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

[Mmoney607]

Cases starting to drop arready?

Like people don't dead on a weekend

[redmanjp]

Cases starting to drop arready?

what day of the week it is?

[widdyphuck]

Cases starting to drop arready?

Like people don't dead on a weekend

Hospitalizations are the highest right now.
More deaths to come.

[redmanjp]

yup. 2000 by wednesday.

[Dohplaydat]

Hospitalizations are way more with this wave than the previous, and I expect it to get worse in the coming weeks.

[Mmoney607]

Hospitalizations are way more with this wave than the previous, and I expect it to get worse in the coming weeks.
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I see the vaccines are working

[Mmoney607]

It was never about the vaccinated or unvaccinated, it was all about the healthy vs the unhealthy

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

It was never about the vaccinated or unvaccinated, it was all about the healthy vs the unhealthy

Unvaccinated make up more than 90% of those hospitalised.
Are you saying those that choose not to be vaccinated tend to be unhealthy people?

[adnj]

We in third wave or fourth?

The May/June surge never subsided. Delta stopped the decrease that was expected in August/September.

[adnj]

It was never about the vaccinated or unvaccinated, it was all about the healthy vs the unhealthy

Exactly. The minute an infection is out of control, you will exhibit disease symptoms.

Healthy - no COVID
Unhealthy - sick with COVID

One of the best ways to protect yourself and STAY HEALTHY is a vaccination.

[adnj]

ole news is misinformation

No. News and information that is incomplete, taken out of context or based on hearsay, and presented with the specific intent to deceive is misinformation.

[paid_influencer]

Unvaccinated make up more than 90% of those hospitalised.

is this a current figure? The MoH press release data-set goes back to July, before Delta and before most of the population was vaccinated.

[daring dragoon]

this world need prayers to exorcise the demons that pushing the poisons and the virus. first action they did was stop religious service and get god out the picture. Bring back god and get rig of covid.

[Kenjo]

Unvaccinated make up more than 90% of those hospitalised.

is this a current figure? The MoH press release data-set goes back to July, before Delta and before most of the population was vaccinated.

Lol men lazy In here

[adnj]

Scholars explain mysterious disappearance of Delta variant in Japan

21 Nov, 2021

Japan’s fifth wave of Covid-19 has virtually disappeared so dramatically that some scientists are puzzled as to why it happened. One team suggests the highly infectious Delta strain mutated into extinction on the island nation.

In mid-August, Japan experienced a peak in Covid-19 infections, recording over 23,000 new cases per day. Now the metric is just around 170, with deaths attributed to the disease mostly remaining in single digits this month.

The decline has been attributed by many to high vaccination rates, public acceptance of masks, and other factors, but some researchers say the drop was uniquely significant, compared to other nations with similar conditions.

Ituro Inoue, a geneticist at the National Institute of Genetics, believes that Japan had the good fortune of witnessing the Delta strain mostly rooting out other variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus before then eradicating itself. He explained his team’s theory to the Japan Times newspaper this week.

For some time now, Inoue and his fellow scientists were researching mutations of SARS-CoV-2 and how they are affected by the protein nsp14, which is crucial for the reproduction of the virus.

RNA viruses, like the one causing Covid-19, tend to have a very high mutation rate, which helps them quickly adapt to changes in the environment. However, this opens the door for a so-called “error catastrophe,” when bad mutations pile up and finally cause the full extinction of a strain. The protein nsp14 appears to offer a form of error proofreading that helps the virus genome to stay below the threshold of the “error catastrophe.” ...

Even if the natural extinction theory is confirmed, it is at best a temporary reprieve for the Japanese people. New, more successful strains are likely to eventually find their way into the country, though quarantine measures and immigration control could delay the emergence of new variants in Japan, Inoue believes.

Meanwhile, Tokyo is bracing for a new wave of Covid-19 this winter and is preparing to live with the virus. The government reportedly plans to ease travel restrictions by increasing the number of people it allows to enter the country per day from 3,500 to 5,000.

https://www.rt.com/news/540895-japan-de ... ction/amp/

[eitech]

Sci fi entists

[widdyphuck]

Lots of innocent persons gonna lose their lives.
Your choice if you want to be one.

[paid_influencer]

Even if the natural extinction theory is confirmed, it is at best a temporary reprieve for the Japanese people. New, more successful strains are likely to eventually find their way into the country, though quarantine measures and immigration control could delay the emergence of new variants in Japan, Inoue believes.

yup. The only guaranteed fact is that Delta will, at some point, be outcompeted by something more infectious and with more immune escape.

My guess is we have like 6 months before that new variant drops and we all need to make lifestyle adjustments to keep the spread down (or just accept a certain level of disability/organ damage as a natural part of life).

We never, ever going back to 2019, folks.

[widdyphuck]

Even if the natural extinction theory is confirmed, it is at best a temporary reprieve for the Japanese people. New, more successful strains are likely to eventually find their way into the country, though quarantine measures and immigration control could delay the emergence of new variants in Japan, Inoue believes.

yup. The only guaranteed fact is that Delta will, at some point, be outcompeted by something more infectious and with more immune escape.

My guess is we have like 6 months before that new variant drops and we all need to make lifestyle adjustments to keep the spread down (or just accept a certain level of disability/organ damage as a natural part of life).

We never, ever going back to 2019, folks.

What about Carnival?
Have my hopes up that it will happen.
2K22 Carnival should be epic!!

[death365]

Officially 3rd wave now...

[VII]

Lol, are you like 12 y.o or sumn ? The same god that didnt know the reproductive cycle of our beloved ladies and prescribed that we banish castigate and scorn them during their menstrual cycle ? Even to burn the sheets they lay upon ?

I suppose you think this was all made for us and by a god in the likeness of a primate too ent ...I just don't know why god can't get it right in the first place..

this world need prayers to exorcise the demons that pushing the poisons and the virus. first action they did was stop religious service and get god out the picture. Bring back god and get rig of covid.

[paid_influencer]

we all know about variants with immune escape. These have evolved so they either out replicate our immune system (delta) or change the structure of their surface proteins to avoid neutralizing antibodies (beta and to a minor extent, delta). Immune escape works against both natural immunity and vaccine-based immunity. Immune escape will be a major selection factor going forward.

The next step, and this is where I get into pure speculation, is testing escape. A variant evolved enough so our tests for the ancestral (wuhan) strain will not detect it.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is when the pandemic will be declared over.

[hover11]

Even if the natural extinction theory is confirmed, it is at best a temporary reprieve for the Japanese people. New, more successful strains are likely to eventually find their way into the country, though quarantine measures and immigration control could delay the emergence of new variants in Japan, Inoue believes.

yup. The only guaranteed fact is that Delta will, at some point, be outcompeted by something more infectious and with more immune escape.

My guess is we have like 6 months before that new variant drops and we all need to make lifestyle adjustments to keep the spread down (or just accept a certain level of disability/organ damage as a natural part of life).

We never, ever going back to 2019, folks.

What about Carnival?
Have my hopes up that it will happen.
2K22 Carnival should be epic!!

How could we miss the mother of all carnivals

[adnj]

Germans will be ‘vaccinated, cured or dead’ by spring, warns health minister

BERLIN — Germans will be "vaccinated, cured or dead" by the end of this winter, Health Minister Jens Spahn said Monday, as he rushed out extra doses of the coronavirus jab from BioNTech and Pfizer to inject into the arms of the one-third of people in the country who are still not vaccinated.

Germany is experiencing record COVID-19 caseloads in the current fourth wave of the pandemic, putting hospital intensive care units under increasing strain — with unvaccinated patients far more likely to become critically ill.

“Probably by the end of this winter pretty much everyone in Germany — as has sometimes been cynically put — will be vaccinated, cured or dead," Spahn told a hastily arranged press conference, in his starkest warning to date of the risks of holding out against vaccination.

“But this really is the case: With the very contagious Delta variant, it is very, very likely ... that anyone who is not vaccinated will over the next few months become infected and lack protection.

"In this respect, immunity is always achieved, the question is only whether it is through vaccination or infection. And we clearly recommend vaccination."

https://www.politico.eu/article/jens-sp ... ccination/

[eitech]

Lol, are you like 12 y.o or sumn ? The same god that didnt know the reproductive cycle of our beloved ladies and prescribed that we banish castigate and scorn them during their menstrual cycle ? Even to burn the sheets they lay upon ?

I suppose you think this was all made for us and by a god in the likeness of a primate too ent ...I just don't know why god can't get it right in the first place..

this world need prayers to exorcise the demons that pushing the poisons and the virus. first action they did was stop religious service and get god out the picture. Bring back god and get rig of covid.

Not sure which funnier the first or second response. Lol

[gastly369]

this world need prayers to exorcise the demons that pushing the poisons and the virus. first action they did was stop religious service and get god out the picture. Bring back god and get rig of covid.

Take it easy fordG

[adnj]

COVID-19 During Pregnancy May Increase Stillbirth Risk by a Staggering Amount

It's yet another tragic facet of the pandemic.

November 22, 2021

One of the major concerns of the pandemic has been how COVID-19 can affect pregnancy. Now, new data released on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention underscore a significantly increased risk of stillbirth when pregnant people contract COVID-19.

Stillbirth describes losing a pregnancy at 20 weeks or later, including during delivery, according to the CDC. To analyze how COVID-19 and stillbirth may be related, the CDC evaluated 1.2 million births in 736 U.S. hospitals between March 2020 to September 2021. Stillbirths were rare overall, but there was a noticeable increase among pregnant people who contracted COVID-19. Among pregnant people who didn’t catch the virus, 1 in 155 experienced a stillbirth. Among pregnant people who did get infected, that number was 1 in 80.

The data reiterate what’s becoming increasingly clear as the pandemic continues: COVID-19 can be extremely dangerous for pregnant people. This is because a fetus represents foreign DNA in the body, so a pregnant person’s immune system adapts in order to not attack the pregnancy. But this change can leave pregnant people more vulnerable to infections, like COVID-19 and influenza.

“Compared with those who aren’t pregnant, current data shows that pregnant people infected by the COVID-19 virus are three times more likely to require ICU care; are two to three times more likely to require advanced life support and a breathing tube; face an increased risk of death; and face an increased risk of stillbirth and preterm birth,” Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, M.D., a maternal-fetal medicine subspecialist in San Diego who serves on the Society for Maternal and Fetal Medicine (SMFM) COVID-19 Task Force, previously told SELF.

https://www.self.com/story/coronavirus- ... h-risk/amp

[widdyphuck]

COVID-19 During Pregnancy May Increase Stillbirth Risk by a Staggering Amount

It's yet another tragic facet of the pandemic.

November 22, 2021

One of the major concerns of the pandemic has been how COVID-19 can affect pregnancy. Now, new data released on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention underscore a significantly increased risk of stillbirth when pregnant people contract COVID-19.

Stillbirth describes losing a pregnancy at 20 weeks or later, including during delivery, according to the CDC. To analyze how COVID-19 and stillbirth may be related, the CDC evaluated 1.2 million births in 736 U.S. hospitals between March 2020 to September 2021. Stillbirths were rare overall, but there was a noticeable increase among pregnant people who contracted COVID-19. Among pregnant people who didn’t catch the virus, 1 in 155 experienced a stillbirth. Among pregnant people who did get infected, that number was 1 in 80.

The data reiterate what’s becoming increasingly clear as the pandemic continues: COVID-19 can be extremely dangerous for pregnant people. This is because a fetus represents foreign DNA in the body, so a pregnant person’s immune system adapts in order to not attack the pregnancy. But this change can leave pregnant people more vulnerable to infections, like COVID-19 and influenza.

“Compared with those who aren’t pregnant, current data shows that pregnant people infected by the COVID-19 virus are three times more likely to require ICU care; are two to three times more likely to require advanced life support and a breathing tube; face an increased risk of death; and face an increased risk of stillbirth and preterm birth,” Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, M.D., a maternal-fetal medicine subspecialist in San Diego who serves on the Society for Maternal and Fetal Medicine (SMFM) COVID-19 Task Force, previously told SELF.

https://www.self.com/story/coronavirus- ... h-risk/amp

Why women choosing to get pregnant now of all times.
Not a good idea.

[pugboy]

tell that to them venes
the first course of action as they land here is to make a babies

[widdyphuck]

tell that to them venes
the first course of action as they land here is to make a babies

Everytime I see them is big bellies.
I don't know how they getting money to take care of those kids in these times.
Crime might get out of hand just now.