More Centers Opened for COVID Cases Waiting for Hospital Beds

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BANGKOK, July 9 (TNA) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration opened two isolation centers for the people who were infected with COVID-19 and had to wait for hospital beds.

 

Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang inspected one of the new isolation facilities at Wat Sri Sudaram in Bangkok Noi district. With 90 beds, the center admitted infected people from their home and they would wait there for a few days before being sent to conventional and field hospitals under supervision by the medical personnel of the BMA.

 

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[connda]

I was reading a science article today.  One of the things that got my attention was the study's breakdown on "cohort characteristics."  The study was investigating the mechanics of immune response in previously infected Covid patients, an areas where there are plenty of "experts say" but up until this study, very little actual published research.

Here's what I found interesting because you never hear from the government about the demographics of 'severity' of Covid patients, especially here in Thailand.  Here in Thailand if you are tagged a PCR postive, the you are wisked away and incarcerated in a "hospital."  So the assumption is that everyone who contracts Covid becomes incredibly ill bordering on death.  In reality that is not the case.

The study consisted of 203 subjects who had been infected and had recovered for a minimum of 14 days.  This Danish study broke the subjects out by Covid infection severity¹.

^{1: Home/outpatients with no limitation of daily activities (8%),
2: Home/outpatients with a limitation of daily activities (75%), and
3: Hospitalized patients (17%).}
The takeaway here is that in Denmark (as in most Western countries) is that the vast majority of Covid patients recover at home, in this case 83% of the patients were "Home/outpatients" and only 17% of the Covid patient were considered sick enough to be hospitalize.  Take note of this because the study's statistics run counter to the 'commonly accepted narrative' being pushed by most media outlets that virtually all Covid patients are battling a deadly disease on par with the plague.

Thailand's government has purposefully placed itself in a situation where the capabilities of the healthcare system are being over burdened, and in the case of hospitals in Dark Red Zones, over burdened to the breaking point. 
Why?  I'll posit that it is completely a control issue.  The Thai (highly authoritarian) government wants every single PCR positive "case" to be incarcerated in a hospital and monitored.  Instead of mobilizing local and regional human resources and creating an electronic monitoring system (like the UK) to monitor the whereabouts of Covid patients recovering at home, the Thai government simply forces Covid positive "cases" into a quasi-imprisonment where health care staff act as both caregivers and guards.  It is not a tenable solution.  It's a train-wreak.

So is there any question as to why in many Covid Hot-Spots that the hospital capacity is bursting at the seams. 
It didn't need to be this way.  It still doesn't need to be this way.  Like in the Danish study, the vast majority of Covid patients could recover at home with approximately 1/5 sick enough to need hospitalization.  Hospitalize the serverly sick, monitor moderate, mild, and asymptomatic cases at home.

Together with the incredible negligence in procuring vaccines, the incredible negligence in containing the virus, the same people are now displaying incredible negligence in managing Covid "cases" within hospital settings.  I've stated since back at Songkran that their insistence to incarcerate "cases", regardless of severity, in hospital settings will break the healthcare system in the regions most effected.
And here we are.

Attribution:
^{1. EBioMedicine Published by The Lancet, Volume 68, June 2021, 103410
SARS-CoV-2 elicits robust adaptive immune responses regardless of disease severity, Stine SF Nielsen, et.al}
 

Edited July 10, 2021 by connda

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8 hours ago, connda said:

I was reading a science article today.  One of the things that got my attention was the study's breakdown on "cohort characteristics."  The study was investigating the mechanics of immune response in previously infected Covid patients, an areas where there are plenty of "experts say" but up until this study, very little actual published research.

Here's what I found interesting because you never hear from the government about the demographics of 'severity' of Covid patients, especially here in Thailand.  Here in Thailand if you are tagged a PCR postive, the you are wisked away and incarcerated in a "hospital."  So the assumption is that everyone who contracts Covid becomes incredibly ill bordering on death.  In reality that is not the case.

The study consisted of 203 subjects who had been infected and had recovered for a minimum of 14 days.  This Danish study broke the subjects out by Covid infection severity¹.

^{1: Home/outpatients with no limitation of daily activities (8%),
2: Home/outpatients with a limitation of daily activities (75%), and
3: Hospitalized patients (17%).}
The takeaway here is that in Denmark (as in most Western countries) is that the vast majority of Covid patients recover at home, in this case 83% of the patients were "Home/outpatients" and only 17% of the Covid patient were considered sick enough to be hospitalize.  Take note of this because the study's statistics run counter to the 'commonly accepted narrative' being pushed by most media outlets that virtually all Covid patients are battling a deadly disease on par with the plague.

Thailand's government has purposefully placed itself in a situation where the capabilities of the healthcare system are being over burdened, and in the case of hospitals in Dark Red Zones, over burdened to the breaking point. 
Why?  I'll posit that it is completely a control issue.  The Thai (highly authoritarian) government wants every single PCR positive "case" to be incarcerated in a hospital and monitored.  Instead of mobilizing local and regional human resources and creating an electronic monitoring system (like the UK) to monitor the whereabouts of Covid patients recovering at home, the Thai government simply forces Covid positive "cases" into a quasi-imprisonment where health care staff act as both caregivers and guards.  It is not a tenable solution.  It's a train-wreak.

So is there any question as to why in many Covid Hot-Spots that the hospital capacity is bursting at the seams. 
It didn't need to be this way.  It still doesn't need to be this way.  Like in the Danish study, the vast majority of Covid patients could recover at home with approximately 1/5 sick enough to need hospitalization.  Hospitalize the serverly sick, monitor moderate, mild, and asymptomatic cases at home.

Together with the incredible negligence in procuring vaccines, the incredible negligence in containing the virus, the same people are now displaying incredible negligence in managing Covid "cases" within hospital settings.  I've stated since back at Songkran that their insistence to incarcerate "cases", regardless of severity, in hospital settings will break the healthcare system in the regions most effected.
And here we are.

Attribution:
^{1. EBioMedicine Published by The Lancet, Volume 68, June 2021, 103410
SARS-CoV-2 elicits robust adaptive immune responses regardless of disease severity, Stine SF Nielsen, et.al}
 

Excellent piece, very interesting.