits at the same rate, it’ll still transmit, but if it’s worse at transmitting, it’ll get lost.

We’ve seen in the pandemic that mutations have arisen and then they became really widespread and for almost all of the ones we hear about, it became clear that they have at least slightly better transmission. I don’t think it even has to be dramatically better. It just has to have a slight advantage over the original virus.

What else affects mutations?

The other aspect is that a virus will make hundreds to thousands of copies of itself every time it is in a cell. The chances of getting a mutant is high just because there’s so many replications happening.

Better transmission doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s more virulent, right? It’s just better at replicating and getting into the other cells?

Yes, it just means that the initial step of getting into cells is better. The development of the disease—the pathogenesis—has to do with many other things beside the replication of the virus.

Do variants of original viruses mix with other variants to create all new virus variants?

Each virus genome is alone, but you can imagine situations where you could have two viruses co-infecting the same cell, and in those cases, they might be able to compensate for each other.

There’s definitely evidence that some coronaviruses can recombine, too. It there are two genomes that infect the same cell—just like our genomes are combined during the division of the stem cells—they could recombine into a fully fixed genome as it comes out. Those events might be quite rare, but because the virus replicates in an exponential way, even a rare event has a certain probability of occurring.

Do vaccines for viruses need to be updated when variants arise? We get a new flu vaccine every year because it’s a different strain of the flu. Is that true with all viruses?

Some people are trying to develop a universal influenza vaccine, to try to target the antibody generation toward a part of the molecule that cannot change without making the molecule not work anymore.

With the coronavirus, we’re not that sophisticated. But I think the evidence is that the variants are not escaping the vaccine dramatically. Still, it’s something that people have definitely worried about and it’s possible that we might have to update vaccines.

And of course, that also depends how quickly we can get this vaccination round to complete—how many different variants are going to emerge by the time most people are vaccinated. But I don’t think there’s any evidence that it’s going to be quite like the flu.

How are influenza viruses different from coronaviruses?

They are RNA viruses, but they don’t have the “proofreading” ability that the coronavirus has, so they have a lot of mutations. They definitely seem to have adapted to really take advantage of rapid change; influenza seems to have developed a lifecycle that’s all about changing so much that you never build a complete resistance.

That’s not true for all viruses, though. The coronavirus definitely is not going to be like that. But if it does become endemic and it circulates in the population all the time, then there is a chance that a slightly different virus might emerge and we may need a booster.

Another question is, as people become immune thanks to vaccinations, is that going to be a strong pressure on the virus? Variants may emerge because people are immune to the old virus. Again, that’s much more likely with something like influenza that has a much higher mutation rate, than with the coronavirus.

https://now.tufts.edu/articles/how-viru ... w-variants

[MaxPower]

22 cases of COVID-19 Delta variant confirmed in Jamaica


The Ministry says the positive cases are among the results of 40 of 60 samples sent for testing at the Caribbean Public Health Agency

“The epidemiology and laboratory teams are now doing further analysis to see if there is any particular significant factor related to the 22 identified. The public will be kept updated,” Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton said in a media statement.

The ministry did not indicate when the samples were sent for testing.

https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/new ... ed-jamaica

Hmmm and CAL running flights from Jamaica to New York?

And what plane allyuh feel yall might take to come Trinidad from New York?

A different plane right?

Nice man.

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Update

[Mmoney607]

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7 deaths. What really going on?

[Kenjo]

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7 deaths. What really going on?

Tune in to world news

[aaron17]

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[Duane 3NE 2NR]

COVID Update:
• Tests: 295872 (+921)
• Cases: 42839 (+257)
• Active: 5728 (-40)
• Death: 1215 (+7)
• Recovery: 35896 (+290)
• Vaxxed (1st Dose): 472946 (+5917)
• Vaxxed (2nd Dose): 355822 (+9381)
• Mortality Rate: 2.8%
• Population Tested: 21.1%

[redmanjp]

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7 deaths. What really going on?

i am thinking not enough elderly have been vaccinated. there is perhaps a lot of antivax elderly that dying. they had access to vaccines since April!

[goalpost]

We still on 3 delta variant?

[Dohplaydat]

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7 deaths. What really going on?

i am thinking not enough elderly have been vaccinated. there is perhaps a lot of antivax elderly that dying. they had access to vaccines since April!

That and alot of middle aged persons in relatively poor health as well.

Come end of August, 99% of deaths would have been prevented had they took the vaccine and it would be the victims fault.

[pugboy]

will they start providing stats of deaths unvaxxed or not

[eitech]

will they start providing stats of deaths unvaxxed or not

They not gonna report any “ bad stats” for vaccinated ppl. It will cause more vaccine hesitation of course. And if they do, they will re calculate and say well this person had covid before they were fully vaxxed.

[bluefete]

And the lies continue.

Some wonder why I get really vex about this deliberate agenda: This nasty man is part of that.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick blames Covid surge on 'African Americans who have not been vaccinated'

Dareh Gregorian
Fri, August 20, 2021, 12:50 PM


Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said unvaccinated African Americans — not lax coronavirus precautions in states like his — are responsible for the surge in Covid-19 cases in his state.

"The Covid is spreading, particularly most of the numbers are with the unvaccinated, and the Democrats like to blame Republicans on that," Patrick told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in an interview Thursday night. "Well, the biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated. Last time I checked, over 90 percent of them vote for Democrats in their major cities and major counties, so it's up to the Democrats to get ... as many people vaccinated."

Ingraham had asked Patrick, who has previously blamed undocumented immigrants for the rise in cases, to respond to charges that his and Gov. Greg Abbott's policies are to blame for the spike that has over 12,000 Texans hospitalized.

African Americans, who have had lower rates of vaccinations, make up about 13 percent of the state population and about 16 percent of cases, while whites and Hispanics, who make up more than 80 percent of the population, have accounted for about 70 percent of cases, according to statistics from the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Abbott, who tested positive for the virus earlier this week despite being vaccinated, issued an executive order late last month banning vaccination and mask mandates as case numbers rose in the state despite pushback from local officials and school districts. The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday declined to back the governor's mask mandate ban.

The state has averaged 80 deaths a day over the last seven days, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — its highest seven-day average of Covid deaths since mid-March. Abbott requested five mortuary trailers from the federal government this week in anticipation of an influx of bodies.

Patrick told Ingraham that Democrats are "doing nothing for the African American community," while Republicans are "encouraging people" who want the vaccine to take it. But he added, "we respect the fact if they don't want the vaccination, we're not going to force it on them. That's their individual right."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-lt-gov ... 12724.html

[MaxPower]

Will our black brothers and sisters ever get a break?

[adnj]

And the lies continue.

Some wonder why I get really vex about this deliberate agenda: This nasty man is part of that.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick blames Covid surge on 'African Americans who have not been vaccinated'

Dareh Gregorian
Fri, August 20, 2021, 12:50 PM


Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said unvaccinated African Americans — not lax coronavirus precautions in states like his — are responsible for the surge in Covid-19 cases in his state.

"The Covid is spreading, particularly most of the numbers are with the unvaccinated, and the Democrats like to blame Republicans on that," Patrick told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in an interview Thursday night. "Well, the biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated. Last time I checked, over 90 percent of them vote for Democrats in their major cities and major counties, so it's up to the Democrats to get ... as many people vaccinated."

Ingraham had asked Patrick, who has previously blamed undocumented immigrants for the rise in cases, to respond to charges that his and Gov. Greg Abbott's policies are to blame for the spike that has over 12,000 Texans hospitalized.

African Americans, who have had lower rates of vaccinations, make up about 13 percent of the state population and about 16 percent of cases, while whites and Hispanics, who make up more than 80 percent of the population, have accounted for about 70 percent of cases, according to statistics from the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Abbott, who tested positive for the virus earlier this week despite being vaccinated, issued an executive order late last month banning vaccination and mask mandates as case numbers rose in the state despite pushback from local officials and school districts. The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday declined to back the governor's mask mandate ban.

The state has averaged 80 deaths a day over the last seven days, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — its highest seven-day average of Covid deaths since mid-March. Abbott requested five mortuary trailers from the federal government this week in anticipation of an influx of bodies.

Patrick told Ingraham that Democrats are "doing nothing for the African American community," while Republicans are "encouraging people" who want the vaccine to take it. But he added, "we respect the fact if they don't want the vaccination, we're not going to force it on them. That's their individual right."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-lt-gov ... 12724.html

In Texas, percentage of population vs. percentage of population vaccinated, by race:

Black: 12, 9
White: 41, 38
Hispanic: 40, 35

Hispanics are the largest unvaccinated group by race or ethnicity in Texas. Whites and blacks are the same.

But with 25% of the black population unvaccinated, blacks are disproportionately unvaccinated; Whites 7%, Hispanics 13%.

It depends on how you chose to spin the topic.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-1 ... ethnicity/

[redmanjp]

Israel severe cases in vaxxed and unvaxxed

[PariaMan]

Cannot understand anti vaccine in the face of these statistics

Without knowing the chemistry statistics alone make the decision clear

Israel severe cases in vaxxed and unvaxxed

[ScHoolboySoloQ]

Older folks always criticized our generation (Gen Z) but look what age group causing all the problems and refusing anything science

[K74T]

MoH conference at 11am today, thus no PM media conference.

However any changes in current regulations he will relay to Terry to announce.

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Will our black brothers and sisters ever get a break?

They will when people like this shut their trap.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/farrakhan-calls-the-vaccine-the-white-mans-death-plan

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Two Florida school districts that defied state rules and imposed mask mandates for students have been given 48 hours to reverse course or lose state funding equal to the salaries of their school board members. https://abcn.ws/2Uz7u3h

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Two Florida school districts that defied state rules and imposed mask mandates for students have been given 48 hours to reverse course or lose state funding equal to the salaries of their school board members. https://abcn.ws/2Uz7u3h

Biden Administration Says Federal Funds Can Cover Florida School Board Salaries If DeSantis Defunds Them Over Mask Mandates

TOPLINE
School districts in Florida can pay their leaders’ salaries with federal funding if Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) follows through on his threat to yank some state aid from districts that mandate masks, the U.S. Department of Education said Friday, as public school systems in states like Florida plan to require mask-wearing despite bans from Republican state officials.

KEY FACTS
In a letter to DeSantis and Florida’s education commissioner, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said the governor’s July executive order banning mask mandates in school districts clashes with public health advice and “puts students and staff at risk.”

Cardona applauded some Florida school districts for defying DeSantis’ order, even though DeSantis threatened earlier this week to withhold state aid covering school board members and superintendents’ salaries in those districts.

If DeSantis pulls funding from those districts, Cardona said they can pay board members and superintendents using their share of congressionally approved Covid-19 relief money allocated to schools, effectively replacing the state aid with federal funds.

Cardona penned a similar letter to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Friday, criticizing his decision to bar schools and local governments from mandating masks, and noting that local education bodies that have received federal funds under the American Rescue Plan can use that money for contact tracing and to implement mask policies.

In a statement to Forbes, DeSantis spokesperson Christina Pushaw criticized Cardona for aiming to “use education funding to pay the salaries of elected school board members, who don’t believe parents have a right to choose what’s best for their children.”

Abbott’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2 ... cff4e15b51

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Sri Lanka to impose nationwide lockdown – as it happened

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 021-08-20/

Note well they mostly used sinopharm similar to us

Taken from the article "About a quarter of Sri Lanka’s population has been fully vaccinated, a majority of them with China’s Sinopharm vaccine."

[Mmoney607]

And the lies continue.

Some wonder why I get really vex about this deliberate agenda: This nasty man is part of that.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick blames Covid surge on 'African Americans who have not been vaccinated'

Dareh Gregorian
Fri, August 20, 2021, 12:50 PM


Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said unvaccinated African Americans — not lax coronavirus precautions in states like his — are responsible for the surge in Covid-19 cases in his state.

"The Covid is spreading, particularly most of the numbers are with the unvaccinated, and the Democrats like to blame Republicans on that," Patrick told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in an interview Thursday night. "Well, the biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated. Last time I checked, over 90 percent of them vote for Democrats in their major cities and major counties, so it's up to the Democrats to get ... as many people vaccinated."

Ingraham had asked Patrick, who has previously blamed undocumented immigrants for the rise in cases, to respond to charges that his and Gov. Greg Abbott's policies are to blame for the spike that has over 12,000 Texans hospitalized.

African Americans, who have had lower rates of vaccinations, make up about 13 percent of the state population and about 16 percent of cases, while whites and Hispanics, who make up more than 80 percent of the population, have accounted for about 70 percent of cases, according to statistics from the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Abbott, who tested positive for the virus earlier this week despite being vaccinated, issued an executive order late last month banning vaccination and mask mandates as case numbers rose in the state despite pushback from local officials and school districts. The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday declined to back the governor's mask mandate ban.

The state has averaged 80 deaths a day over the last seven days, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — its highest seven-day average of Covid deaths since mid-March. Abbott requested five mortuary trailers from the federal government this week in anticipation of an influx of bodies.

Patrick told Ingraham that Democrats are "doing nothing for the African American community," while Republicans are "encouraging people" who want the vaccine to take it. But he added, "we respect the fact if they don't want the vaccination, we're not going to force it on them. That's their individual right."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-lt-gov ... 12724.html

In Texas, percentage of population vs. percentage of population vaccinated, by race:

Black: 12, 9
White: 41, 38
Hispanic: 40, 35

Hispanics are the largest unvaccinated group by race or ethnicity in Texas. Whites and blacks are the same.

But with 25% of the black population unvaccinated, blacks are disproportionately unvaccinated; Whites 7%, Hispanics 13%.

It depends on how you chose to spin the topic.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-1 ... ethnicity/

Well those blacks got be Trump supporters because according to CNN, ABC and NBC, only Trump supporters not vaccinated and don't wear mask.

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Well those blacks got be Trump supporters because according to CNN, ABC and NBC, only Trump supporters not vaccinated and don't wear mask.

Where did any network print or say that? Any actual stories to support your story? Otherwise, you're just making sh!t up.

[drchaos]

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58270098

You get a broader immune response after being infected with the virus than vaccination.
Whether you've had Moderna or Pfizer or Oxford-AstraZeneca, your body is learning to spot just one thing - the spike protein.
This is the critical part of the virus to make antibodies to, and the results - by keeping most out of hospital - have been spectacular.
But having the other 28 proteins to target too, would give T-cells far more to go at.
"That means if you had a real humdinger of an infection, you may have better immunity to any new variants that pop up as you have immunity to more than just spike," said Prof Riley.

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Can you tell me how pfizer and moderna ,vaccines made for preventative treatment of a respiratory virus cause inflammation in the heart(myocarditis)?

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58270098

You get a broader immune response after being infected with the virus than vaccination.
Whether you've had Moderna or Pfizer or Oxford-AstraZeneca, your body is learning to spot just one thing - the spike protein.
This is the critical part of the virus to make antibodies to, and the results - by keeping most out of hospital - have been spectacular.
But having the other 28 proteins to target too, would give T-cells far more to go at.
"That means if you had a real humdinger of an infection, you may have better immunity to any new variants that pop up as you have immunity to more than just spike," said Prof Riley.