I think all MP's and civil servants, BPL workers and road pavers should be quarantined at home for 2 weeks, as I am interested to see if things runs better or worse without them. I truly don't think that we will notice any difference.

Remember, we all had a "Safe and Effective" vaccination - so there is no way that these rumours can be true. Covid HAS to be gone from years ago.

Is someone suggesting that the vaccines did not work? No way. LOL.

Just be sure not to use any horse medicine, because if that works then the big time contracts would be canceled, and rich people need more money - so please don't use horse medicine.

36 cases in 6 weeks is fantastic and insignificant at best. Come on man, stop being an alarmist. How many people got the flu in 6 weeks? The flu infection probably was 10 times that amount. Secondly, everyone was partying and going to junkanoo, so is this alarming? Actually, 36 is fantastic in relation to 6 weeks , partying, and junkanoo celebrations. Stop being an alarmist. You have people out there that are easily led.

I dont know if its significant or not, but I know someone died. I'd be interested to know their age.

COVID affects veins which means you could be the unlikely one person in a 100k to catch it, experience severe symptoms,...as opposed to the majority who have mild symptoms and lose critical function to a vital organ... since every organ gets its lifeblood via veins.

I'd take the precaution, it's not hard to wash hands, and worry about whether its significant or not later.

That's reported cases. A lot of people don't get tested who have symptoms and you also have people who are asymptomatic. Also, the government tends to downplay the problem. So, I doubt he is being alarmist. I believe things are trekking in the wrong direction and he's talking now to make people aware so that they can protect themselves which would assist in reducing the spread.

"*As you can see coming out of the Christmas holidays, a lot of people travel abroad, and we’re exposed*

So you can only catch travel related COVID if you travel outside the country. Not from a tourist who travels here?

Why isn’t the Minister asking folks to get this year’s slate of vaccines for Covid, RSV and the Flu??
What’s the status of those supplies in the Bahamas
This article should have mentioned that the NYT’s reporting included most of those hospitalized are unvaccinated.

It's just the flu, it's the flu season, so it's just a flu. Now, stop the foolishness before you all start damaging people livelihood and means again. Stop it and stop it now.

LMAO. We have a much greater chance of being murdered in The Bahamas toady than we do of dying from variants of COVID, RSV and Flu all combined.

I know someone whose life was drastically altered very recently by a COVID infection. But I agree as was true during all of the pandemic, most people will be fine.

First thing they do when treating a serious flu case is give you the mult-variant COVID booster jab. And if you survive that, they know you will survive just about anything.