Opinion: Thailand has to gradually stop worrying about new infection numbers

[Trvlr55]

36 minutes ago, Trvlr55 said:

not really!

https://www.who.int/news/item/13-12-2017-up-to-650-000-people-die-of-respiratory-diseases-linked-to-seasonal-flu-each-year

 

OK. I was only thinking US as I don't track global, and was projecting a bit ahead of it now, but the vaccine was only starting to be marginally available late January this year, and slowing released to more of the US population, vs. the flu where there's always vaccines available.

 

650k vs 719k,

so not really that far off, and this "now that US has 3 very good vaccines available to anyone over 12 and older, is very rapidly falling.

 

also in US due to how insurance and other things, many not really covid deaths are counted. Anyone dies, of anything, and had covid, it's a covid death. Any dies, and they had the flu, not counted the same.

Also this from US CDC ~44k from Pneumonia, unclear to me currently, if this is part of the 650K number, but suspect it is, and this is with 70% of seniors vaccinated... so to me, is maybe more dangerous to seniors then covid is to fully covid vaccinated seniors.

[ALLSEEINGEYE]

2 hours ago, Trvlr55 said:

Also this from US CDC ~44k from Pneumonia, unclear to me currently, if this is part of the 650K number, but suspect it is, and this is with 70% of seniors vaccinated... so to me, is maybe more dangerous to seniors then covid is to fully covid vaccinated seniors.

So how is 650k deaths per year globally form annual flu higher than the amount of deaths from Covid? Less than 2 years into Covid and the global death toll is almost 5 million. 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#page-top

[Trvlr55]

29 minutes ago, ALLSEEINGEYE said:

So how is 650k deaths per year globally form annual flu higher than the amount of deaths from Covid? Less than 2 years into Covid and the global death toll is almost 5 million. 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#page-top

oh my, didn't read my post apparently. those figures 650k and 700k+ were both "only" US numbers. US has had Phisher and Moderna vaccines available since mid January. Not talking about the entire world, where in some places there is still almost none. Thailand ratios should come in around the same soon. Additionally the 650k was not deaths, it was reported infections... a huge difference.