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CMO: J&J covid19 vaccine to be more widely available

CHIEF Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Roshan Parasram announced that from Wednesday, there will be a wider distribution of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson covid19 vaccine to members of the public.

He made this announcement at the virtual health news conference on Monday.

Last month, Trinidad and Tobago received its first tranche of 108,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust.

Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh previously said these doses would be going to inland and coastal villages whose residents find it difficult to access vaccination centres.

Parasram said the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be available at all mass vaccination sites and health centres from Wednesday and people seeking it will not need an appointment.

He also said the Health and Education ministries are working out a strategy to increase the vaccination of 12-18-year-old students with the Pfizer vaccine and an announcement will be made in due course. The Pfizer vaccine is currently being administered to 12-18-year-olds at mass vaccination sites throughout TT.

https://newsday.co.tt/2021/08/30/cmo-jj ... available/

[hover11]

They should just make life uncomfortable for the unvaccinated. No access to govt offices, no inter island travel, no access to restaurants when they open etc.
look at how many places worldwide back to some level of normalcy.

So unvaccinated citizens must pay taxes and not have access to government services ....how that making any legal sense. Restaurants fine no issue nobody eating out atm and nobody in a rush to sit in a restaurant to eat out either way

[Mmoney607]

They should just make life uncomfortable for the unvaccinated. No access to govt offices, no inter island travel, no access to restaurants when they open etc.
look at how many places worldwide back to some level of normalcy.

Why don't they do that now, vaccines are widely available, people had time to get vaccinated and over 500k did.

[DMan7]

Maybe if they offer some vaccine incentive that might be enough for some people to go get vaccinated. Like a free box of KFC or something.

[redmanjp]

They should just make life uncomfortable for the unvaccinated. No access to govt offices, no inter island travel, no access to restaurants when they open etc.
look at how many places worldwide back to some level of normalcy.

So unvaccinated citizens must pay taxes and not have access to government services ....how that making any legal sense. Restaurants fine no issue nobody eating out atm and nobody in a rush to sit in a restaurant to eat out either way

Let them get an appointment list like in Guyana. Unvaccinated should have a limited number in every building. Unvaccinated employees should do a PCR test every 2 weeks and a rapid test the other 2 weeks.

No indoor dining cinemas or bars. All those activities involve taking off masks.

[De Dragon]

hover11 and the anti vax crew want to go against the grain, but want to partake in the grains' things?

[hover11]

Maybe if they offer some vaccine incentive that might be enough for some people to go get vaccinated. Like a free box of KFC or something.

Like a bribe? You bribing people to take something that's supposedly good for them....sure that will work not everybody will sell out they self for KFC probably sufferers

[DMan7]

Maybe if they offer some vaccine incentive that might be enough for some people to go get vaccinated. Like a free box of KFC or something.

Like a bribe? You bribing people to take something that's supposedly good for them....sure that will work not everybody will sell out they self for KFC probably sufferers

I bet if the bribe BIG enough they would though.

[hover11]

They should just make life uncomfortable for the unvaccinated. No access to govt offices, no inter island travel, no access to restaurants when they open etc.
look at how many places worldwide back to some level of normalcy.

So unvaccinated citizens must pay taxes and not have access to government services ....how that making any legal sense. Restaurants fine no issue nobody eating out atm and nobody in a rush to sit in a restaurant to eat out either way

Let them get an appointment list like in Guyana. Unvaccinated should have a limited number in every building. Unvaccinated employees should do a PCR test every 2 weeks and a rapid test the other 2 weeks.

No indoor dining cinemas or bars. All those activities involve taking off masks.

Intelligent comment, I have no problem with appointments as that means when I reach I am served and don't have to wait whole day

[redmanjp]

Maybe if they offer some vaccine incentive that might be enough for some people to go get vaccinated. Like a free box of KFC or something.

Like a bribe? You bribing people to take something that's supposedly good for them....sure that will work not everybody will sell out they self for KFC probably sufferers

an incentive. not a bribe.

NLCB have a vax and win promotion.

https://www.facebook.com/nlcbtnt/posts/831484414173103

[De Dragon]

Maybe if they offer some vaccine incentive that might be enough for some people to go get vaccinated. Like a free box of KFC or something.

Like a bribe? You bribing people to take something that's supposedly good for them....sure that will work not everybody will sell out they self for KFC probably sufferers

an incentive. not a bribe.

NLCB have a vax and win promotion.

https://www.facebook.com/nlcbtnt/posts/831484414173103

Ent NLCB Chairman say he eh know nuttin bout dat?

[hover11]

Maybe if they offer some vaccine incentive that might be enough for some people to go get vaccinated. Like a free box of KFC or something.

Like a bribe? You bribing people to take something that's supposedly good for them....sure that will work not everybody will sell out they self for KFC probably sufferers

an incentive. not a bribe.

NLCB have a vax and win promotion.

https://www.facebook.com/nlcbtnt/posts/831484414173103

Ent NLCB Chairman say he eh know nuttin bout dat?

The day it come out

[st7]

what are the anti-vaxxers plan to end a pandemic, to open the country once again, to return to some sort of normalcy?

would love to hear what they have to say besides vAcCinE iS bAd fOr YoU aNd PhArMa MaKiNg bIlLiOns while relying on meds supplied by said pharma.

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[redmanjp]

Is it true pfizer available for everyone now?

[DMan7]

Is it true pfizer available for everyone now?

[K74T]

Is it true pfizer available for everyone now?

Nope.

However the J&J is.

[redmanjp]

https://twitter.com/chefbrigetterj/status/1433087287164813315

They giving Pfizer out to adults in the Hasley Crawford Stadium.

If this is what you were waiting for….please go.
No appointment necessary.

Same at Wallerfield and any mass vax site

[K74T]

She wukking MoH?

[sam1978]

Pfizer could put some of their blue pull ingredients in the vaccine. Plenty trini men will rush to line up.

[Habit7]

UK experts say herd immunity may be unachievable
By Guardian Media Newsroom -September 1, 2021

Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds MP and Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh listen intently to questions from prisoner spokesmen during their visit to the Maximum Security Prison’s Rise Maximum Radio station in August. Both men also recently visited the prison to hear the concern prisoners had about accessing the COVID-19 vacicne.

Tuesday’s word from some international experts on the global COVID-19 challenge – including that herd immunity isn’t a possibility or achievable – is a sobering message.

That’s Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh’s view on reports by experts headed by Britain’s Dr John Campell’s in an August 31 COVID 19 video log headlined “Important Announcement.”

Campbell, an emergency nurse and tutor/lecturer, has a global following with health care and science-related vlogs on principles concerning COVID issues. The vlog suggested herd immunity may not be a reachable goal.

Yesterday, Deyalsingh noted Campbell’s vlog and the information in it. Before yesterday’s Cabinet retreat, Deyalsingh was asked by the T&T Guardian his view on it. He replied briefly, “Yes, it is very sobering.”

T&T’s been striving for herd immunity by vaccinations, including the latest drive targeting students and others from 12 to 18.

In August, Government indicated its targetted herd immunity level was60 per cent on the population. Up to yesterday, out of T&T’s 1.4 million population, 400,054 people were fully vaccinated and 510,548 had a first vaccination.

In his vlog, Campbell said a major paradigm shift has occurred in the way experts – who are normally followed on the pandemic – were speaking of the virus now and there was reasonable evidence that everyone, whether in the UK, US, or wherever, will get the virus. This was due to the more highly transmissible Delta variant and also as vaccinated people can still transmit the virus.

Campbell said the idea that “we’re” not going to reach herd immunity was basically accepted in the last few days. Herd immunity was initially seen as 70-80 per cent of a population and then 90 due to the Delta presence and many “breakthrough” cases – the latter where even vaccinated people get COVID and can spread it.

Campbell said all of those things had come together and the thinking had changed. He cited the report of Sir Andrew Pollard of the Oxford vaccine development team, who noted the Delta can infect those vaccinated, making herd immunity impossible even with high vaccination intakes.

He noted that Pollard felt there could be even more infections and variants – including potentially more infectious ones – on the way.

Campbell also noted East Anglia University professor Paul Hunter’s view that the concept of herd immunity is unachievable. Hunter also believed countries chasing continuous community testing could end up in a situation of constantly boosting vaccination shots. Hunter suggested two vaccinations were only 50 per cent effective and latest data signalled it’s time to change the way data is collected as the virus becomes endemic. This included stopping reportage on positive cases alone and focusing testing on ill people and their contacts.

Campbell said experts’ major consensus was agreement that everyone will be exposed to COVID and while an interesting change in the thinking, for the unvaccinated, it’s a significant warning. He said anyone unvaccinated will get the virus, as there’s nothing to stop transmission currently.

Campbell, however, noted that people with two vaccinations have a much greater chance of preventing severe illness, hospitalisation and even death. He said it was also believed two vaccinations, followed by a bout of COVID, could boost immunity.

Disappointed on the herd immunity issue, Campbell stressed the situation made preparation with vaccination, health optimisation and Vitamin D all the more important. Countries with winter have lower strength sunshine levels. Sunlight’s integral to the body’s Vitamin D production.

Campbell noted that UK vaccinations had prevented 60,000 deaths and 67,000 hospitalisations so far. But this hadn’t stopped the virus, which makes a winter wave of infections inevitable, as vaccinated people can get COVID.

Yesterday, leading T&T pharmacy owners said they’d also concluded the virus would be endemic and T&T has to adjust on that.

Meanwhile, as ministers boarded flights yesterday morning and reported for the Government’s three-day retreat in Tobago, there was no indication whether the latest new information from international experts – on herd immunity being unachievable – might be discussed during the retreat and if after further review, what plans it might prompt.

The retreat was initially designed to discuss and craft directions and decisions to move T&T ahead in the next fiscal year, including via 2022 Budget plans. Retreat outcomes are expected to be given on Saturday.

https://www.cnc3.co.tt/uk-experts-say-h ... chievable/

[Mmoney607]

https://twitter.com/chefbrigetterj/status/1433087287164813315

They giving Pfizer out to adults in the Hasley Crawford Stadium.

If this is what you were waiting for….please go.
No appointment necessary.

Same at Wallerfield and any mass vax site

But but but they were for the children

[Chimera]

chirren eh want the vaccine

cant waste it

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Data from Reuters
https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coro ... nd-access/

[redmanjp]

even if herd immunity is not achievable it in no way means we should stop vaccinating as the more we do the more ppl we protect, and also the less the virus can spread. low spread with very low hospitalizations is perhaps what we want.

[hover11]

even if herd immunity is not achievable it in no way means we should stop vaccinating as the more we do the more ppl we protect, and also the less the virus can spread. low spread with very low hospitalizations is perhaps what we want.

Until a variant emerges that is able to bypass vaccine , what then

[st7]

you tell us nah. you have an answer for everything.

[hover11]

you tell us nah. you have an answer for everything.

Back to the drawing board

[De Dragon]

More ammunition for the anti vaxxers to misuse

[redmanjp]

even if herd immunity is not achievable it in no way means we should stop vaccinating as the more we do the more ppl we protect, and also the less the virus can spread. low spread with very low hospitalizations is perhaps what we want.

Until a variant emerges that is able to bypass vaccine , what then

with every infection there is a very small chance of a mutation which becomes a variant of concern. the chance of it happening is much higher when there is a lot or uncontrolled spread. by reducing the number of infections we reduce that likelihood. and we can reduce that number by- guess what? vaccinating, as well as other things like masks, distancing, etc.