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

[redmanjp]

omg

[Gem_in_i]

23 deaths

[widdyphuck]

Total deaths for May thus far is 148.
What a number.
Hospital occupancy is 387 while yesterday was 388 /772 yet they saying the beds full?
I wonder how much people dying home?

[Dohplaydat]

10,102 tests in the last 5 days.

Same period a week ago there was 8766 tests.

That represents a 15% increase.

Our positivity rate is also increasing, so at a minimum we will have an average of 10% more cases this week.

Still increasing, but the rate of increase has slowed. This week should be the peak.

[toyolink]

The pool of infected citizens has reached a number which suggest that our mortality rate is going to be elevated for longer than one would hope.
The horror stories of our inability to cope with deaths is about to unfold and this is going to be real difficult emotionally as we have seen in other jurisdictions/countries.
Our frontline workers would need our help and full support in order to survive their operating conditions.

[Dohplaydat]

Total deaths for May thus far is 148.
What a number.
Hospital occupancy is 387 while yesterday was 388 /772 yet they saying the beds full?
I wonder how much people dying home?

They stop counting people in tents as hospitalized.....that is why it has stopped increasing. It's pretty much maxed out at the facilities they count.

Despite active cases skyrocketing.

[matr1x]

If you have a fever, private medical centers are no longer accepting patients.


Crapuad smoke allyuh pipe.

Let the venes come in!

[bluefete]

Wow. Just wow.

Time to cut back on grocery hours and let people shop by last initials on specific days.

[mamoo_pagal]

The workplace needs to be evaluated in addition. Somewhere it's happening and the impact of the measures may not be effective as it should be in those environments.

Wow. Just wow.

Time to cut back on grocery hours and let people shop by last initials on specific days.

[DMan7]

Unfortunately this is something that has to be waited out until the restrictions and measures take effect. Can't panic and keep adding more restrictions on top of more restrictions.

[sMASH]

Wow. Just wow.

Time to cut back on grocery hours and let people shop by last initials on specific days.

unless u cut back on people, then the same amt of people will have to go to the same places, but with less time. all waiting to get in, and thats how u spread it... by lingering together.

[widdyphuck]

This week is make or break week.
Lots will die at home unable to access oxygen.

[Dohplaydat]

Unfortunately this is something that has to be waited out until the restrictions and measures take effect. Can't panic and keep adding more restrictions on top of more restrictions.

This. Measures takes at least 2 weeks to show up in data.

The workplace needs to be evaluated in addition. Somewhere it's happening and the impact of the measures may not be effective as it should be in those environments.

Wow. Just wow.

Time to cut back on grocery hours and let people shop by last initials on specific days.

This too many people working still and literally everyone I know got it from a co-worker.

[MaxPower]

How long before we start burning bodies on the pavement?

In other words, how long before T&T gets a proper wake up call?

You Trinis are still out and about and taking this for a blasted joke.

601/23

Blasted shame

[aaron17]

How long before we start burning bodies on the pavement?

In other words, how long before T&T gets a proper wake up call?

You Trinis are still out and about and taking this for a blasted joke.

601/23

Blasted shame

The ppl who out and about.. feel like they on vacation ah tell yuh.

[sam1978]

A lot of people claim to be afraid of catching it in the workplace, just to stay home. Then when they’re home they palancing and roaming and forgetting we in a pandemic. Also when you all are moving around, check how many people wearing masks in the proper manner, if at all.

[aaron17]

[BUG]

Unfortunately this is something that has to be waited out until the restrictions and measures take effect. Can't panic and keep adding more restrictions on top of more restrictions.

This. Measures takes at least 2 weeks to show up in data.

The workplace needs to be evaluated in addition. Somewhere it's happening and the impact of the measures may not be effective as it should be in those environments.

Wow. Just wow.

Time to cut back on grocery hours and let people shop by last initials on specific days.

This too many people working still and literally everyone I know got it from a co-worker.

1. Way too many employers forcing their non essential employees to work, under threat of not being able to make their rent/mortgage payments.

2. Way too many people liming legally between 5am to 9pm since the law says five people are allowed to lime, drink alcohol and not wear masks indoors.

[sam1978]

How long before we start burning bodies on the pavement?

In other words, how long before T&T gets a proper wake up call?

You Trinis are still out and about and taking this for a blasted joke.

601/23

Blasted shame

It’s as if they don’t believe we’re in a pandemic.

[widdyphuck]

How is it that the virus isn't affecting teenagers or children?

[jhonnieblue]

It is, symptoms are less agressive. There are a number of research papers alluding to it attribute d to the young immune systems, and they do not develop the very aggressive immune response known as a cytokine storm that adults form when they get the virus. It is that intense reaction to the virus that helps perpetuate damage in the lungs and other organ systems, often irreversibly harming adult patients.

How is it that the virus isn't affecting teenagers or children?

[redmanjp]

employers to blame too. thousands of applications for 300000 people! so much ppl does be out and about normally in d night?

[widdyphuck]

employers to blame too. thousands of applications for 300000 people! so much ppl does be out and about normally in d night?

They didn't get a pass though.

[Habit7]

Trinidad government reacted to late.

Sure they did

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Habit7,

you are going to regret using that graph as a benchmark for our performance.

In a month or less we will be 4th on that list, second to Guyana. Also you conveniently left out Barbados, St Vincent, Cuba, Grenada etc.

Firstly I was responding to ZR and the curfew issue, were the last to implement a curfew because we are the last to have such a big wave.

Secondly, my bad I forgot Barbados and Grenada but I was going according to the list and it doesn't have SVG nor Cuba.

Thirdly, wasn't you who was saying TT protocols were too harsh and when I was pointing to Bim who had a curfew as being harsher and stricter you said we were still too harsh and that we should reopen our borders? Up until the start of the lockdown there were several voices here and in the country claiming the then existing protocols are too strict. Now ppl basically demanding TTPS walk around and start flogging ppl like Indian police.

There must have been something good that we were doing from March 2020 to March 2021 to keep our numbers relatively low. Hence the reason we had not put in a curfew like other Caricom countries, hence the reason for my current graph. But whether it is lax border control, pandemic fatigue, vaccine apartheid or the P1 variant, our number will grow as projected. There is nothing for me in regretting citing facts for what led us to now.

[daring dragoon]

what the venez death or infection count ? so much statisticians and know it all in trinidad and we still dont have a breakdown. know it all inshan,ian,saieed thay bump dey gum but cant do their own investigation.

[hover11]

Supermarkets are the superspreaders NOW.

Prove me wrong.

[abducted]

what the venez death or infection count ? so much statisticians and know it all in trinidad and we still dont have a breakdown. know it all inshan,ian,saieed thay bump dey gum but cant do their own investigation.

Who is saieed?

[Dohplaydat]

Habit7,

I did say we were too harsh, but that was explicitly referring to the borders which do NOT need to be closed. I was adamantly recommending just leaving it open but with a 14-day state quarantine.

Do you want to know what we were doing well? Doing the basics, the original strain was far easier to control.

The original strain is relatively easy to control in tropical climates.

My criticism with this government's management is that an open but controlled border would have never let the P1 strain enter. It was a lapse and pure incompetence that we didn't recognize that the P1 would eventually enter our country via illegal immigrants.

Secondly, we had a year headstart, why didn't we add increasing ICU/HDU I'm shocked how under prepared we are for this outbreak.

Thirdly, motherf*cking vaccines, we are still lagging a lot and Trinidad HAD the money to pursue this far more aggressively,. But again, the government say on their ass and wasted valuable time.

[matr1x]

You had room for shock? Pnm can't manage anything. Ever

[redmanjp]

P1 spread depending on how many levels of transmission is way worse than the original strain.

wuhan strain: 1>2>4>8>16>32

brazil strain: 1>4>16>64>256>1024 !!

the CMO said this. He also warned us back in march.

so P1 added to widespread movement/pandemic fatique is what have us here.