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malaise

(267,787 posts)
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 11:47 AM Apr 2020

St Lucia - somewhere that had 15 cases and all have recovered

Sorry Don the criminally negligent Con - it's not the USA

https://www.loopjamaica.com/content/all-st-lucias-covid-19-patients-have-now-recovered-1
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As of April 22, 2020, Saint Lucia has a total of 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

"To date, all of the positive cases of COVID-19 in Saint Lucia have recovered, with the remaining two cases who were in isolation receiving negative COVID-19 test results and since discharged from hospital.

This now places Saint Lucia at a 100 percent recovery of all COVID-19 cases. Among the 15 cases Saint Lucia recorded were individuals who fell within the category of high risk by virtue of some being elderly as well as living with chronic illness.

They too recovered well with no complications or needed critical care.
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more at link

St Lucia has a history of turning away cruise ships once their are medical problems on them. 2020 is not the first time they have sent cruise ships packing.

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Well done St Lucia

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Greybnk48

(10,147 posts)
1. Bravo to them! I keep wondering if the spread and intensity of
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 12:08 PM
Apr 2020

Covid-19 is tied more closely to pollution particulates from cars and industry than we currently realize given this result.

Greybnk48

(10,147 posts)
7. I should have added that the #1 cause of spread is dense population
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 01:49 PM
Apr 2020

and close quarters, like on a cruise. I just meant in addition to closely quartered people. There seems to be some evidence for it.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200427-how-air-pollution-exacerbates-covid-19

Tanuki

(14,893 posts)
3. I just hope they won't be besieged by wealthy people showing up on private jets
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 12:25 PM
Apr 2020

to shelter there (and bringing new risk of infection to the locals) after they read this. Good on St. Lucia for beating the virus! And how wonderful that not one single life was lost.








malaise

(267,787 posts)
4. Have a look at the dates when St Lucia started turning away cruise ships
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 12:33 PM
Apr 2020
February 1st 2020...Note that the same Fox news that called it a hoax carried this story on Feb 3.

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/st-lucia-turns-away-cruise-ship-coronavirus

A cruise ship was turned away by authorities in the Caribbean island of St. Lucia this weekend over coronavirus concerns.

CORONAVIRUS PROMPTS FAMILY TO CANCEL VACATION, THEY SAY NORWEGIAN WON'T REFUND THEM THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS

On Saturday, the AIDA Cruises ship AIDAperla was not allowed to dock at the port of Castries, the nation’s capital, “due to some guests with upper respiratory tract infections on board,” a spokesperson for AIDA cruises told Fox News.
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St Lucia acted early and they have done so in previous years over stomach viruses on cruise ships

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
5. It also helps considerably that
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 12:52 PM
Apr 2020

St Lucia has about 238 square miles of land area, and about 182,000 people.

But still, good for them.

malaise

(267,787 posts)
6. Of course size matters but remember that said cruise ship went on to Martinique
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 12:58 PM
Apr 2020

and also spread to Guadeloupe. Sint Maarten is much smaller than St Lucia
Here are the latest numbers in the Caribbean'
Dominican Republic 5,749 - 267 deaths
Cuba 1,285 - 49
Jamaica 288 - 7
Martinique 170 - 14
Guadeloupe 149 - 12

Trinidad 115 - 8
French Guiana 111 - 1
Aruba 100 - 2
Bermuda 99 - 5
Barbados 77 - 6
Sint Maarten 73 - 12
Bahamas 73 - 11
Guyana 73 - 7
Haiti 72 - 6
Cayman 70 - 1
Saint Martin 38 - 3
Antigua/Barbuda 24 - 3
Belize 18 - 2
Curacao 16 - 1
Dominica 16 - 0
Grenada 15 - 0
St Lucia 15 - 0
St Kitts/Nevis 15 - 0
St Vincent & G 14 - 0
Turks & Caicos 11 - 1
Montserrat 11 - 1
Suriname 10 - 1

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