Use of schools, temples instead of homes proposed for asymptomatic, mild COVID-19 cases

[snoop1130]

This handout from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration taken and released on April 21, 2021 shows beds and items provided to patients in a field hospital set up in the Bangkok Arena indoor multi-purpose sporting venue to accomodate an upsurge in the number of Covid-19 coronavirus cases in the country. (Photo by Handout / BANGKOK METROPOLITAN ADMINISTRATION / AFP)

 

A senior doctor, at the Faculty of Medicine of Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University, has expressed concern over the idea of home isolation for asymptomatic COVID-19 patients, or those with mild symptoms, saying that this may cause the spread of the disease among family members.

 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thira Woratanarat said in his Facebook post today (Wednesday) that, according to current medical knowledge, the risk of disease transmission among family members is about 30%, which is rather high and there is a possibility that the home isolation policy, if implemented, will result in increased infections among family members and the disease may then spread to other parts of society, because some family members may decide to leave their home.

 

Citing the case of an infected elderly woman, who decided to camp out in front of Nang Lerng police station, because she did not want to infect her family, he said that this should be a case study for greater caution regarding the home isolation policy, because most homes do not have enough space for the infected to live separately from the others.

 

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[RotBenz8888]

16 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

because some family members may decide to leave their home.

 

I'm sure theyre able to stay home from work, but doubt they can stay away from 7/11.

[Salerno]

17 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

according to current medical knowledge, the risk of disease transmission among family members is about 30%, which is rather high

 

Not as high as Delta and Delta+ which is infecting whole families,

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thira Woratanarat said in his Facebook post today (Wednesday) that, according to current medical knowledge, the risk of disease transmission among family members is about 30%, which is rather high and there is a possibility that the home isolation policy, if implemented, will result in increased infections among family members and the disease may then spread to other parts of society, because some family members may decide to leave their home.

Only 30%... knowing Thais penchant for straying I'd double that figure.

[law ling]

As many have noted in other threads: many Thais live in small rooms, often without a kitchen and often with other family or friends ... so "at home" isolation was never a smart plan for many here.

 

Wow, 18 months into the  pandemic and the authorities are still just mulling over different plans - just reactive here, little proactive forward planning.

 

Seems they just deal with today's problems (or not) - and then off to lunch.

[connda]

What is of constant concern to me is the government insistence of placing all those with a postive PCR in close proximity to each other instead of allowing patients to recover at home, or for truly asymptomatic (those who may have had a false positive and are not infected) to allow them to quarantine at home.  Placing people in this high density hospital ward is pretty much a death sentence from the elderly and infirm - and yet that is exactly what they do.  Imho it's criminal.

[unblocktheplanet]

This is a GREAT solution! Empty schools & monks for comfort. We've all read lots of cases where family members were infected & died.

[Megasin1]

at last, a reference to "mild cases", as I said before as most cases reported are hospital walk-ins it was illogical to say they were asymptomatic, as just how many people would go for a test if they had no symptoms ? So in an overwhelmed position "mild" cases will soon be isolating at home, let's hope that this is done properly but also that if those mild cases worsen there is the correct support and care for them and home care just doesn't become no care.

[dinsdale]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thira Woratanarat said in his Facebook post today (Wednesday) that, according to current medical knowledge, the risk of disease transmission among family members is about 30%

Just goes to show how much the 'experts' here know. Delta is put at 60% transmissable and in Australia they are saying 100% in family settings.

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, connda said:

or for truly asymptomatic (those who may have had a false positive and are not infected) to allow them to quarantine at home. 

Well hard to determine, but  I thought that was now the plan for the healthy, under 60s.