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

[hover11]

If that new SA variant start spreading rapidly it would be like a brand new pandemic and we will have to close the border or quarantine even vaccinated ppl and a next lockdown if cases confirmed here.

i doubt. they didnt do it for delta.

You do know the SA variant is a whole new ball game and evades vaccine immunity right

hover, stfu

Learn to use Google comparing delta with the SA variant what a dunce

[widdyphuck]

Trinidad health system will be overwhelmed by next week.

His speech can't save us at this point.

[st7]

If that new SA variant start spreading rapidly it would be like a brand new pandemic and we will have to close the border or quarantine even vaccinated ppl and a next lockdown if cases confirmed here.

i doubt. they didnt do it for delta.

You do know the SA variant is a whole new ball game and evades vaccine immunity right

hover, stfu

Learn to use Google comparing delta with the SA variant what a dunce

k

[DMan7]

If that new SA variant start spreading rapidly it would be like a brand new pandemic and we will have to close the border or quarantine even vaccinated ppl and a next lockdown if cases confirmed here.

i doubt. they didnt do it for delta.

You do know the SA variant is a whole new ball game and evades vaccine immunity right

hover, stfu

[st7]

Trinidad health system will be overwhelmed by next week.

His speech can't save us at this point.

exactly... the unvaxxed gonna keep unvaxxing about the place. fa a la la la la la la la

[j.o.e]

If that new SA variant start spreading rapidly it would be like a brand new pandemic and we will have to close the border or quarantine even vaccinated ppl and a next lockdown if cases confirmed here.

i doubt. they didnt do it for delta.

You do know the SA variant is a whole new ball game and evades vaccine immunity right

This isn’t confirmed. Also panic sells, the media loves it.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

If that new SA variant start spreading rapidly it would be like a brand new pandemic and we will have to close the border or quarantine even vaccinated ppl and a next lockdown if cases confirmed here.

i doubt. they didnt do it for delta.

South Africa to be put on England’s travel red list over new Covid variant
Flights from six countries will be banned as officials review travel measures after scientists voice concern over variant

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... ern-africa

[hover11]

If that new SA variant start spreading rapidly it would be like a brand new pandemic and we will have to close the border or quarantine even vaccinated ppl and a next lockdown if cases confirmed here.

i doubt. they didnt do it for delta.

You do know the SA variant is a whole new ball game and evades vaccine immunity right

This isn’t confirmed. Also panic sells, the media loves it.

We will wait for WHO to eventually confirm it... a variant that evades vaccine immunity is not a matter of if but when

[widdyphuck]

Rowley should stop purchasing vaccines but purchase caskets instead.
His appeals to trinis won't work.

[hover11]

Meanwhile what went in one ear came out the next and avenue will be pumping tomorrow into this weekend, zesser parties will continue as scheduled and bars will continue to be ram out.....trinis do what you do best don't study nothing

[MaxPower]

Rowley should stop purchasing vaccines but purchase caskets instead.
His appeals to trinis won't work.

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Pine box

[st7]

Meanwhile what went in one ear came out the next and avenue will be pumping tomorrow into this weekend, zesser parties will continue as scheduled and bars will continue to be ram out.....trinis do what you do best don't study nothing

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that's how u does sound

[triniterribletim]

So long as borders don't close, I'm happy like pappy. Don't jackass the scene, dear friends and vaxx early and vaxx often.

[redmanjp]

Right now no person from South Africa vaxxed or not should come in without quarantine.

[hover11]

Right now no person from South Africa vaxxed or not should come in without quarantine.

We tried that with China pre pandemic didn't work out too well

[paid_influencer]

please don't call it the "South African variant". It's been discovered in SA because they have the facilities to sequence it. The first case was detected in Botswana. B.1.1.529 might be at even higher levels outside South Africa.

and it has a high degree of immune escape. that's the entire reason scientists (scientists, not journalists) that follow the variants are scared shitless over it. It means the protection we get from a previous Delta infection or vaccine-based protection does not cover it (and vice versa).

People are calling this "SARS-CoV-3," I don't know if that's hyperbole or not but the point is this variant no longer competes with other SARS-CoV-2 variants. It can co-circulate along side Delta, infecting and killing right along side it.

[hover11]

please don't call it the "South African variant". It's been discovered in SA because they have the facilities to sequence it. The first case was detected in Botswana. B.1.1.529 might be at even higher levels outside South Africa.

and it has a high degree of immune escape. that's the entire reason scientists (scientists, not journalists) that follow the variants are scared shitless over it. It means the protection we get from a previous Delta infection or vaccine-based protection does not cover it (and vice versa).

People are calling this "SARS-CoV-3," I don't know if that's hyperbole or not but the point is this variant no longer competes with other SARS-CoV-2 variants. It can co-circulate along side Delta, infecting and killing right along side it.

Ppl will say you're panicking

[adnj]

[BpWHO calls special meeting to discuss new Covid variant found in South Africa with 'a large number of mutations'[/b]

The B.1.1.529 variant contains multiple mutations associated with increased antibody resistance, which may reduce the effectiveness of vaccines, along with mutations that generally make it more contagious, according to slides he presented at the briefing. Other mutations in the new variant haven't been seen until now, so scientists don't yet know whether they are significant or will change how the virus behaves, according to the presentation.

The variant has spread rapidly through the Gauteng province, which contains the country's largest city of Johannesburg. 

"Especially when the spike happens in Gauteng, everybody travels in and out of Gauteng from all corners of South Africa. So it's a given that in the next few days, the beginning of rising positivity rate and numbers is going to be happening. It's a matter of days and weeks before we see that," South Africa Minister of Health Joe Phaahla said during the briefing.

The variant has also been detected in Botswana and Hong Kong, Phaahla said. 

"Right now, researchers are getting together to understand where these mutations are in the spike protein and the furin cleavage site, and what that potentially may mean for our diagnostics or therapeutics and our vaccines," Van Kerkhove said. She said there are fewer than 100 full genome sequences of the new mutation.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/11/25/who ... tions.html

[paid_influencer]

well it is possible our NPIs (masks, social distancing, etc) could work and it dies out naturally. Let's hope.

The problem is the biomass of SARS-CoV-2 is so damn huge now that at some point somewhere in the world it will happen, and probably sooner than we think.

[paid_influencer]

Ppl will say you're panicking

yea that's the definition of normalcy bias.

[zoom rader]

Rowlair just fooled an entire nation

[eitech]

Rowlair just fooled an entire nation

Nope. Only those who were already fooled

[FrankChag]

We're movin' on up...

back to "normal"
-- because we can't lose another year of (downtown) Xmas sales...
-- because instead of "transform", we revert to stupid-as-usual.
-- because "I rather die than trust a doctor or rowley"

sigh.. "I'm surrounded by ##s ..."

https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?location=Trinidad+and+Tobago

[Dohplaydat]

I was wrong, we was 2nd

[matr1x]

All of this because employers and government chose to not be flexible with work situations.


But we hadda keep them venes here, eh?

[daring dragoon]

money better than lives. why have a cold storage warehouse in central to store bodies if only 8, 10, 4, 6 persons dying from covid all the while? most funeral homes can manage that with so many funeral homes in TT. they fact they want a WAREHOUSE means all the funeral homes overwhelmed and cannot store the AMOUNT of DEAD BODIES coming out of covid and other dying persons. when someone at MOH said to me wednesday before lunch was 50 people done dead from covid but only 11 deaths were reported to media. there are more dead from covid that what is told to us and the warehouse should prove it.

[Dohplaydat]

money better than lives. why have a cold storage warehouse in central to store bodies if only 8, 10, 4, 6 persons dying from covid all the while? most funeral homes can manage that with so many funeral homes in TT. they fact they want a WAREHOUSE means all the funeral homes overwhelmed and cannot store the AMOUNT of DEAD BODIES coming out of covid and other dying persons. when someone at MOH said to me wednesday before lunch was 50 people done dead from covid but only 11 deaths were reported to media. there are more dead from covid that what is told to us and the warehouse should prove it.

50 dead could be correct, but probably not 50 dead from Covid.

I know this government does not want to look bad so hiding and manipulating deaths is possible.

Simultaneously the woke crew saying the medical fraternity classing and and everything as a Covid death.

My take, our Covid deaths are fairly accurate but it might be slightly underestimated if anything.

[aaron17]

I was wrong, we was 2nd

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Everyone(country) is first in their own thing for once.

[aaron17]

For those who took their first shot and missed their second. Do they have to back and get their first shot again to get their second?

[Kenjo]

For those who took their first shot and missed their second. Do they have to back and get their first shot again to get their second?

Just go in an done . It’s only so many permutations . Comorbidities , what vaccine you took , many modifiable and non-modifiable factors . Courts megastore even has vaccines