Dr Richards: Death is ‘in your neighbourhood’; PM declares SOE as hospitals ‘basically out of beds’
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Dr Richards: Death is ‘in your neighbourhood’; PM declares SOE as hospitals ‘basically out of beds’
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has declared a state of emergency, starting from midnight, with citizens expected to stay indoors between 9pm and 5am unless they are specially exempted essential service providers.
There was no immediate timeframe offered for the duration of the measure, which the prime minister described as an ‘additional attempt to reduce the opportunity of spread’ and to limit the current ‘high levels of death’ to ‘a shorter period’.
Jackassery aside; is T&T being served during the pandemic? Do we deserve to be?
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Jackassery aside; is T&T being served during the pandemic? Do we deserve to be?
The people who were
not at his side to explain how we arrived at that momentous decision and what comes next were: the chief medical officer, the attorney general, and the minister of national security.
Photo: Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.
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CMO Dr Roshan Parasram was, arguably, adequately deputised by principal medical officer Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards and chief epidemiologist Dr Avery Hinds. But Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds and Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi?
Daly Bread: In the interest of accountability on spikes and vaccines
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Daly Bread: In the interest of accountability on spikes and vaccines
Dr Roshan Parasram, chief medical officer (CMO), and Dr Avery Hinds, technical director epidemiology, are trusted persons. I have said so more than once. It is from the facts, truth and science which they respectively deliver that I may raise issues about the government’s management of the pandemic.
The issue I raised last Sunday was this: who were the people, in response to the CMO’s concern at the increase in Covid-19 infections in early March, who ‘thought’ that the increase ‘was too small’.
Hospital beds running out for covid19 patients
Bed spaces at hospitals treating covid19 patients is running out.
According to Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards, principal medical officer in charge of institutions, on Saturday, overall hospital capacity in the parallel health care system was 64 per cent.
During a press conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s on Saturday afternoon, she said 73 per cent of the beds in Trinidad were full, as were 25 per cent in Tobago.
Caura hospital was at 78 per cent, Couva was at 71 per cent, Arima at 85 per cent, Augustus Long at 90 per cent, and overnight, St Ann’s went from zero to 18 per cent.
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