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Airline and cruise-ship visitors to Jamaica may be required to present medical certificates of a negative COVID-19 test in order to enter the island when the country reopens its borders for tourism.
The medical certificate, which should be no older than 76 hours, is among a number of proposed protocols now on the table for implementation.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/l...covid-passport
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Originally Posted by TuffGong
There is still much major and fine tuning being discussed before implementing formal procedures. The first draft was very interesting. The key take away from what is being discussed is that the Ministry is being "tasked with fine-tuning the strategies that must comport with international travel and tourism standards."
Unless there is a vaccination for COVID-19, having any medical certificates 76 hours or shorter would be no indication as you could get it on the way to the airport and be asymptomatic and undetectable upon arrival.Quote:
Originally Posted by TuffGong
Until there is a vaccination for COVID-19, all guarantees are off the table.
Exactly!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Accompong
They mention that in the article.
Getting tested is simply a snapshot in time. You can catch the virus 10 minutes after you get tested. Testing really doesn’t indicate or mean much of anything. And the difficulty of getting testing would prevent most people from getting testing and it’s certificate prior to flying to Jamaica. So after making hotel reservations and flight reservations it may be impossible to get a certificate within the 76 hour timeframe
Common sense went out the window 2 months ago. We have flu vaccines and every year 70,000 die from the flu in the US. What makes anyone think that a covid vaccine would do any better?
Could not agree more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lax1724
You're saying that 70,000 people that have taken the flu vaccine die every year, wow, that's harsh.
I’m not sure what point you are making. 70,000 Flu deaths with a vaccine and covid19 US deaths stand at 85,000 with the nation (and the world) shut down. Without the shutdown we could be in the millions. People must wake up to the fact this is not the flu!!
That 70,000 number is actually only an estimate using algorhythms. The actual counts show the numbers are well below 70,000.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lax1724
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...es-to-oranges/
From that link: When reports about the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 began circulating earlier this year and questions were being raised about how the illness it causes, COVID-19, compared to the flu, it occurred to me that, in four years of emergency medicine residency and over three and a half years as an attending physician, I had almost never seen anyone die of the flu. I could only remember one tragic pediatric case.
Based on the CDC numbers though, I should have seen many, many more. In 2018, over 46,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses. Over 36,500 died in traffic accidents. Nearly 40,000 died from gun violence. I see those deaths all the time. Was I alone in noticing this discrepancy?
They are estimates that the CDC produces by multiplying the number of flu death counts reported by various coefficients produced through complicated algorithms. These coefficients are based on assumptions of how many cases, hospitalizations, and deaths they believe went unreported. In the last six flu seasons, the CDC’s reported number of actual confirmed flu deaths—that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently counting deaths from the coronavirus—has ranged from 3,448 to 15,620, which far lower than the numbers commonly repeated by public officials and even public health experts. In fact, in the fine print, the CDC’s flu numbers also include pneumonia deaths.