6 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Impossible because Phuket will be 100% fully vaccinated by tomorrow ????

 

Im sure by year end the figure quoted will be around 120%

(Math Thailand not same same.

very strong, can go over 100% no plobrem)

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Agreement signed for donation of 1.05m doses of AstraZeneca vaccine by Japan to Thailand

An agreement was signed, between the Thai and Japanese governments today (Tuesday), for the donation by Japan of 1.05 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, with the delivery to Thailand scheduled on July 9th.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/agreement-signed-for-donation-of-1-05m-doses-of-astrazeneca-vaccine-by-japan-to-thailand/

Whatever it takes. If the country has to beg, then beg. Too late for pride now. The vaccine is needed. 1 mil is a drop in a bucket, but every drop counts.

 

I take it this is the donation announced a few days ago at the opening of the bio science lab in Bangkok financed by Japan.

7 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

No I did not fail to notice that, we are limited on the amount of quote we are allowed to put from an article due to fair use policy, the link was provided for all to read the full article, happy you read it all and got to the part you found most important for you

 @Bkk Brian and @placeholder

 

I was noticing tonight that the British Heart Foundation has a pretty good website updated thru late June that summarizes the various effectiveness findings of the three main western vaccines (AZ, Pfizer and Moderna) against each the various main virus variants.

 

https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/covid-variant#Boxford

 

In doing some searching around, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of findings re the effectiveness of the AZ vaccine against the Beta / South African variant other than the one relatively small trial results study from South Africa conducted during the second half of 2020.

 

The 10% figure Brian quoted was for preventing mild to moderate COVID infections with the Beta strain two weeks after the second dose. The same study also had no hospitalizations or deaths from COVID among AZ vaccine recipients. But the median participant age was only 30, so not really clear how much the latter finding means.

 

Fortunately or unfortunately, as the case may be, it sounds like the Delta variant from India is likely to become predominant in Thailand in the future after overtaking the current leading Alpha / UK variant.

 

And the study data coming out of the UK regarding the AZ vaccine and the Delta variant seems to be pretty good -- 92% effective in preventing hospitalizations and no deaths two weeks after the second dose, and 60% effective against symptomatic infection.

 

Regarding the AZ vaccine and the Alpha variant from the UK, the data thus far is showing 66-70% effective in preventing symptomatic disease, and as yet unpublished data showing 86% reduction in hospitalizations and no deaths.

 

Unfortunately, the BHF website hasn't pulled in the same kinds of effectiveness data regarding either the Sinovac or Sinopharm vaccines from China in terms of the various virus variant strains.

 

 

COVID-19: Thailand reports new daily record of 53 deaths; 4,786 new cases

 

REUTERS FILE PHOTO for reference only
 

Thailand on Wednesday (June 30) reported 4,786 new COVID-19 cases and 53 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222160-covid-19-thailand-reports-new-daily-record-of-53-deaths-4786-new-cases/

 

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