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

[DMan7]

^People does still follow that?

[redmanjp]

^People does still follow that?

why not? omicron still much more deadly than flu. at least until everyone has immunity. flu deaths were like 1 per week. pre covid we had like 44 flu eaths for a whole year. so 1500 deaths for this year is still not something to ignore because thats 5000 dead by year end, though i hope we reach the level of immunity before that such that it reaches to no more than 1 a day, or perhaps days where there aren't any deaths.

[daring dragoon]

nobody studying covid any more, it now about gas ,water and flour increase in prices and we forgot about the 4 murdered divers.

[adnj]

nobody studying covid any more, it now about gas ,water and flour increase in prices and we forgot about the 4 murdered divers.

Some people studied it, couldn't make sense out of it and went right to back what they know: chicken, fish, pepper, and chips.

In case you didn't pick that up, you qualify as "some people."

[Dizzy28]

Is our COVID anniversary today or tomorrow??

First case of Covid19 in Trinidad has been confirmed
https://www.cnc3.co.tt/livestream/

The infected person came into Trinidad on Monday night and alerted the Ministry of Health on Wednesday 11th. Contract tracing started on Wednesday 11th.

52 year old man came in on a flight from Geneva, family is in isolation.
Mild case. Patient will be transferred to Caura Hospital.
Ministry of Health is monitoring the situation

[hover11]

https://abcn.ws/3t0z2wP

China has ordered a lockdown of the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area.

Where is the new variant

[pugboy]

who remembers several police cars coming to pick you up with ambulance,
blocking off a whole street
neighbours peeping out

Is our COVID anniversary today or tomorrow??

First case of Covid19 in Trinidad has been confirmed
https://www.cnc3.co.tt/livestream/

The infected person came into Trinidad on Monday night and alerted the Ministry of Health on Wednesday 11th. Contract tracing started on Wednesday 11th.

52 year old man came in on a flight from Geneva, family is in isolation.
Mild case. Patient will be transferred to Caura Hospital.
Ministry of Health is monitoring the situation

[Dizzy28]

[alfa]

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.

Asja has issues a statement which deemed that full capacity in religious institutions means that social distancing is not necessary for when you line up to pray. Not sure if all mosques are doing it but saw it today, shoulder to shoulder for the prayer line. But you still need to wear a mask and sanitize etc

[redmanjp]

Is our COVID anniversary today or tomorrow??

First case of Covid19 in Trinidad has been confirmed
https://www.cnc3.co.tt/livestream/

The infected person came into Trinidad on Monday night and alerted the Ministry of Health on Wednesday 11th. Contract tracing started on Wednesday 11th.

52 year old man came in on a flight from Geneva, family is in isolation.
Mild case. Patient will be transferred to Caura Hospital.
Ministry of Health is monitoring the situation

may be tomorrow.? however its the 2nd anniversary of the WHO declaration of a Pandemic. i think we announced the 1st case here the day after.

[redmanjp]

Omicron has reduced our death rate to approx. 0.5 to 1%. though vaccination and some natural immunity would be a factor as well.

[redmanjp]

Even mild covid can cause brain shrinkage in area that deals with smell

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220311/Mild-SARS-CoV-2-infection-leads-to-tissue-damage-and-shrinkage-in-brain-areas-related-to-smell.aspx

Using the UK Biobank resource, we were in a unique position to look at changes that took place in the brain following mild—as opposed to more moderate or severe—SARS-CoV-2 infection. Despite the infection being mild for 96% of our participants, we saw a greater loss of grey matter volume, and greater tissue damage in the infected participants, on average 4.5 months after infection. They also showed greater decline in their mental abilities to perform complex tasks, and this mental worsening was partly related to these brain abnormalities. All these negative effects were more marked at older ages. A key question for future brain imaging studies is to see if this brain tissue damage resolves over the longer term."

[sMASH]

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.

Asja has issues a statement which deemed that full capacity in religious institutions means that social distancing is not necessary for when you line up to pray. Not sure if all mosques are doing it but saw it today, shoulder to shoulder for the prayer line. But you still need to wear a mask and sanitize etc

nice, tnx.... i will still stay away for a week or two, but in time for ramadan, this covid will reallly be over.

[Dizzy28]

[redmanjp]

next step for adjustment of covid regulations (based on science and not just cuz ' we fedup of covid')- remove outdoor mask requirement except in crowds - outdoors are generally much safer than indoors. and based on this it means outdoor dining should be allowed as well outside of safe zone regulations (i.e. unvaxxed can dine!)

allow persons with natural immunity access to safe zones.

[MaxPower]

Terrance weeps again….

[adnj]

WHO Exploring When and How to Declare End of Covid Emergency

“The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Covid-19 is looking at the criteria needed to declare the public health emergency of international concern as terminated,” the agency said in an email. “As of now, we are not there yet.”

Many nations around the world have already taken steps to return to more normal social behaviors, relaxing masking and quarantine guidelines, and opening borders to travel. Still, many countries in Asia are reporting record levels of transmission, and in Germany cases recently rebounded back near record levels. There have been more than 10 million Covid cases and 52,000 deaths in the past week, the WHO said. 

Researchers have also warned that even if Covid-19 cases fall to lower levels, the disease is still likely to cause thousands of deaths annually, not unlike other endemic illnesses such as malaria and tuberculosis. And the potential for new, dangerous variants is unpredictable.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... -emergency

[redmanjp]

That would mean ending the EUA licenses as well for the vaccines treatments and other things

[matr1x]

Happy covidesarry!

[alfa]

Terrance weeps again….

Man could cry more than Jimmy swaggath

[adnj]

Happy covidesarry!

No again. You can't seem to get shitt right.

https://www.opm.gov.tt/tt-records-first ... -covid-19/

[redmanjp]

Terrance weeps again….

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/03/12/health-minister-weeps-hugs-hospital-worker/

[redmanjp]

however

i've wondered why cases not exploding like in many other countries - so is not just ppl refusing to test, but others being turned away?

[adnj]

Why would they explode? The current projections show total cases to be at 20% of the peak at the end of the year. Deaths for today were projected to be 2.8. Cases are also projected to decrease to near zero by June.

But that's just a projection.

[redmanjp]

Why would they explode? The current projections show total cases to be at 20% of the peak at the end of the year. Deaths for today were projected to be 2.8. Cases are also projected to decrease to near zero by June.

But that's just a projection.

perhaps not now but a few weeks ago - if they were turning away lots of ppl at that time it would be the reason we did not see skyrocketing cases as what happen in UK, US, etc.

[adnj]

Why would they explode? The current projections show total cases to be at 20% of the peak at the end of the year. Deaths for today were projected to be 2.8. Cases are also projected to decrease to near zero by June.

But that's just a projection.

perhaps not now but a few weeks ago - if they were turning away lots of ppl at that time it would be the reason we did not see skyrocketing cases as what happen in UK, US, etc.

The peak estimated case occurrence was 10,000 per day at year's end while confirmed cases was about 1,000. The cases did skyrocket. There simply wasn't sufficient testing to indicate it.

[Chimera]

Things ramping up slightly.
Mt.hope oxygen usage for covid patients increasing

[sMASH]

Covee done. Rowley eat enough pandemic food.

[Dizzy28]

Things ramping up slightly.
Mt.hope oxygen usage for covid patients increasing

A Taste of O2

[MaxPower]

Again,

People getting turned away and not one social media footage if it was THAT bad?

K