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

[paid_influencer]

this has been posted right?

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Experienced it today.Safe zones not being enforced

75% capacity is a regulation in name only, nobody will follow dat.

They might fine a business or two just to say it getting enfirced.

Rowley overs covee too

Not even that.Nobody asked for a vaccine status.

[Ripe Chenette]

Experienced it today.Safe zones not being enforced

75% capacity is a regulation in name only, nobody will follow dat.

They might fine a business or two just to say it getting enfirced.

Rowley overs covee too

Not even that.Nobody asked for a vaccine status.

No smart business owner will stop 50% of customers over safe zone laws in a country like this.

[adnj]

this has been posted right?

They're just trying to catch up. They'll do just fine.

[redmanjp]

A seroprevalence study is to be done to determine levels of immunity including natural immunity

[adnj]

New COVID data: South Africa has arrived at the recovery stage of the pandemic

A recently published South African study set out to determine sero-positivity against SARS-CoV-2 before the fourth wave of COVID-19, in which the omicron variant was dominant. Sero-positivity measures the presence of antibodies against the virus; it indicates past infection. The study focused on Gauteng, the country’s economic hub. Ozayr Patel asked Shabir Madhi to unpack the results and explain why the findings suggest that South Africa has reached a turning point in the pandemic.

What we found

The results show the levels of sero-positivity – in other words what percentage of people have antibodies to the virus – among just over 7,000 people from whom samples were taken. From these results the following rates were calculated:

In those under 12 years of age, none of who received a COVID-19 vaccine, 56% showed presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2

In those over 50 it was 80%, including 70% if unvaccinated and 93% if vaccinated

In high density inner city areas the sero-positivity prevalence was 85%

Using the seroprevalence data, together with COVID-19 attributable deaths using excess mortality data from the South African Medical Research Council, the study was also able to impute the risk of dying following infection by SARS-CoV-2 prior to the Omicron wave in South Africa. This infection fatality risk for COVID-19 was 0.57% pre-omicron in Gauteng. This is substantially higher than 0.019% imputed for seasonal flu, which infected one-third of the population each year pre-COVID, calculated using similar methods.

Vaccination coverage: We discovered high levels of hybrid immunity: that is immunity gained from a combination of previous infections plus vaccinations.

At the time of the onset of the omicron wave, 36% of people in Gauteng had at least one dose of the vaccine. This was higher – 61% – in those over the age of 50. (This cohort was responsible for more than 80% of deaths pre-omicron.)

Based on sero-survey, 70% of vaccinated people were also infected pre-omicron. Hence they would have had substantial hybrid immunity, which has been shown to induce a broader repertoire of immune responses against the virus. Such hybrid immunity in South Africa has, however, come at the cost of loss of 300,000 lives based on South African Medical Research Council excess mortality estimates. These are three-fold higher than the official recorded number of deaths.

Based on another study, the hybrid immunity is expected to confer greater protection against infection and mild COVID-19 compared with immunity only from vaccine or natural infection.

https://theconversation.com/new-covid-d ... mic-177933

[alfa]

Experienced it today.Safe zones not being enforced

75% capacity is a regulation in name only, nobody will follow dat.

They might fine a business or two just to say it getting enfirced.

Rowley overs covee too

Not even that.Nobody asked for a vaccine status.

Since Xmas I went to a favorite small restaurant and nobody asking for vaccine stat.

[MaxPower]

Friends,

The vaccines have been proven to be ineffective in many instences, “safe zones” have too many loop holes and inconsistencies and the priority is revenue and to have a good time. Protocols have been breached tremendously.

T&T has failed miserably in this pandemic and Covid did basically what it wanted to do. It burned through the people and the economy and those who got infected and died are long forgotten and those to follow will be the norm.

Allyuh “beat covid” because it was just too mild.

But bet allyuh stink red lame ass dollar, that when the next virus comes around and it is not as forgiving, that allyuh would be caught off guard again and get the wake up call that is overdue.

Continue and nice job T&T.

[Mmoney607]

Friends,

The vaccines have been proven to be ineffective in many instences, “safe zones” have too many loop holes and inconsistencies and the priority is revenue and to have a good time. Protocols have been breached tremendously.

T&T has failed miserably in this pandemic and Covid did basically what it wanted to do. It burned through the people and the economy and those who got infected and died are long forgotten and those to follow will be the norm.

Allyuh “beat covid” because it was just too mild.

But bet allyuh stink red lame ass dollar, that when the next virus comes around and it is not as forgiving, that allyuh would be caught off guard again and get the wake up call that is overdue.

Continue and nice job T&T.

Perfecto Max

[Les Bain]

Friends,

The vaccines have been proven to be ineffective in many instences, “safe zones” have too many loop holes and inconsistencies and the priority is revenue and to have a good time. Protocols have been breached tremendously.

T&T has failed miserably in this pandemic and Covid did basically what it wanted to do. It burned through the people and the economy and those who got infected and died are long forgotten and those to follow will be the norm.

Allyuh “beat covid” because it was just too mild.

But bet allyuh stink red lame ass dollar, that when the next virus comes around and it is not as forgiving, that allyuh would be caught off guard again and get the wake up call that is overdue.

Continue and nice job T&T.

Agreed, Max. I am only surprised that given the average mentality to this pandemic and from seeing the various amateur social media footage that Trinidad didn't make the news as India and Italy had back in 2020/1 with the death toll.

God is a Trini whatever...

[Mmoney607]

Friends,

The vaccines have been proven to be ineffective in many instences, “safe zones” have too many loop holes and inconsistencies and the priority is revenue and to have a good time. Protocols have been breached tremendously.

T&T has failed miserably in this pandemic and Covid did basically what it wanted to do. It burned through the people and the economy and those who got infected and died are long forgotten and those to follow will be the norm.

Allyuh “beat covid” because it was just too mild.

But bet allyuh stink red lame ass dollar, that when the next virus comes around and it is not as forgiving, that allyuh would be caught off guard again and get the wake up call that is overdue.

Continue and nice job T&T.

Agreed, Max. I am only surprised that given the average mentality to this pandemic and from seeing the various amateur social media footage that Trinidad didn't make the news as India and Italy had back in 2020/1 with the death toll.

God is a Trini whatever...

Thing is, we was worse than them but it was never a big deal

[redmanjp]

more evidence for efficacy of Vitamin D. This is a better alternative than a dewormer. Especially for the half the population who unvaxxed.

[hover11]

Friends,

The vaccines have been proven to be ineffective in many instences, “safe zones” have too many loop holes and inconsistencies and the priority is revenue and to have a good time. Protocols have been breached tremendously.

T&T has failed miserably in this pandemic and Covid did basically what it wanted to do. It burned through the people and the economy and those who got infected and died are long forgotten and those to follow will be the norm.

Allyuh “beat covid” because it was just too mild.

But bet allyuh stink red lame ass dollar, that when the next virus comes around and it is not as forgiving, that allyuh would be caught off guard again and get the wake up call that is overdue.

Continue and nice job T&T.

X10000

[redmanjp]

Max I agree with most of what u said except for the part about the vaccines being ineffective. If u look at the deaths broken down between vaxxed and unvaxxed u will see a large discrepancy. More than 3600 have died but most of them could have been saved if they took it. Only the most elderly/sick and frail died despite being vaccinated which also happens with flu as well. And it is a much smaller number. The vaccines have saved thousands who took it and were high risk. Otherwise the death toll would be in the 7-8000 range by now.

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more evidence for efficacy of Vitamin D. This is a better alternative than a dewormer. Especially for the half the population who unvaxxed.

Which means sunlight could work.But that would mean admitting Kamla was right

[redmanjp]

It will have to be prolonged sunlight. Darker skin complexion absorbs it more slowly which is why they tend to be more deficient.

[Ripe Chenette]

It will have to be prolonged sunlight. Darker skin complexion absorbs it more slowly which is why they tend to be more deficient.

Reminds me of a certain advertisement...

[sMASH]

By chance anyone could confirm if u still have to social distance in the religious places, since is full capacity?

[adnj]

Hundreds of COVID trials could provide a deluge of new drugs

Two years into the pandemic, the COVID-19 drugs pipeline is primed to pump out novel treatments — and fresh uses for familiar therapies.

It takes Lawrence Tabak about 15 minutes to rattle off all the potential COVID-19 treatments being tested in the clinical trial programme he oversees: a lengthy, tongue-twisting list that includes drugs to disarm the virus, to soothe inflammation and to stop blood clots. Over the past two years, the ACTIV programme, run by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), has included more than 30 studies — 13 of them ongoing — of therapeutic agents chosen from a list of 800 candidates. Several of the studies are due to report results in the first half of the year.

And that’s just in his programme; hundreds more are in progress around the world. Whether those results are positive or negative, Tabak says, 2022 is poised to provide some much-needed clarity on how best to treat COVID-19. “The next three to four months are, we hope, going to be very exciting,” says Tabak, acting director of the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. “Even when a trial does not show efficacy, that’s still incredibly important information. It tells you what not to use.”

Nearly two years into the pandemic, that information is still badly needed: with more than one million new infections and thousands of deaths around the world each day, COVID-19 continues to strain health-care systems and exact a terrible human toll. Researchers have developed a handful of options — including two oral antiviral drugs, Paxlovid and molnupiravir, authorized in some countries in the past couple of months — that help in certain situations. But gaps remain, and researchers think that this year will bring new drugs and new uses for older drugs, including better treatments for mild COVID-19.



And although vaccines remain the most important way to rein in the pandemic, there is still a desperate need for better therapies to treat people who cannot — or choose not to — access the vaccines, whose immune systems cannot respond fully to vaccination, or who experience breakthrough infections. “The main tool in combating the pandemic is prevention, and the main tool in prevention is vaccination,” says Taher Entezari-Maleki, who studies clinical pharmacy at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in Iran. “But new medications can fill in when vaccines do not work — for example against new variants.”

Over time, researchers have ramped up clinical-trial infrastructure, and repeated surges of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 have ensured a ready pool of potential study participants. The result has been an accelerated drug pipeline, says Tabak (see ‘Bursting pipeline’). “It has been two years, which feels like a long time for everybody,” says Paul Verdin, head of consulting and analytics at the London-based pharmaceutical analytics firm Evaluate. “But in the grand scheme of drug development, that’s not very long.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00562-0

[MaxPower]

Max I agree with most of what u said except for the part about the vaccines being ineffective. If u look at the deaths broken down between vaxxed and unvaxxed u will see a large discrepancy. More than 3600 have died but most of them could have been saved if they took it. Only the most elderly/sick and frail died despite being vaccinated which also happens with flu as well. And it is a much smaller number. The vaccines have saved thousands who took it and were high risk. Otherwise the death toll would be in the 7-8000 range by now.

Agreed

[daring dragoon]

1000 + new infections in the last 2 days alone.
All the time teary saying we waiting on WHO directive to say what vaccine approved etc so how come WHO aint say covid is an endemic an blak baldhead saying we moving forward as if we in an endemic? If we taking matters into we own hands now then we can vaccinate kids 5-11 although the WHO aint approve it an the USA saying kids vaccine basically ineffective.

[Les Bain]

437 new, 7 dead today.

[Mmoney607]

1000 + new infections in the last 2 days alone.
All the time teary saying we waiting on WHO directive to say what vaccine approved etc so how come WHO aint say covid is an endemic an blak baldhead saying we moving forward as if we in an endemic? If we taking matters into we own hands now then we can vaccinate kids 5-11 although the WHO aint approve it an the USA saying kids vaccine basically ineffective.

Realize that it wasn't even the local doctors that make the announcement

[maj. tom]

[pugboy]

hurry and get your dewormer

[K74T]

Holy sh1t look major tom

Speedy recovery!

[daring dragoon]

1000 + new infections in the last 2 days alone.
All the time teary saying we waiting on WHO directive to say what vaccine approved etc so how come WHO aint say covid is an endemic an blak baldhead saying we moving forward as if we in an endemic? If we taking matters into we own hands now then we can vaccinate kids 5-11 although the WHO aint approve it an the USA saying kids vaccine basically ineffective.

Realize that it wasn't even the local doctors that make the announcement

BANGKOK (AP) — The official global death toll from COVID-19 is on the verge of eclipsing 6 million — underscoring that the pandemic, now in its third year, is far from over.

The milestone is the latest tragic reminder of the unrelenting nature of the pandemic even as people are shedding masks, travel is resuming and businesses are reopening around the globe. The death toll, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, stood at 5,996,882 as of Sunday morning and was expected to pass the 6 million mark later in the day.

4th or 5th wave soon in TT.

[redmanjp]

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is blood i seeing dey?

[wing]

By chance anyone could confirm if u still have to social distance in the religious places, since is full capacity?

I assume you mean nightly prayers during Ramadan. From what I have seen, social distancing has pretty much gone out the window. I for one would be very cautious especially with the increased attendance during the Ramadan time.

[K74T]

Day-cares reopened