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Too early to start treating COVID-19 as endemic
Posted: Saturday, March 12, 2022
Cleghorn: Too early to start treating COVID-19 as endemic
"If we look at the data for Trinidad, Trinidad is not even in what I call the tail end of the epidemic because at three of four hundred cases a day, that's not the tail end."
Dr Cleghorn believes the number of fatalities needs to be reduced to zero for a comfortable admission of endemicity.
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As of yesterday, 3,676 people had lost their lives to the disease in T&T. However, at least 2,319 of them were over 60. It represents around 63 per cent of fatalities.
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But TT Unified Teachers Association president Antonia De Freitas said school fights are not a new occurrence and indiscipline cannot be linked to covid19.
"We are aware that there has always been violence in schools. I'm not sure there has been an increase (in fights). We have not gotten that information yet. The ministry will have to verify if we have a statistical increase in school fights and violence."
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