No new Covid-19 case in Thailand, as global total exceeds 25 million

By The Nation

 

 

There was no case of Covid-19 in Thailand over a 24-hour period, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration reported on Sunday (August 30), while global cases crossed 25 million since the outbreak.

 

It was the 97th day without any domestic cases in Thailand since May.

 

Meanwhile, 10 patients were discharged after full recovery.

 

The total number of confirmed cases in Thailand stood at 3,411 (474 in state quarantine), of whom 101 are in hospital and 3,252 have recovered and been discharged. The death toll remains unchanged at 58.

 

As of 10am (Thailand time), the total number of confirmed cases globally passed 25 million. Of them, 17.5 million have recovered, while over 846,000 have died so far.

 

Thailand ranks 121st for most cases in the world, while the US has the most number with 6.13 million, followed by Brazil 3.84 million, India 3.53 million, Russia 985,405, and Peru 639,435.

 

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Cannot find what you do not test. 

 

Thailand has among the lowest testing rates in the world. 

 

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&country=USA~ITA~GBR~FRA~ESP~SGP~THA~KOR&testsMetric=true&interval=smoothed&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=total_deaths&pickerSort=desc

We really need to instil in these people the fear of their driving and their roads, to the same extent that they fear this virus. It is quite remarkable 

58 minutes ago, Fex Bluse said:

Cannot find what you do not test. 

 

Thailand has among the lowest testing rates in the world. 

Thailand likes to claim that it is a medical hub - yet its testing is basically no better than African countries - like Ghana, zimbabwe, senegal and Kenya ! None of whom claim to medical hubs ! 

5 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Thailand likes to claim that it is a medical hub - yet its testing is basically no better than African countries - like Ghana, zimbabwe, senegal and Kenya ! None of whom claim to medical hubs ! 

So if we test everybody today and half of us have got it, what exactly changes?

5 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Thailand likes to claim that it is a medical hub - yet its testing is basically no better than African countries - like Ghana, zimbabwe, senegal and Kenya ! None of whom claim to medical hubs ! 

There is actually testing in Thailand, ????where?

obvious this ZERO cases = oh people, thailand is safe, just spend 14 days in quarantine

 

how come there is no rapid test available ?

 

again, flying on a plane with THAIS that did not have to PRETEST for covid 72 hours before the flight is asking for trouble...

1 hour ago, sungod said:

So if we test everybody today and half of us have got it, what exactly changes?

The knowledge that the shutting out tourists is not an effective measure and the Tourism Economy is being killed for no reason. 

 

Maybe the virus swept through Thailand in Nov, Dec, Jan and Feb and the majority of the population have been exposed to Covid-19. 

 

Without either PCR testing or Antibody testing these are answers we cannot know.

Didn’t someone have it about a week ago and had not left the country , or does that one not count so the days click on

CDC Quietly Updated COVID-19 Numbers – Only 9,210 Americans Died From COVID-19 Alone – Rest Had Different Other Serious Illnesses

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/shock-report-week-cdc-quietly-updated-covid-19-numbers-9210-americans-died-covid-19-alone-rest-serious-illnesses/

Edited August 31, 20205 yr by Xaos

19 minutes ago, Xaos said:

CDC Quietly Updated COVID-19 Numbers – Only 9,210 Americans Died From COVID-19 Alone – Rest Had Different Other Serious Illnesses

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/shock-report-week-cdc-quietly-updated-covid-19-numbers-9210-americans-died-covid-19-alone-rest-serious-illnesses/

The Gateway Pundit - OK then. According to the Media Bias/Fact Check website, that site is rated as:

 

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Questionable based on extreme right wing bias, promotion of conspiracies and numerous instances of publishing false (fake) news.

 

Edited August 31, 20205 yr by GroveHillWanderer

Don't shoot the messenger, rather check if the article contains false news. Fact checking websites also have their agendas.

10 hours ago, sungod said:

So if we test everybody today and half of us have got it, what exactly changes?

Um, they might find that the rate of people infected per million and deaths per million are similar to the rest of the world. They might find that. So, no testing will protect them from that outcome. 

37 minutes ago, JCP108 said:

Um, they might find that the rate of people infected per million and deaths per million are similar to the rest of the world. They might find that. So, no testing will protect them from that outcome. 

But clearly the death rate is not.

46 minutes ago, sungod said:

But clearly the death rate is not.

Based on what data?

11 hours ago, JCP108 said:

Based on what data?

Hospitals are not overwhelmed, Wats are not overflowing with bodies, social media does not report it, WHO embedded with the Thai health care system does not report it, what else you want?

 

Are you even in Thailand? Life is pretty normal here except for tourism down.

Not bad Thailand...Europe is seeing a second surge, with Spain recording over 50k new cases this past week.

 

A Coronavirus Second Wave Grips Spain https://nyti.ms/3jIsEDh

On 8/31/2020 at 4:07 AM, RichardColeman said:

Thailand likes to claim that it is a medical hub - yet its testing is basically no better than African countries - like Ghana, zimbabwe, senegal and Kenya ! None of whom claim to medical hubs ! 

Why test for something that isn't there...should they be testing everyone for smallpox too?

17 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

The Gateway Pundit - OK then. According to the Media Bias/Fact Check website, that site is rated as:

 

 

It's a CDC study...reported by Gateway Pundit and most other major media outlets. Are they all "questionable" too?

 

https://disrn.com/news/new-cdc-report-says-94-of-covid-deaths-had-underlying-conditions

Edited September 1, 20205 yr by Pattaya Spotter

1 hour ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

It's a CDC study...reported by Gateway Pundit and most other major media outlets. Are they all "questionable" too?

 

https://disrn.com/news/new-cdc-report-says-94-of-covid-deaths-had-underlying-conditions

However if you actually read the CDC report, it does not say what the Gateway Pundit claims.

 

It says that only 6% of the people who died of Covid-19 had no other underlying condition. That's radically different from saying that the other 94% did not die of Covid-19.

 

The Gateway Pundit takes the CDC's actual findings and distorts them into something completely different.

20 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

However if you actually read the CDC report, it does not say what the Gateway Pundit claims.

 

It says that only 6% of the people who died of Covid-19 had no other underlying condition. That's radically different from saying that the other 94% did not die of Covid-19.

 

The Gateway Pundit takes the CDC's actual findings and distorts them into something completely different.

It's not just underlying conditions: it's comorbidity. Underlying conditions are only one type of comorbidity. Most of the comorbidity in Covid deaths are from Pneumonia... which is DIRECTLY CAUSED by Covid 19.

 

People absolutely have no idea what these stats means.

 

Let's say someone has a car crash, then bleeds out to death. The death certificate will list something like: cardiac arrest, caused by external hemorrhage, caused by trauma from car crash. Makes sense, right?

People arguing that only 6% have died from Covid are basically arguing that this person shouldn't be listed as a victim of a car crash because that's the cardiac arrest that killed him.

It's just utterly stupid.

 

Lucky Thailand

On 8/31/2020 at 7:12 PM, oompie69 said:

Don't shoot the messenger, rather check if the article contains false news. Fact checking websites also have their agendas.

Agree  with you. There are videos around stating that fact checking websites are on the payroll to

disapprove anything to do with Covid that does not fit the narrative.

Try searching google for anything negative as a starter. More or less the same headlines fill most of the pages. Very easy to manipulate when you are the ones in charge.

 

On 9/1/2020 at 9:00 AM, Pattaya Spotter said:

It's a CDC study...reported by Gateway Pundit and most other major media outlets. Are they all "questionable" too?

 

https://disrn.com/news/new-cdc-report-says-94-of-covid-deaths-had-underlying-conditions

You need to dig a bit deeper on these fact checking websites. Unfortunately many have there own agenda

On 8/31/2020 at 9:16 AM, sungod said:

So if we test everybody today and half of us have got it, what exactly changes?

Agree outside of creating fear. If its not broken dont try and fix it.

Noting the low rate of testing, it does appear nevertheless that Thailand has a low rate of infection with the CV. There may have been quite a few more related deaths amongst the rural poor, marked as 'pneumonia', and there have been 1 or 2 reports of an increase in pneumonia deaths since late last year. But overall the evidence for a massive infection/death rate is not there - no overwhelmed hospitals (at least no more than usual) ...

 

The real question is: Why & how has Thailand come through relatively unscathed? It would be hard to credit the Thai government with good policies and effective implementation for just about anything you can think of, let alone a worldwide pandemic.

 

Perhaps climate? (warmth vs colder countries - I note for instance that the maps of French CV infection always show far more infections inland in the east & centre than on the Atlantic coast). Cultural? (relative social distancing vs Western hugging'n kissing, noting that apart from old people's homes in the West the evidence points to most transmission taking place within the family) ... Poverty here is different from poverty in Western countries - more open-air, more physical exercise ...