More than 1,100 Grenadians received the AstraZeneca vaccine on Friday,14 May in what the Ministry of Health has dubbed a record-breaking day.
695 people received their first dose of the vaccine, and 440 received their second dose.
It was the highest number of people vaccinated in a single day since Grenada launched its Covid-19 vaccination drive in February.
Friday’s figures bring the total number of Grenadians receiving the first dose to 14,804 while 6,614 people are now fully vaccinated.
Acting Chief Medical Officer, Dr Shawn Charles is buoyed by the achievement and said the team will offer vaccination at the Kirani James Athletic Stadium between 9 am and noon on Saturday, 15 May. “We are very pleased with the turnaround and the level of vaccine uptake that we have witnessed today. Because of the increase in demand, we will like to extend the opportunity to the public to come out and get vaccinated on Saturday.”
As recently as last week, health officials had expressed concern about the hesitation by Grenadians to get vaccinated.
Dr Charles said if what was experienced on Friday is sustained, we can get back to some level of normalcy in a shorter period of time.
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Go to the website of virologist Geert Vande Bossche and you will be shock to hear his findings predictions and castastrophic end to this mass vaccination worldwide.
Thanks for the information. A lot of what he says ring true. But I also saw a lot of articles by so called Fact Checkers….including one from the BBC Fact Checkers… hahahaha hahaha…debunking Geert.
You know you are over the target when you are taking shots.
Kesri Johnson. I agree with you. The pro-vacination mafia in Grenada needs to step back and put COVID 19 in global context. It is also illegal to threaten and coerce our citizens to take experimental – and therefore unproven drugs – when these proletizers know nothing about the long term consequences of this medication. What is happening here is a bizzare corruption of good health care practices: if the public cannot recommend a pain killer to someone with a headache how come “the hospitality sector” can demand that employees take an experimental drug or lose their jobs? Such policies are disgusting and need to be stopped. Please note that I am not an “anti-vaxers and DO agree that we should all take vaccines. But not the experimental unproven ones that are being literally being rammed down our throats today.
People of Grenada. Monday 17 is your last day to get the vaccine so make sure it’s you don’t let your country down and your family down too as this is your last chance to be vaccinated so people go in your thousands and get vaccinated please. And please stop listening to people who say the vaccine is no good we it’s saving lives make sure it’s you. Please good luck to you all.
Can you explain how a vaccine made from mRNA can alter DNA? How is it that instructions to make a protein (that is, mRNA) can somehow reverse engineer itself and insert itself into an individual’s DNA? I’ve seen this posted all over the internet but have yet to find someone who was able to explain it to me. I’m hoping you’ll be willing enough to share the biological mechanism behind the gene-altering effects of the Covid vaccines (and provide the necessary evidence to support your claim).
GW as I understand it…. MNRA is basically an instruction genetic nucleic acid that compliment the DNA template, to direct and change Protein into elements to build cells.
The Experimental Vaccine comes with a precoded MNRA instruction to produce a Spike Protein which can either be embedded on the surface or penetrate cells directly and reproduce at will.
This trigger a chain reaction with our Immune System….Marcophages, White Killer Cells and T Cells and B Cells to attack and kill any Pathogen.
The problem with the Spike Protein is that it gets scattered throughout the body and not restricted to just the Upper Respitory Tract and Lungs as typical Respiratory infections do.
This Spike Protein then literally paints a target on every cells where the Spike Protein is now located. With a now Aggressive Patogen Primed Immune System, White Killer cells will attack aggressively and destroy cell tissue. Hence the Thrombosis and blood clots we have seen with the Adverse Vaccine Reactions.
Anyway, thats as basic as I can explain it.
Kesri, the knowledge is easy to find. Stop believing conspiracy theories & read the science. All vaccines are experimental at first, but that is how we wiped out smallpox, polio, mumps, german measles etc etc. Open your mind.
Anthony I wish Independent and objective knowledge was easy to find is these highly Censored times. I but one small voice against a roarung tide of Covid Tyranny pro Experimental Vaccine Propaganda.
It is called Experimental Vaccine is because it have not ungone any of the normal Health and Safety procedures which take years, to become an Approved Vaccine.
This Experimental Vaccine Data is just five months worth, insufficient to be Analysed and either Denied or Approved for Human use.
Is it acceptable for the same thinking to applied to Aircrafts, where an Aircraft is approved for mass transport without under going the proper safety requirements ehich takes time. This is people lives bing put at grave risk.. Anyway this and other reasons are sufficient grounds to object to this Experimental Vaccine.
Yes of course the administering of vaccines was stepped up on Friday because that was due to the ramped up scaremongering from recent briefings and coercion of losing jobs if staff don’t take it. Really sad and pathetic that basic human rights is taken away from someone if they simply don’t want to do something when it’s their own personal choice.
Could I suggest that Now Grenada simply remove the more hysterical comments? One the whole, I am against censorship, but conspiracy theorists and Qanon activists have no place in Grenada, and can only unsettle credulous elements of the population, causing untold damage, and giving free rein for the virus to spread once it gets here.
Ian, I fully support what you are saying, I posted much the same a few days ago. I was in the clinic in Lesterre, Carriacou, yesterday when I overheard a man saying to his friend that “it is all a hoax, all I need is a salt bath & some herbs & I won’t get it. Why take medicine if you are not ill?” at this point I could not keep my mouth shut. I turned around & said to him “this is bull shit, you take medicine to make you better, you take vaccine to stop you getting ill in the first place”. Then he told me it was all a white mans way to kill off black people. What a load of crap these people believe & causes their friend’s to not to take it. They kill people with their lies.
What we all know, is that dressed up as facts, there are lies, damned lies and there are statistics. I’m not a scientist, or a doctor, but I am an economist and a statistician. I choose to do much of my decision making using rational thought, statistics and logic. So let me step past the hubris of this current pandemic and get to the point we probably should all agree on. We have a virus in our midst, which has killed over 3 million people in a little over a year. The response to this virus has been universal and widespread – we shut down to limit the spread of the virus. Whether we agree or disagree this approach was the right one is not for you or I to decide. It is merely a statement of fact. Health authorities, governments and scientists around the world are sufficiently concerned about this virus and the people who make the decisions have (in the most) headed their warnings.
The place we found ourselves in – gave us two options. Invest in a may to treat the impact of the virus on those who get it or invest in a vaccine to negate the effects. If we did the former, our health systems would be over-run with sick and pseudo sick people clamouring for treatment and they would not cope with the volume. This was seen with the repeated need to lock down again and again. Therefore logically the vaccine is the only realistic hope.
Now our views on the vaccine are likely to all be the same. We all have concerns about its research, we have concerns about its testing and we have concerns about its long term impact. Its totally natural that we have concerns. But we’re not scientists and in truth don’t really know our mRNA’s from our qRBC’s. The science behind the vaccine is that they have extracted a strand of mRNA from the virus which can boost our own immune system and hopefully prevent us from having to deal with the full impact of the virus. So far I hope we’re on the same page as none of this is opinion – just cold, logical and fact.
So some statistics (and I don’t have them all). More than 1.25billion people worldwide have had at least 1 dose of the vaccine. There have been no reported increases in mortality due to vaccine administration. If there was a dramatic increase in deaths connected to anything there would be a public outcry somewhere. Countries with high vaccine rollout are experiencing reductions in cases, reduction in infections and reductions in deaths – with the possible exception of Chile.
Is Covid 19 a very survivable virus? yes it would appear it is. But it has the capacity to kill more people than measles, mumps or rubella and we get our children vaccinated for those. It is more deadly than polio, and we vaccinate for that too. And like those vaccines it is entirely your choice if you want to get them or not.
What is not our choice, is when to things get back to normal. The people who make the decisions have determined that this only happens when sufficient people have been vaccinated that a return to normal will not pose a risk to our health systems. Our economy is on its knees due to the shutdowns and people want to get back to work. People want to move forward. To do that, we need to take the vaccine. Whether we like it or not. If enough people choose not to take the vaccine, they are effectively holding the whole nation to ransom as none of us can move forward. This will either lead to a significant amount of economic distress/pain/suffering or will lead to a situation where the economy is reopened, which will put people’s health back at risk.
I’m a logical, pragmatic person with no deeply entrenched positions – except one. That one being a desire to return to some semblance of normality as soon as possible. I am also accepting of one inalienable fact too – we are all gonna die of something. Lets just make sure its not hunger!
Well said!
Absolutely perfect response! Thank you fir this!
I could not said it better ..just to add people have been dieing for years because of lack of basic needs ,water,food,shelter etc. The world leaders was never kin on helping save lives.. but they’re all of a sudden, plus no other vaccine have had so much safety concerns from so much scientists, doctors and people all over the world. Critically thinking something is obviously wrong
Did you have polio and all the other childhood vaccines…I guess they were experimenting too.. you are just scaremongering..you should act more responsible.. I guess you are another Donald Trump you have your vaccine already and you keeping it quiet.
I don’t support support compulsory vaccination but the nonsense you wrote here not doing any good.
Jackie I don’t want to insult your intelligence …..but do you even know the difference between a Traditional Inactivated Vaccine and an these brand new Experimental Precoded Genetic Vaccine?
I suspect you don’t really have a clue, let alinr understand the difference and increased risk involved ….beyond the endless propaganda that tell you this CV19 Vaccine is a safe Worldwide Miracle that is saving millions of lives.
Incidentally, the CV19 Vaccine should really be called Trump Juice. As much as I liked Trump he Royally messed up by pushing the CV19 Vaccines.
Unfortunately, Donald J Trump did more than anyone to enable CV19 Tyranny. He went along with evil Dr Faucci and pushed hard to fund development and later pressured to exempt and fast track these big Pharma Experimental Vaccines despite Safety and Legal Liability consideration.
Donald Trump was the one who provided billions to big Pharma to produce these Experimental drugs. So credit where credit is due….
I hope you will have the good manners to give the proper thanks and praise and say….. thank you Daddy Trump, the next time you inject the Trump Juice.
Hahaha.
Look people of Grenada get the vaccine ok it will save you and your family and friends and colleagues and your beautiful country get the vaccine b4 it’s to late
Act your age not your shoe size ok this vaccine is a life saver and to the people who say to others stop telling people not to take the vaccine as you are out of order
Please people make sure the every day man is aware of the vaccine and how easy it is to get yours.
All the high profile folks is not going make me want to take the vaccine because those folks are supposed to take it regardless but the man on the street who need to work for a living is the person who will motivate us to take the vaccine.
Hmmm wow first time everyone running now because the vaccine will expireing so you see something have to happen first look at what going on in Trinidad even today it’s so sad