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Penguin wrote:wtf wrote:Nope. It's persons in the workplace spreading it to their coworkers.Penguin wrote:MaxPower wrote:wtf wrote:Long story short when will things get better.
When Trinis start taking things seriously.
Full Stop.
Does anyone know if the majority of persons getting ill are those who breached the covid regulations?
I just wonder is it that persons were careless and went for a small lime, who didn't wear their mask properly? Or is it a case where these people were obeying rules and still picked it up.
How do we know this is true?
Is spread in offices common? Where I work, we're currently on rotation, and there's no policy stating we have to wear masks unless we're interacting with a customer. The rotation is so that we can all sit more than 6ft apart, so no need for mask-wearing.
Numb3r4 wrote:In light of the US sending those field hospital tents, why didn't our folks do that here in the earlies at our stadia?
Why did we opt for contact tracing instead of mass testing?
pugboy wrote:most likely surplus as usa pulling out of afghanistan so loads of extra stuff
their afghan bases are basically cities
Penguin wrote:Does anyone know if the majority of persons getting ill are those who breached the covid regulations?
I just wonder is it that persons were careless and went for a small lime, who didn't wear their mask properly? Or is it a case where these people were obeying rules and still picked it up.
Trinidad is projected to have the same number of cumulative reported Covid-19 deaths as Guyana by August 1st at 71 deaths per 100k persons. That will be twice the rate of India at that time. Jamaica will be less than India with Barbados below Jamaica.Habit7 wrote:
adnj wrote:Trinidad is projected to have the same number of cumulative reported Covid-19 deaths as Guyana by August 1st at 71 deaths per 100k persons. That will be twice the rate of India at that time. Jamaica will be less than India with Barbados below Jamaica.Habit7 wrote:WhatsApp Image 2021-05-12 at 21.11.49.jpeg
Brazil is projected to have a cumulative rate of 248 deaths per 100k person by August 1st.
Habit7 wrote:WhatsApp Image 2021-05-12 at 21.11.49.jpeg
China considers mixing vaccines to bolster efficacy
Disease control centre makes first public admission over effectiveness of domestic jabs
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has raised the prospect of mixing vaccines and varying doses to boost efficacy, the first time a government body has acknowledged concerns over the effectiveness of homegrown jabs.
Gao Fu, CDC head, told a conference on Saturday that the agency was “considering how to solve the problem that the efficacy of existing vaccines is not high”, according to local media. Gao proposed mixing different vaccines as well as amending the sequence of doses, such as changing the number and quantity of doses, and the interval between them.
Any new strategy will have ramifications for the more than 20 countries that China said it was supplying in mostly bilateral “vaccine diplomacy” deals.
As of March, China had supplied 40m doses to countries across the globe, including Brazil, Serbia and the United Arab Emirates, prompting the US and its allies to launch their own drive to supply 1bn doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine to south-east Asian nations.
Chile, which has relied on China’s Sinovac vaccine for its inoculation campaign, is in the midst of another Covid-19 wave from new variants. The country has administered 62 doses per 100 residents, according to the Financial Times vaccine tracker, the third-highest rate in the world.
A recent study of the effectiveness of Chile’s vaccination programme found the efficacy of a single dose of the Sinovac jab was just 3 per cent, compared with 56 per cent with two shots. However, local health experts have not linked the latest wave to the vaccine’s efficacy rate.
Social-media posts on Gao’s remarks were swiftly censored, according to Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
“It is the first time . . . a government official publicly admitted that the protection rate is a concern in the vaccination drive,” Huang added. China had administered 65m doses across the country by the middle of March.
Unlike other vaccine producers, China’s manufacturers have not published their phase 3 trial data, leading to accusations of a lack of transparency over the vaccine’s effectiveness on different groups.
For now, the main jabs approved for use in China are the traditional “inactivated virus” vaccines produced by Sinopharm, Sinovac and other domestic groups.
Sinopharm claims a 79 per cent efficacy rate, similar to those achieved by AstraZeneca in its US trials. However, while AstraZeneca revised down its rates after facing criticism for releasing incomplete data, neither Sinopharm nor any of its Chinese peers have released phase 3 data for public scrutiny.
Peter English, a retired communicable disease control consultant at Public Health England, said it was “astonishing” that phase 3 trial data for the Chinese vaccines had not yet been published.
“We have little information on how effective these vaccines are,” he said, adding efficacy data against variants of concern was needed. Still, English said it was “interesting” that China was considering mixing and matching vaccines after moves from France and Germany to do so following safety concerns about the Oxford/AstraZeneca shot.
Sinovac Biotech’s CoronaVac vaccine has an overall efficacy rate of 51 per cent among people aged between 18 and 60, according to documents published by a Hong Kong panel of experts.
However, CoronaVac phase 1 and 2 data published in The Lancet found the shots were “safe and well tolerated”.
Gao also warned that reopening China’s borders to foreigners, who have been barred from entering the country since March last year, posed a risk to elderly people, who have not yet been vaccinated.
The timing of relaxing border restrictions will affect attendees at Beijing’s Winter Olympic Games in February 2022.
adnj wrote:Trinidad is projected to have the same number of cumulative reported Covid-19 deaths as Guyana by August 1st at 71 deaths per 100k persons. That will be twice the rate of India at that time. Jamaica will be less than India with Barbados below Jamaica.Habit7 wrote:WhatsApp Image 2021-05-12 at 21.11.49.jpeg
Brazil is projected to have a cumulative rate of 248 deaths per 100k person by August 1st.
Gem_in_i wrote:Certain companies sending out essentials letter. They know something we dont?
shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Plenty new tuners jumping out in this thread oui...
Anyways up in the east, nurses etc who are on vaca are being called out to work. Well we see why! There were deaths at SGGH due to c19. These people didnt even make it into the parralel health system. Yall noticed how they magically stopped posting the number of people with the P1 right.
I'll be back lil later
ST Auto wrote:Essential letters out since mondayGem_in_i wrote:Certain companies sending out essentials letter. They know something we dont?
bluefete wrote:shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Plenty new tuners jumping out in this thread oui...
Anyways up in the east, nurses etc who are on vaca are being called out to work. Well we see why! There were deaths at SGGH due to c19. These people didnt even make it into the parralel health system. Yall noticed how they magically stopped posting the number of people with the P1 right.
I'll be back lil later
Correct. And P! seems to be the major cause of death right now.
SoE or Curfew should have been done this week. What is the government waiting on? We are our own worst enemies.
Efficacy of government actions during Covid-19 pandemic (decreasing)aaron17 wrote:Curfew...just like last year:
- decreased time during day hours ( may cause crowding and rush in groceries)
- police can stop you unless you have an essential letter for work.
- you would have to go to the grocery in your area only.( police can question you and send you back)
- work time may decrease too /half day etc.
Anything more to add?
pugboy wrote:notice any time rowlee start a sentence with "I am not prepared to do...."
that is his pride kicking in
wtf wrote:Morgue in South full with dead COVID-19 bodies. Can't take anymore.
You are sure right. That would be a problem and anything is possible in Trinidad.Dizzy28 wrote:I would hope they didn't full the morgue with living bodies!!wtf wrote:Morgue in South full with dead COVID-19 bodies. Can't take anymore.
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