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Coronavirus - In the DR
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The situation is NOT looking good -
ANÁLISIS ESTADÍSTICO DE LA EVOLUCIÓN DEL
VIRUS EN LA REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA INFORME #95
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w9zS4C … sChW6/view
Samana 12 cases, 22 tests.
Maria TS 18 cases, 30 tests.
Santiago 100 cases, 216 tests.
SPM 30 cases, 58 tests.
Espailat 18 cases, 39 tests.
The regional test positivity is very high in many places now.
DN has more cases but lower positivity.
More testing is needed in the provinces.
ANÁLISIS ESTADÍSTICO DE LA EVOLUCIÓN DEL
VIRUS EN LA REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA INFORME #95
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w9zS4C … sChW6/view
Samana 12 cases, 22 tests.
Maria TS 18 cases, 30 tests.
Santiago 100 cases, 216 tests.
SPM 30 cases, 58 tests.
Espailat 18 cases, 39 tests.
The regional test positivity is very high in many places now.
DN has more cases but lower positivity.
More testing is needed in the provinces.
Certainly SD has more cases (larger population)
but the problem has spread nationwide now..... much more dangerous to society generally
Hard to avoid infection - just act accordingly and be careful
but the problem has spread nationwide now..... much more dangerous to society generally
Hard to avoid infection - just act accordingly and be careful
If that was true they would be very close to herd immunity. The people getting tested are the ones that are sick.
If those Americans who are "getting on with their lives" truly cared as much abut the DR as the claim, it should be an easy decision to stay away. With out of control spread in the USA why would someone wish to risk bringing more virus to a backwater country that can't cope with the cases of CV19 it already has within its borders? This is not a case of the more the merrier. Infection is out of control and drastic measures will be needed to flatten the curve again when the hospitals are full and the death rate takes off. Travelers to this country run the real risk of getting stranded here again or getting sick and not being able to access above standard healthcare and this time it should not come as a surprise.
In light of the current reality on the ground here in the DR I would like to see countries make a renewed effort to get their citizens out of here rather than allowing more to come and letting the chips fall where they may. The DR is not and will not be a particularly safe place disease wise to be for sometime to come.
There is no herd immunity for covid. Several studies have shown this.
So the health minister days some of the rumors about Santiago are not true, no surprise here.
dominicantoday.com
Dominican Health Minister says saturation by COVID-19 in Santiago is not true
<p>Health Minister Rafael Sánchez Cárdenas said today that it is not true that Santiago’s clinics and hospitals are at maximum capacity with Covid-19 patients. “In Santiago, there are 96 beds for the ICU and there are 76 occupied, there are 467 beds for the ICU and they have 417 occupied so that...
dominicantoday.com
If people have the actual symptoms for CV19, then a positive result is actually expected, would you not agree?
It is not like the tests being done in the DR are random.
A darn shame that is. And then a news report comes out that the people in Corona, Queens , NY (yes Corona, Queens) have reached "herd immunity" levels.
So go figure that out. Herd immunity is not possible if there is no herd immunity derived by those people who tested positive for antibodies.
And that vaccine we all so desperately want yesterday? Good luck with finding one that works if even having tested positive for CV19 does not protect you.
For some people I suppose getting on with their lives is going on vacation in the DR, going out to restaurants, movies etc. . At least that was "normal" for millions of Americans before CV19.
Three months of flattening the curve does not work. Pandemics follow a bell shaped curve. By flattening the curve for three months we simply kept the pandemic on the left edge of the bell shaped curve for that extra time. The right edge of the curve is somewhere out in time:
Random tests are so unlikely to ever happen here that they are only a discussion point on a forum and won't be a reality.
Pretty much like almost all of the rest of the world in that regard.
That is all that could ever be done, in reality. Just one case started all this back in the October/November time frame in China.
It was very hard for me to get the PCR test. That tells me that the ones who get tested are exhibiting clear symptoms so off course the positivity rate will be high.
My story: I had positive Rapid Test on june 1. Go started on ivermecting regimen on day 3. Started symptoms on day 3 at night.
I had Rx for PCR test on day 3. Had to be done with Referencia lab and they must come to your house. They wont even look at you at the lab itself. So I went home and was told to send the Rx, my cedula and the insurance card to the lab with Whatsapp. I did and got acknowledgment of receipt. They say they will call to schedule the test. I waited and waited, called and called..no answer. Then they finally answered the phone .. they had lost my request. I sent everything again. They received again. The next day they scheduled the test for the following day. I have to pay 500 pesos for the cab they will take. Cannot eat half hour before the test, but they only tell you the test will be after 8am. So you wait, and wait, and call them at 10am. They are on their way. Then they cannot find the place even with clear instructions. Then they call me again wanting confirmation that I will indeed pay for the cab. When I said yes, they finally showed up. Nose swab performed using the same long Q-tips for both nostrils. No throat swab although i had sore throat. Got negative results 1 day later. All together about 2 weeks from onset of symptoms. I almost gave up several times and a poorer person would not/could not pay for cab ride.
All of this to say that I understand a high positivity rate when it is so hard to get tested (although mine was negative).
We have several here (DR1) who advocate getting on w/ life - to a degree, I am one of them
We must get on w/ it.... carefully, prudently, cautiously... lots of adverbs for it
As for the high + testing, I expect they are not random tests....
but rather verifying existing symptoms
The larger , more worrying problem is how the cases have shifted away from and out of the metropolitan centers.
Like water spilling.....seems to run everywhere -
especially where you don't want it to go !!!
Imagine you have no insurance...couple people I know paid close to 5000 peso for same test
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