Now Which of These Will Be The Last One On The List For The Government to Approve and What Would Do the Most Good.

[Thomas J]

1. Banning all international flights
2. Requiring Quarantine for all including incoming arrivals that are vaccinated
3. Requiring two or more occupants in a vehicle to be masked
4. Requiring sheets or small pieces of paper with your name and telephone number to contact trace
5. Stopping the sale of all alcohol at restaurants
6.  Shutting all bars, gyms, pools, beaches, parks, and gatherings of 50 or more people. 
7. Restricted hours for businesses
8. Shopping for only "essential" goods
9. Requiring temperature checks to enter a business
10.  Approval of Covid vaccines.

And the winner is allowing hospitals to actually procure vaccines but limited to only 10 million doses as if the hospitals are going to buy more than they need or should be limited to 10 million doses if they have enough patients who are requesting them. 

 

 

https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG210410135113447

[internationalism]

this news is over 2 months old.

yes, it's still shocking and still there are no vax at private hospitals.

and nobody knows when they will

[chilly07]

Profit sharing with Private Hospitals is not as lucrative as profit sharing with Big Pharma. Next thing will be lobbying for government to be privatised to make it more lucrative/efficient. Wait a minute they have already done this!

[Thomas J]

13 minutes ago, chilly07 said:

Profit sharing with Private Hospitals is not as lucrative as profit sharing with Big Pharma. Next thing will be lobbying for government to be privatised to make it more lucrative/efficient. Wait a minute they have already done this!

I guess however they say that a single shot of Johnson & Johnson will be about 300 baht.  In Thailand the hospital association has already set the price at 3,800 thb for two doses of Moderna. 

President Ronald Reagan once had calculated there were 151 different taxes imposed on a loaf of bread from the time the wheat was grown to the time it was sold.  Those taxes amounted to over 50% of the cost of the bread.  If they can include "graft" in the price of the vaccines and still sell it at those prices so be it.   

The important issue is availability and the Thai government seems to have for some unexplained reason thrown road blocks in front of the private hospitals.  Perhaps it is the image of foreigners getting Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson at the private hospitals while Thai's getting limited quantities of Sinovac while waiting in extremely long waiting lines that the government is trying to avoid. 

[mrwebb8825]

On 6/16/2021 at 2:18 PM, Thomas J said:

And the winner is allowing hospitals to actually procure vaccines but limited to only 10 million doses as if the hospitals are going to buy more than they need or should be limited to 10 million doses if they have enough patients who are requesting them.

The 1 thing that concerns me about this is only getting the 1st shot. As flakey as this government is; what happens when they allow the 1st round then change their minds because someone didn't get their cut and refuse the 2nd shot being ordered?

[Thomas J]

7 hours ago, mrwebb8825 said:

The 1 thing that concerns me about this is only getting the 1st shot. As flakey as this government is; what happens when they allow the 1st round then change their minds because someone didn't get their cut and refuse the 2nd shot being ordered?

You could be right.  I have wondered if there was not an "incentive" to delay the introduction of the Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson vaccines in favor or the Chinese Sinovac.  Seems strange that 1. the vaccines the majority of the Western world had already approved and shown to be the most effective, were still be studied for approval here in Thailand  2. that the vaccines were not put on order, (which could be cancelled) as soon as they became available and 3. that the private hospitals would have any sort of prohibition on obtaining the vaccines. After all, was not the intent of everyone to prevent the spread and infection of Covid. 

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21 hours ago, Thomas J said:

You could be right.  I have wondered if there was not an "incentive" to delay the introduction of the Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson vaccines in favor or the Chinese Sinovac.  Seems strange that 1. the vaccines the majority of the Western world had already approved and shown to be the most effective, were still be studied for approval here in Thailand  2. that the vaccines were not put on order, (which could be cancelled) as soon as they became available and 3. that the private hospitals would have any sort of prohibition on obtaining the vaccines. After all, was not the intent of everyone to prevent the spread and infection of Covid. 

Actually, it's very hard to get all kinds of medications that are commonly available in the west. Probably due to protectionism as regards Thailand's pharmaceutical industries.

In this particular case there's another consideration as well.