Princess Margaret Hospital. (File photo)
By RASHAD ROLLE
Tribune Senior Reporter
rrolle@tribunemedia.net
NINETY-TWO percent of the people who died or were admitted to the Princess Margaret Hospital for COVID-19 in October were unvaccinated, according to the Public Hospitals Authority.
Among those who died, two were partially vaccinated, two were fully vaccinated and 45 were unvaccinated. Among those admitted to hospital, six were partially vaccinated, eight were fully vaccinated and 167 were unvaccinated.
Those admitted to the hospital included seven children between the ages of zero and nine and 12 people older than 80.
The latest numbers are in line with previous statistics which show COVID-19 continues to have a far greater impact on unvaccinated rather than fully vaccinated people.
The newly released data comes as health officials weigh giving a booster shot to residents who are immunocompromised and/or over 60 years old.
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced last week it is now authorising booster shots for all adults over 18.
The CDC announced that Americans over 50 as well as those 18 and older who live in long-term care facilities “should” get booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines. The CDC said all adults over 18 “may” get booster doses.
Recipients of Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine were already cleared to get a booster at least two months after their initial shot. Officials in the United Kingdom have also cleared the AstraZeneca vaccine as a booster shot.
COVID-19 cases have plummeted in The Bahamas recently. Just four cases were confirmed on November 21 and hospitalisations are now down to 18, with five people in the intensive care unit.
Officials, however, have linked the drop in cases to declining vaccination rates, a concern as cases in the United States and Europe have once again begun to soar.
Comments
tribanon 3 years ago
ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz.............
carltonr61 3 years ago
The script is in full rollout to vaccinate children blackmailing for education/day babysit as advised by vax profiteering computer guy funded regional health tyrannical dictatorship. 18,000 voices against this madness face universal jail time or loss of licenses for defying or simply questioning their professional training.
DDK 3 years ago
So what??? When are we going to get rid of the diabolical facemasks?
carltonr61 3 years ago
Fear mongering for vaccine uptick only to find out vaccines don't prevent infections but help you if your old and immuncompromised. Children need not aply. Children hispitilized from Covid or with Covid. Seems we have set a universal record per population and would become the poster child for child vaccination had there been scientific data proof. Do did the children family also catch Covid from them or the trace of the infected adult take place. Many questions need to answered. Vaccines never prevent transmission according to Gates. Vaccines only help if you are hospitilized and weekend by Covid. Vaccines create possible heart malfunctions in those under 18 which is a greater risk than Covid can inflict. Will that vaccinated Qcode follow that child for entry into life or hinder the new world order for the unvaccinated. Will a vaccination that looses its efficacy after five months matter in three years or for life? A booster is a third shot every five months and a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. And still it does not stop transmission and yes it still sheds a varient of Covid after every shot until a new one is introduced. Then they will be looking for mor guinny pigs test subjects that this slew of vaccines has failed stopping Covid and spreading it.
carltonr61 3 years ago
The nation's that spent trillions on these vaccines can they get their money back? Needing to be recharged each five months to enter a restaurant, fly, attend school, church, swim meets or face renewed covid death risk was not in the contract. The test strip makers should be as rich as oil barons in the short and long term.
whogothere 2 years, 12 months ago
COVID meet Benadryl...
It's going to be really embarrassing for the governments and medical professionals around the world if it turns out that antihistamines might be an effective treatment against COVID...
Oops..
www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/10/11/1514/htm www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC78…
Sign in to comment
OpenID