A year of missed preventive medical care is endangering minority communities. - Dr Wayne A.I. Frederick The coronavirus pandemic has yet to end, but we are already beginning to feel the aftershocks. Even as thousands of Americans continue to die of Covid-19 every day, many people are suffering from serious health problems unrelated to the virus because their health care has been disrupted. … [Read more...]
Caribbean Tourism: Vaccinated? No need for quarantine
Caribbean tourism experts are urging regional governments to seriously consider allowing visitors with proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test result to forego current quarantine requirements. The suggestion was raised Wednesday and immediately picked up traction among industry leaders at an online discussion hosted by the umbrella Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) under the theme … [Read more...]
Anticipating outcomes for patients with COVID-19 and identifying prognosis patterns
Since its first description, SARS-CoV-2 has been the subject of more than 59 000 publications worldwide. Although SARS-CoV-2 infection mainly results in mild disease, during the first COVID-19 wave in France, up to 3% of patients required admission to hospital, 0·8% required intensive care unit admission, and overall mortality was reported to be around 0·5%. The ability to predict disease … [Read more...]
Coronavirus cases in the Caribbean to date: 514,640
Confirmed Caribbean coronavirus cases as of today, February 22: Dominican Republic- 235,462 cases, 3038 deaths, 185,154 recoveries Puerto Rico- 91,680 cases, 1983 deaths Cuba- 44,523 cases, 296 deaths, 39,125 recovered Jamaica- 21,382 cases, 396 deaths, … [Read more...]
Cayman Islands: Shetty plans $100M hospital in Camana Bay
The Health City Cayman Islands management team has no regrets about opening the state-of-the-art hospital in East End but the location has proved to be the biggest lesson learned since the hospital opened seven years ago, Shomari Scott, the chief business officer at HCCI, said Friday. And so, with plans for a new state-of-the-art facility, this second hospital is going to be much closer to its … [Read more...]
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