Actually Bobby again overlooking the deets my friend..read the post again I note I ve normalized for population sizes of vaxxed and unvaxxed persons. People are dying of covid in the same ratio overall in those two populations per million. I applied vaxxed and unvaxxed population to relative deaths between aug 20 and July 20th. If you d like I d give you math but on phone at mo at tedious with the thumbs - bottom line vaccination hasn’t made a difference in the outcomes - and we ll see but seems like seasonal trend continues and so far daily covid deaths are higher than this time last year…if that’s success i d hate to see failure..

I would weight it to that it any other year (as with a normal flu season) - but human behaviour has changed - lack of income, expense of testing and general tediousness of travel I think overshadows that..Plus school be out for a long long long time...the emphasis here is in the Bahamian context

Sinking? It's on rocks and scuttled it's just all the passengers and crew were none the wiser. Guess what it wasn't covid that did it - political response to that situation and many others. In sum debt, years of corruption and a leadership...take ya money outta da bank people because inflation and devaluation coming soooon....

And if cases and deaths aren't catapulted to the stratosphre given that (if by some miracle) many people may have antibodies in spite of their vaccination status or that covid doesn't spread well out doors - can we agree it's time to let it go a move on - recognising seasonal spikes occur but they subside and generally fairly predictable? Children can go to school and masks outside is unreasonable and unpractical, that curfews are pointless but maybe ban air conditioned dancehalls and churches?

Respectfully (typos aside) I think we either agree or you have missed the point which - 'yes' is old people pass - covid or not, vaccinated or not...therefore..forcefully mandating vaccines or interrupting those in society that don't wish to get vaccinated in order to force vaccination - is not going to make a difference in the long run...Vaccination effacy fades more quickly in the old the people that need protection the most and vaccination does very little to stop transmission in young people who are already mostly protected by youth and/or health...Universal vaccination is there a colossal waste of resources in the long(er)(6+ Months) term.

The MOST important covid fact/trend is emerging - Seasonality appears to have more of great bearing on risk then vaccination or mask or social distancing - it is so coincidence that cases raise in the south when it's hotter and people spend more time indoors and air conditioning and in the north people spend time indoors to stay warm...Mitigation Policy have failed to take this into account - it is fundamental to epidemiology but yet the political medical community seems to be largely ignoring it...

More contagious and but not more deadly and basically laughs at vaccination status...

Latest report from UK dropped we can not examine data between July 20th and August 20th.
During that period 70% of deaths due to the delta variant where among the vaccinated, normalising for population size (ie numbers among the vaxxed and unvaxxed population) the deaths per million were almost exactly the same. Vaccination seemingly has not made difference to overall fatality in the respective populations.

The number of infections amongst unvaccinated where considerably higher, however that could the outcome of the testing policies for those that were unvaccinated. Case fatalities rates were higher amongst under 50 year olds that were vaccinated but overall very very low in both populations. CFI was significantly higher among the over 50's that were unvaccinated. Given the rate of 90+% vaccination rate in 50+ age group this reflects that many unvaccinated 50+ year old were likely too ill to receive the vaccine - typically those that are hospitalised for other illness are not vaccinated until they have recovered...if too feeble for vaccination it makes easy work for covid. So the outcome is again not surprising.

The delta virus has been here for as long as it has been in the USA...why we are only hearing about it now is really just testament of how woefully unprepared and overwhelmed the our health care system is...

Why doesn't the Bahamian government try frugality for once...maybe don't spend 30 million on a bridge with a constituency of only what 3-5k? Maybe skip that 70 million dollar airport ...invest in education and health care maybe?

yes sir - and leave the politics out of it...and why on earth are we waiting for 4-6 weeks to have deaths analysed...? If it isn't clear cut then it's probably not a covid death - it can't be that hard..surely...

Only for maybe 5 months and then basically it's coin toss.. Get out exercise get healthy and your chances drastically improve.

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