TallGuyJohninBKK

I wonder where the "field hospital" bed numbers are in the above tally? I'm guessing those beds are included in the 71,879 figure. I don't think they have 71,879 "hospitel" (hotel-hospital) beds alone.

How does this sound? Daily new COVID cases: July 5 -- 6,166 Aug. 5 -- 20,920 or this COVID patients in critical condition July 5 -- 2,199 Aug. 5 -- 4,993

The government is now breaking out the daily numbers of COVID patients in home/community isolation combined. Today's number nationwide was 46,330.

Dunno what happened, but Thailand today reported a HUGE increase in its population of COVID patients being treated in regular hospitals, as follows: July 28 -- 67,084 July 29 -- 69,152 July 30 -- 74,232 July 31 -- 74,197 Aug. 1 -- 74,102 Aug. 2 -- 75,705 Aug. 3 -- 72,728 Aug. 4 -- 71,946 Aug 5 -- 87,150 They must have either made a mistake, or reclassified how they're counting some patients, because the total number of active cases only increased by 2,823 today compared to yesterday. https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

That total would be a new pandemic record high number of new cases for Bangkok, which has seen its case count spiral upward for the past two days with consecutive 4,000+ days. This below was the Bangkok totals prior to today for the past week: https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/379402483678082/?type=3

How many more "record daily high" days of everything COVID related is it gonna take before the government figures out what they're currently doing is NOT working???

--New record daily high of 20,920 new COVID cases (+720), surpassing yesterday's prior record 20,200 total. Second consecutive day of 20,000+ new daily cases. --160 new COVID deaths, Thailand's fourth highest daily death toll of the pandemic, brings the nation's total to 5,663 fatalities. Today's number is down from the record high 188 reported yesterday. --New record high 4,993 COVID patients in critical condition (+83), up from prior record 4,910 yesterday. --New record high of 1,058 critical COVID patients on ventilators (+23), up from 1,035 yesterday. --New record high total of 213,910 COVID patients (+2,834) as active cases in various kinds of treatment/monitoring, including 87,150 in traditional hospitals and 126,760 in other types of monitoring/treatment. Up from the 211,076 reported yesterday. --The 17,926 COVID patients listed as released and recovered is again substantially exceeded by the day's number of 20,920 new cases. https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

New record high for total daily cases -- 20,200 (+1,299) -- passing the 20,000 daily cases mark for the first time New record high for subset walk-in cases -- 16,284 (+1,108) New record high for COVID deaths -- 188 (passing the prior daily record high of 178) New record high for active cases / hospitalizations (including field hospitals) -- 211,076 (+2,037). That's because the number of new cases (20,200) still exceeded the number of patients released as recovered (17,975). Number of COVID patients in traditional hospitals declines during the past day from 72,728 to 71,946 New record high for COVID critical condition cases -- 4,910 (+17) Number of critical condition COVID patients on ventilators declines during the past day from 1,046 to 1,035 -- likely due to the day's record high number of new deaths. https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

Not quite the 10 million doses of AZ the Thai government had previously promised for July.... But then again, 4-5 million a month is the new normal now, and memories of the 10 million dose per month promise never surface in most of the Thai media reports these days, especially those affiliated with the government. As of a few days ago (and it may have changed since then), more total doses of Sinovac had been administered in Thailand since the beginning compared to total AZ doses, though the gap between the two is getting very close lately.

Or duplicate email submissions by the same person because their initial attempts didn't work... And perhaps, submissions by people who have already received a single dose that may or may not get kicked out, depending on how closely they scrutinize the submissions vis-a-vis vaccination records in their system.

Yes, the headline of the thread today is wrong.... the deaths daily bounce up and down, so day to day changes don't mean much. And there's no indication that today's deaths tally represents any kind of downward trend. But the broader trends are more instructive: The past five days death numbers -- 117, 178, 133, 178, 147 Same for the first five days of July -- 57, 61, 41, 44, 50 Double to triple those of a month ago.

Today wasn't a record high number of cases, but it was a close second behind the 18,912 from July 31.

The MoPH document says all 7 of the foreigner deaths reported today were people from Myanmar.

I'd be more interested to see/hear the number who have actually completed the registration process by sending in their documents and having those accepted/confirmed.

In their latest revision, they've also included the Thai student and diplomat group needing vaccines to travel abroad in the 150,000 dose allotment. So the portion for foreign nationals will be even less... And of course, it's two doses per person. So you cut the number of doses in half to get to the number of people who can be vaccinated.

It all depends on what numbers you look at, and what you compare them with... This is what the MoPH included in their daily briefing yesterday. If you look in cumulative terms, Thailand looks pretty good compared to many other countries. If you look in current terms, of what's going on right now, Thailand doesn't look so good.

fyi... https://seekingalpha.com/news/3722831-cdc-reports-over-6000-covid-19-hospitalizations-in-us-among-fully-vaccinated

Dark green line is the mild symptoms group.

The chart posted above was for CUMULATIVE deaths back to the beginning of the pandemic, including the one-year plus where Thailand had very little activity. That's why Thailand looks good in those kinds of comparisons. If you look at comparisons for the present, not so good. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths

The Thai MoPH recently (July 26) reported that about 55% of its total COVID patients in the hospital system in the Bangkok region, including field hospitals, were asymptomatic (the light green line below). But another 22+% had moderate to severe symptoms (the yellow and red lines). That kind of breakdown would look very different if they did it just for COVID patients in traditional hospitals. The field hospital system, on the other hand, basically serves as mainly a kind of quarantine / isolation system for patients with no or only mild symptoms. https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/373181097633554/?type=3

Today's new case total of 18,901 is the second highest ever, surpassed only by the 18,912 new cases reported on July 31. --The 147 new deaths marks the third highest daily death total of the pandemic for Thailand. The highest death toll days was 178 each set yesterday and also on July 31. --Everything regarding hospitalizations today is again new record daily highs. --new record high 209,039 total active cases / patients hospitalized (+164), although the number in traditional hospitals declined to 72,728 (from 75,705 yesterday) because of a record high 18,590 patients released from the hospital system as recovered. Even so, the share of COVID patients hospitalized in critical condition set a new record high of 4,893 (+125). It was the seventh consecutive daily record high for critical patients. And, the share of COVID critical condition patients on ventilators set a new record high of 1,046 (+18). It was the seventh consecutive daily record high for patients on ventilators. Critical condition patients comparison: July 3 -- 2,045 August 3 -- 4,893 https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

Posted on this earlier in the thread:

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/378047573813573/?type=3 The above chart is the MoPH's CUMULATIVE per capita comparisons for Thailand and their selected list of comparison countries... Here's the CURRENT per capita comparisons for new COVID cases and deaths for Thailand and those same countries, where Thailand isn't looking quite so good, with more per capita new cases than the U.S. and Indonesia. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases?country=~THA~#daily-confirmed-cases-per-million-people Right now, Thailand is reporting more per capita COVID deaths than both the U.S. and the U.K. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths

Probably in line with the prime minister's recent comments suggesting Thailand has fared better than some other countries in the pandemic, the MoPH today produced the following chart showing Thailand's per capita COVID case and death rates, cumulative since the start of the pandemic. Looking cumulatively, Thailand looks not so bad relative to other countries, though the comparison countries they chose to use are among the worst in the world and here regionally. https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/378047573813573/?type=3 However, what they didn't do a chart of, or report, is how Thailand's per capita case and death rates are faring NOW relative to various other countries, which would be a much worse showing, nor how Thailand has among the lowest COVID vaccination rates among fellow ASEAN countries. For example, in the latest day results comparing Thailand and the United Kingdom, which have almost the same size populations, Thailand reported 178 new COVID deaths today, compared to the 65 reported by the UK, even though the UK reported a higher number of new cases. And that deaths divergence is likely due to the UK having a much higher COVID vaccination rate than Thailand. https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/378047640480233/?type=3

O Phetchabun, Phetchabun, wherefore art thou Phetchabun? ????