investigations conducted into the deaths???? What would prompt that? Thats a very odd statement... Will wait to see the results

They mean that they are tracing the contacts. Don't know why they won't just say that.

They would have started contact tracing from the moment they presented with symptoms or tested positive. This is something different.

If you say you're investigating after someone dies of a severe illness that had a high probability of causing their death anyway, My first thought is do you have reason to believe they shouldn't have died? Hospitals do these reviews regularly for suspect cases...well they're supposed to. It's not a blame game (most times) it's more, what could we have done differently.

We won't know either way.

Both infections and deaths are about to accelerate because people refused to be sensible,listen to reason, stay home and self distance. Now things are about to get real!

And families are going to be looking for somebody to blame.

Ma Comrade Still, what say if we **start with telling the truth,** why a Bimini resident **had be left dead** on PM's, ministers of health's, aviation's and transport's procrastination's watch. Nod once for yeah, twice for no **for ministerial intervention?**

Her......yes.....she might have been saved......can't say for sure though because she had underlying issues.

If such be case, then why not tell PopoulacesOrdinary the truth - irrespective where hatchet may fall. **All signs of a surge in collective ministerial incompetence are stamped all over comrade sister's death certificate?** God forbid but still it's damn scary to even picture the dead numbers can turn into 100 dead in less than 30 days.

And Bahamians can sniff out lies ......they are rightly suspicious and can sniff out a lie, even if it's buried in dog poo in a box underground

Very unfortunate situation. People, please follow the government's instructions and stay at home, only leaving for essential services. We have to flatten the curb. The life you save may be your very own!

Warning ma comrade Geostorm, **the life they save may not be Geostorm's,** or so warns colony's crown minister aviation?
Dionisio James says, **don't expect your elected government** to save everyone [[Geostorm's]]. Nod once for yeah, twice for no of you being on minister's hit list?

They won't test you until you are ready for hospital. By then it is too late for many.

Countries who have kept the death rate down test, test and test.

That way they can start to treat early on and avoid the hospital and
they can trace others early on who may have been incontact isolate them and those with it.

Low testing means a lot more Bahamians will die. Sad.

Locking us away will not do the job.

TEST, TRACE, TREAT

They just don't have anywhere near enough of the testing kits. In fact they likely have so few of them that they would be embarassed to make the number known to the public. It's also why they are silent about the total number of persons tested to date.

But Ma Comrade Economist, that requires investing in test kits.

yep by the time they have the breathing problems it looks like the decline is very rapid. but this seems to be the case world over. they're not taking patients unless they reach that stage. hospitals everywhere are stressed.

Seems number test kits hospitals actually have on hand as we posts may be on **high side 600, low side 150?**

The Tribune's headline to this article should much more appropriately read "Sad News."

Sensationalizing this crisis to increase readership should be beneath The Tribune's Chief Editor.

The fact is that the infection rate for the Bahamas is 80%. Most will be mild infections or just a Passover and up to 30% of that 80% will get visibly ill and some will require hospitalization. Some will expire. Only 20% of of patients who go on a ventilator will recover. And when a patient gets so low that the chances for recovery are close to nil, they may receive what is known as ‘comfort care.’ This is when the patient is given morphine or some other pain killer and efforts are directed more at keeping the patient comfortable as possible rather than recovery.

… actually, no. 80% may have no symptoms or mild symptoms. 20% may have more pronounced symptoms and of that 20%, 5% will develop symptoms that may require hospitalization. The rapid rate at which lung function declines in persons with severe problems require supportive care which is unlikely to involve pain meds since people will be unconscious. Not being able to breath properly usually affects the brain!

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronav…