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

[K74T]

Key Points From the Press Conference Hosted By Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley – Saturday 28th August 2021

- Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley announced that from October 1st, face to face schooling will be available for vaccinated children in Forms 4-6. The Prime Minister indicated that these children will be required to be fully vaccinated, therefore needing to receive their 2nd dose by September 14th - 17th.

- Dr. Rowley also announced that after Government determines that the recent reopening of the Retail Sector does not lead to a significant increase in COVID-19 cases, Places of Worship will be able to reopen around September 6th with some limitations.

- Principal Medical Officer of Institutions. Dr. Maryam Abdool-Richards stated that a worrying trend is being observed, where increasing numbers of children are being hospitalized with COVID-19. Dr. Richards shared that 10 children are currently hospitalized with 8 at the Ward Level, 1 at the HDU level and 1 at the ICU level.

- Minister of Health, Terrence Deyalsingh, stated that to date, 503,239 persons have received their 1st dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, making up 36% of the population with 389,317 receiving both doses. 1,063 persons have received a single dose vaccine putting the total number of completed vaccinations at 390,380 making up 28% of the population.

- Minister Deyalsingh announced that 25% of the eligible school population have been vaccinated to date, however the Minister also noted that the daily number of children being vaccinated has decreased significantly. Minister Deyalsingh appealed to parents to take advantage of the opportunity and get their children vaccinated.

- The Health Minister also announced that the Pfizer Vaccine will now be open to Health Care Workers and Teachers to give them another option, this is due to the vaccines expiring in November. Children however, are still the top priority for these vaccines.

[aaron17]

Are blood clots a new symptom of covid? or that can cause it after you are suffering from it?

It’s always been a known aspect of COVID since early 2020. It became fashionable to mention when the couple incidents happened with the vaccines this year and the amount of People that get it from the vaccine are way less than the ones that get it from the actual virus . And blood clots happened ages before naturally . If you ever had a relative on warfarin .

oh ok.

[hover11]

What about unvaccinated teachers?

[PariaMan]

What about unvaccinated teachers?

[https://sdc-cnn-com]

Live TV 

Unvaccinated, unmasked teacher infected more than half of students in class with Covid-19, CDC reports

By Maggie Fox, CNN

Updated 4:37 PM EDT, Fri August 27, 2021

[https://cdn-cnn-com]

(CNN)An unvaccinated elementary school teacher who took off their mask to read to students ended up infecting more than half of them last May -- and they went on to infect other students, family members and community members, California public health officials reported Friday.
It's a prime example of how easy it is to undermine efforts to protect children too young to be vaccinated, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
The teacher came to work even though they had Covid-19 symptoms and then took off their mask to read to the young students, a team at Marin County Public Health reported in the CDC's weekly report on death and disease. The teacher assumed the symptoms indicated allergies, not infection, the investigators found.

In the classroom of 22 students, 12 became infected -- including eight out of 10 students in the two front rows.

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And that's despite layers of measures intended to prevent transmission of the virus.
"The school required teachers and students to mask while indoors; interviews with parents of infected students suggested that students' adherence to masking and distancing guidelines in line with CDC recommendations was high in class. However, the teacher was reportedly unmasked on occasions when reading aloud in class," the report read.
"Throughout this period, all desks were separated by six feet," it added. "All classrooms had portable high-efficiency particulate air filters and doors and windows were left open."
It wasn't enough to protect the kids.
Eventually, 27 people, including the teacher, were infected. None were seriously ill and all recovered. Those cases that were analyzed involved the Delta variant of coronavirus, although the researchers said they were not necessarily able to test everyone who may have been infected in the outbreak.
The CDC highlighted the case as an example of how schools need to follow all recommendations if they want to protect students and staff.

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"The introduction of the virus into the classroom by a teacher who worked in school, while she was both symptomatic and unvaccinated and who was unmasked when reading aloud to a class, resulted in cases within the classroom, across the school and among families of students and staff in the community," Walensky told a White House Covid-19 briefing Friday.
"We know how to protect our kids in school. We have the tools."
The CDC's guidance for schools lists vaccination as the No. 1 way to protect everyone. "Vaccination is the leading public health prevention strategy to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Promoting vaccination can help schools safely return to in-person learning as well as extracurricular activities and sports," it says.
Kids under 12 are not eligible for vaccination, and the CDC says it's important for the adults around them to get vaccinated to protect them.
Dr. Lisa Santora, deputy health officer for the county, said officials there had been urging teachers to be vaccinated since January, but many had not done it. "We saw firsthand that it wasn't kids who were going to get teachers sick. It was going to be the reverse," Santora told CNN.



Santora said Marin County had organized "Super Saturday" events to encourage teachers and staff to get vaccinated, but some teachers still remain unvaccinated. "Adults are underestimating their risk of hospitalization when they are choosing not to get vaccinated," she told CNN.
She said 90% of people in hospitals with Covid-19 in the county right now are unvaccinated -- and many are between the ages of 30 and 50.
The outbreak at the elementary school was a heads up to the county that the Delta variant was going to make it harder to prevent outbreaks, she said.
"We had a few of the adults who were part of the outbreak -- they were parents of children in school -- they were vaccinated. That was another indication to us that Delta was different," she said.
"Among the five infected adults, one parent and the teacher were unvaccinated; the others were fully vaccinated," the report reads. "The vaccinated adults and one unvaccinated adult were symptomatic with fever, chills, cough, headache, and loss of smell. No other school staff members reported becoming ill."

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The county was able to conduct an intensive contact tracing operation that painted a good picture of what happened. Several children appeared to have been infected during a sleepover, and some from the infected teacher's class appear to have infected siblings.
Testing of most of the children who were exposed was key, because many of the children never developed symptoms.
"The school was on point with all of their mitigation strategies," Santora said. "I think if it wasn't Delta, I don't think we would have seen this."
Nonetheless, the CDC concluded, schools can safely open for in person classes if they take care.
Los Angeles County officials studied cases in their schools from September to March. They counted 463 cases among students in that time that could be linked back to a school exposure, and 3,927 among staff who were back in person. This was a far lower case rate than in the community at large during the same period, they reported.
"In schools with safety protocols in place for prevention and containment, case rates in children and adolescents were 3.4 times lower during the winter peak compared with rates in the community," they wrote.
"This analysis reflects transmission patterns before the more transmissible SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant became predominant in the United States. A multipronged prevention strategy, including masking, physical distancing, testing, and most recently vaccination of children and adolescents aged 12 years and above, will remain critical to reducing transmission as more students return to the classroom," they added.
"These findings from a large and diverse county present preliminary evidence that schools provided a relatively safe environment during the 2020-21 school year."

[hover11]

What about unvaccinated teachers?

[https://sdc-cnn-com]

Live TV 

Unvaccinated, unmasked teacher infected more than half of students in class with Covid-19, CDC reports

By Maggie Fox, CNN

Updated 4:37 PM EDT, Fri August 27, 2021

[https://cdn-cnn-com]

(CNN)An unvaccinated elementary school teacher who took off their mask to read to students ended up infecting more than half of them last May -- and they went on to infect other students, family members and community members, California public health officials reported Friday.
It's a prime example of how easy it is to undermine efforts to protect children too young to be vaccinated, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
The teacher came to work even though they had Covid-19 symptoms and then took off their mask to read to the young students, a team at Marin County Public Health reported in the CDC's weekly report on death and disease. The teacher assumed the symptoms indicated allergies, not infection, the investigators found.

In the classroom of 22 students, 12 became infected -- including eight out of 10 students in the two front rows.

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And that's despite layers of measures intended to prevent transmission of the virus.
"The school required teachers and students to mask while indoors; interviews with parents of infected students suggested that students' adherence to masking and distancing guidelines in line with CDC recommendations was high in class. However, the teacher was reportedly unmasked on occasions when reading aloud in class," the report read.
"Throughout this period, all desks were separated by six feet," it added. "All classrooms had portable high-efficiency particulate air filters and doors and windows were left open."
It wasn't enough to protect the kids.
Eventually, 27 people, including the teacher, were infected. None were seriously ill and all recovered. Those cases that were analyzed involved the Delta variant of coronavirus, although the researchers said they were not necessarily able to test everyone who may have been infected in the outbreak.
The CDC highlighted the case as an example of how schools need to follow all recommendations if they want to protect students and staff.

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"The introduction of the virus into the classroom by a teacher who worked in school, while she was both symptomatic and unvaccinated and who was unmasked when reading aloud to a class, resulted in cases within the classroom, across the school and among families of students and staff in the community," Walensky told a White House Covid-19 briefing Friday.
"We know how to protect our kids in school. We have the tools."
The CDC's guidance for schools lists vaccination as the No. 1 way to protect everyone. "Vaccination is the leading public health prevention strategy to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Promoting vaccination can help schools safely return to in-person learning as well as extracurricular activities and sports," it says.
Kids under 12 are not eligible for vaccination, and the CDC says it's important for the adults around them to get vaccinated to protect them.
Dr. Lisa Santora, deputy health officer for the county, said officials there had been urging teachers to be vaccinated since January, but many had not done it. "We saw firsthand that it wasn't kids who were going to get teachers sick. It was going to be the reverse," Santora told CNN.



Santora said Marin County had organized "Super Saturday" events to encourage teachers and staff to get vaccinated, but some teachers still remain unvaccinated. "Adults are underestimating their risk of hospitalization when they are choosing not to get vaccinated," she told CNN.
She said 90% of people in hospitals with Covid-19 in the county right now are unvaccinated -- and many are between the ages of 30 and 50.
The outbreak at the elementary school was a heads up to the county that the Delta variant was going to make it harder to prevent outbreaks, she said.
"We had a few of the adults who were part of the outbreak -- they were parents of children in school -- they were vaccinated. That was another indication to us that Delta was different," she said.
"Among the five infected adults, one parent and the teacher were unvaccinated; the others were fully vaccinated," the report reads. "The vaccinated adults and one unvaccinated adult were symptomatic with fever, chills, cough, headache, and loss of smell. No other school staff members reported becoming ill."

[data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http%3A//www]


The county was able to conduct an intensive contact tracing operation that painted a good picture of what happened. Several children appeared to have been infected during a sleepover, and some from the infected teacher's class appear to have infected siblings.
Testing of most of the children who were exposed was key, because many of the children never developed symptoms.
"The school was on point with all of their mitigation strategies," Santora said. "I think if it wasn't Delta, I don't think we would have seen this."
Nonetheless, the CDC concluded, schools can safely open for in person classes if they take care.
Los Angeles County officials studied cases in their schools from September to March. They counted 463 cases among students in that time that could be linked back to a school exposure, and 3,927 among staff who were back in person. This was a far lower case rate than in the community at large during the same period, they reported.
"In schools with safety protocols in place for prevention and containment, case rates in children and adolescents were 3.4 times lower during the winter peak compared with rates in the community," they wrote.
"This analysis reflects transmission patterns before the more transmissible SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant became predominant in the United States. A multipronged prevention strategy, including masking, physical distancing, testing, and most recently vaccination of children and adolescents aged 12 years and above, will remain critical to reducing transmission as more students return to the classroom," they added.
"These findings from a large and diverse county present preliminary evidence that schools provided a relatively safe environment during the 2020-21 school year."

It's not like you can stop them from working though what will happen to them if they only want vaccinated children in the classroom. Based on a local article last week the PM said vaccinated and unvaccinated must coexist in the classroom now there is a change of tongue hmm

[adnj]

You never heard about children in hospital before the vaccine was available to them. All of a sudden children are there? What changed? Everyone understands doctor patient confidentiality, however age is an issue to disclose now.... I smell BS

Exactly. Children in hospital due to vaccines not COVID-19.
All yuh play up and send all yuh children for vaccines.

You have no evidence to support your statement.

[hover11]

3 out of the 668 deaths from June to now were fully vaccinated. Stated in the press conference today

[DMan7]

3 out of the 668 deaths from June to now were fully vaccinated. Stated in the press conference today

More reason to take the chook. Roll up your sleeves...

[hover11]

3 out of the 668 deaths from June to now were fully vaccinated. Stated in the press conference today

More reason to take the chook. Roll up your sleeves...

You can still die with the jab regardless

[DMan7]

3 out of the 668 deaths from June to now were fully vaccinated. Stated in the press conference today

More reason to take the chook. Roll up your sleeves...

You can still die with the jab regardless

[gastly369]

3 out of the 668 deaths from June to now were fully vaccinated. Stated in the press conference today

More reason to take the chook. Roll up your sleeves...

You can still die with the jab regardless

[hover11]

3 out of the 668 deaths from June to now were fully vaccinated. Stated in the press conference today

More reason to take the chook. Roll up your sleeves...

You can still die with the jab regardless

Yea the 3 that were fully vaccinated and died were probably laughing like that too

[The_Honourable]

3 out of the 668 deaths from June to now were fully vaccinated. Stated in the press conference today

More reason to take the chook. Roll up your sleeves...

You can still die with the jab regardless

This was exactly my reaction

[PariaMan]

3 out of the 668 deaths from June to now were fully vaccinated. Stated in the press conference today

More reason to take the chook. Roll up your sleeves...

You can still die with the jab regardless

Yea the 3 that were fully vaccinated and died were probably laughing like that too

12000 people die a year I trinidad from things other than covid if we were to vaccinate the whole country in an instant the same 12000 will die and they would have been fully vaccinated

Covid vaccine does not vaccinate you from heart attack , stroke and cancer

[sam1978]

3 out of the 668 deaths from June to now were fully vaccinated. Stated in the press conference today

More reason to take the chook. Roll up your sleeves...

You can still die with the jab regardless

Yea the 3 that were fully vaccinated and died were probably laughing like that too

12000 people die a year I trinidad from things other than covid if we were to vaccinate the whole country in an instant the same 12000 will die and they would have been fully vaccinated

Covid vaccine does not vaccinate you from heart attack , stroke and cancer

…..and stupidity.

[DMan7]

I think I know how old this hover guy is, it's in his name...

[PariaMan]

Maybe it's his IQ.

Based on the statistics àlone and the results of countries with high vaccine rate the only option is to get vaccinated asap.

I think I know how old this hover guy is, it's in his name...

[hover11]

I think I know how old this hover guy is, it's in his name...

With that logic we should apply the same to yours...guess you should respect your elders

[DMan7]

I think I know how old this hover guy is, it's in his name...

With that logic we should apply the same to yours...guess you should respect your elders

I ain't the one spouting nonsense on a daily on here

[widdyphuck]

Are there any side effects of taking the vaccine and my daily usage of horny goat weed right after?

[FrankChag]

3 out of the 668 deaths from June to now were fully vaccinated. Stated in the press conference today

More reason to take the chook. Roll up your sleeves...

You can still die with the jab regardless

Yea the 3 that were fully vaccinated and died were probably laughing like that too

12000 people die a year I trinidad from things other than covid if we were to vaccinate the whole country in an instant the same 12000 will die and they would have been fully vaccinated

Covid vaccine does not vaccinate you from heart attack , stroke and cancer

…..and stupidity.

21 heartbreaking stories of people who regret not getting a COVID-19 vaccine



https://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/r ... 378317.php

[Mmoney607]

The vaccine failed those 3 citizens. We were told that the vaccine offered 100% protection against death. If you can still die with the vaccine, what's the point?

[FrankChag]

The vaccine failed those 3 citizens. We were told that the vaccine offered 100% protection against death. If you can still die with the vaccine, what's the point?

Okay, well would you rather die suffocating or with some heart condition...

[Les Bain]

Lewwe pause the arguments with the forum ding dongs for a minute....

Missed the press conference today and i not hearing any post conference grumbling. I take it that our Political Mandingo didn't relax or reopen anything?

[DTAC]

The vaccine failed those 3 citizens. We were told that the vaccine offered 100% protection against death. If you can still die with the vaccine, what's the point?

Okay, well would you rather die suffocating or with some heart condition...

Um... neither.

[DMan7]

Looks like Hover went to take the vaccine.

[ed360123]

The vaccine failed those 3 citizens. We were told that the vaccine offered 100% protection against death. If you can still die with the vaccine, what's the point?

No one ever said that the vaccine was 100% effective. No medication is. Yes, you can still die vaccinated but your chances of that happening are *significantly* reduced. I don't see what's so hard to understand about that.

[adnj]

The vaccine failed those 3 citizens. We were told that the vaccine offered 100% protection against death. If you can still die with the vaccine, what's the point?

No one ever said that the vaccine was 100% effective. No medication is. Yes, you can still die vaccinated but your chances of that happening are *significantly* reduced. I don't see what's so hard to understand about that.

What was said:

Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram on Saturday said the three had severe comorbidities which possibly contributed to their deaths even though they were fully vaccinated.

“We had three fully vaccinated persons out of the 668 giving us a per cent of .45 of all deaths that would have been vaccinated. Meaning, of the cases that would have died from June 8 to present, 668, 99.45 per cent were unvaccinated, which is what the data tells us from across the world,” Parasaram said on Saturday.

https://newsday.co.tt/2021/08/28/chief- ... f-covid19/

99.5% of the deaths during the same period were unvaccinated.

[hover11]

Looks like Hover went to take the vaccine.

Not a sheep , so no that ain't me. I will never take that vaccine , guess I'm part of the majority of the population unvaccinated

[hover11]

The vaccine failed those 3 citizens. We were told that the vaccine offered 100% protection against death. If you can still die with the vaccine, what's the point?

No one ever said that the vaccine was 100% effective. No medication is. Yes, you can still die vaccinated but your chances of that happening are *significantly* reduced. I don't see what's so hard to understand about that.

What was said:

Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram on Saturday said the three had severe comorbidities which possibly contributed to their deaths even though they were fully vaccinated.

“We had three fully vaccinated persons out of the 668 giving us a per cent of .45 of all deaths that would have been vaccinated. Meaning, of the cases that would have died from June 8 to present, 668, 99.45 per cent were unvaccinated, which is what the data tells us from across the world,” Parasaram said on Saturday.

https://newsday.co.tt/2021/08/28/chief- ... f-covid19/

99.5% of the deaths during the same period were unvaccinated.

Take note, how they disseminate information, the 3 that died had co morbidities that not breaking doctor patient confidentiality but you can't even give the ages of the alleged children in hospital care.Make it make sense