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This isn’t the best news for me. I liked the last update where covid was expected to go down in 4 to 6 weeks. I pray it goes down for all of us and soon, that’s all

“Belittle his own...”? That doesn’t make English sense.

They are right, I agree. An epidemic will cycle up and down in a population. It infects pockets of areas like weed seeds. Once there is sufficient penetration of those pockets the numbers go down and then it seeds a new pocket. Antibody life is not that important. The exposure or the vaccine sensitizes the T cells. Then upon re-exposure the T-cells turn on and tell the B-cells to start making antibodies again. Every vaccine does this. Take hepatitis B vaccine for instance. After the required does of vaccine, the antibodies disappear. Currently, it is not recommended to ever get a booster in 5, 10 or 20 years. It appears that the T-cells may be primed for life. Upon re-exposure the antibodies are made again. There are a lot of negative comments about the Thai Government being late on the vaccines. Do you think they don't know this? They were the recipients of a lot of Sinovac. They put their eggs in that basket. The lockdown cost everyone money. The government coffers must be hurting as well. I am very certain they know all of what is going on and they are trying the best they can. There are some really smart medical doctors advising. I am sorry for everyone. If the money isn't there then it isn't there. What to do but hold on and limit exposure risk factors. I made an offer to the Thai Medical Council to help the other doctors (I am a doctor). They really didn't have any emergency pathway for temporary licensing like many other places in the world. To volunteer in Thailand you need a work permit and for me, a medical license. Many of the US states have a temporary reciprocity until this problem is under control. Docs and nurses are working enormous hours. I would be willing to help but the options are the same as in non-Covid times. I'm sure this is difficult for all. It will likely be a pandemic in the world for 4 more years given the graph of time vs vaccine distribution around the world and some papers the epidemiologists have written. I hope for the best. God bless everyone. Every life is important.

Did you mean to say the possibility of foreigners coming in to the country and catching COVID? I was just wondering if that was a misprint. At 15,000 new cases each day, it must show that there is abundant disease to spread from within the country already.

https://th.usembassy.gov/us-vaccine-donation-announced-2021/

Seriously, this is really good news. Hang in there Thailand!