BA.2 sub variant of Omicron becoming dominant strain in Thailand

[tandor]

3 hours ago, BadSpottedDog said:

This is not true in all cases. My 80 yr old Mom, who has nodules on her lungs & late stage Alzheimer's, cannot be and is not vaccinated. She recently got covid, had a mild fever for a day, and occasional cough for 3 days, then it was gone. 
On the other hand, I have 3 friends (in their 50s), triple vaxed, that were hospitalized with serious covid cases.
There is no one size fits all.

...that's what i said...'personal reasons'...includes immuno-compromised folk and those who are strongly advised by their GP to not be vaccinated. Re your friends, of course there are those who will still succumb, this is determined by a number of factors, plus what variant they picked up. Of course my reply was targetted at someone else who seems to think it is all over..you understand me now friend?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

17 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Tell that to the 65 people in Thailand who died of COVID yesterday, and the more than 1,100 COVID cases hospitalized in serious condition right now.... with both numbers rising almost daily and at record highs for 2022.

 

It may be "over" for the dead, but not for everyone else.

 

 

Thailand official new COVID daily cases declining, but COVID death and serious hospitalization numbers rose again today, as reported earlier by the Ministry of Public Health. New record daily highs for COVID deaths and serious hospitalizations for the year, yet again.

 

 

 

 

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=main

 

[Stefanix]

On 3/7/2022 at 1:45 PM, peter zwart said:

Can we please have another vaccine?

Shaken or stirred?

[Dan O]

On 3/7/2022 at 10:03 AM, Blumpie said:

I tested positive four days ago!  ????  Do you know what I had for symptoms?  I had 2 naps during the day, felt tired and a runny nose and a headache.  It wasn't even a cold.  I am 100 percent now.  

What a frigging joke it was!  

Get real kids - this thing is over.  

Where you vaccinated?

[Dan O]

5 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Thailand official new COVID daily cases declining, but COVID death and serious hospitalization numbers rose again today, as reported earlier by the Ministry of Public Health. New record daily highs for COVID deaths and serious hospitalizations for the year, yet again.

 

 

 

 

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=main

 

Positive PCR test are declining but the govt and population has been switching to ATK for weeks now.  Those number are steady climbing and unfortunately the are hiding real numbers since ATK is not counted unless a confirming PCR is done.  most people are not doing follow up testing, the govt isnt recommending it and a vast majority test at home and aren't even counted in the Probable category since no one knows they tested.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, Dan O said:

Positive PCR test are declining but the govt and population has been switching to ATK for weeks now.  Those number are steady climbing and unfortunately the are hiding real numbers since ATK is not counted unless a confirming PCR is done.  most people are not doing follow up testing, the govt isnt recommending it and a vast majority test at home and aren't even counted in the Probable category since no one knows they tested.

 

If you notice in the charts I posted above, the second column in on the top chart shows the ATK test positives as a separate tally, and those too have been dropping in recent days. As has the combined total of official RT-PCR confirmed COVID cases and the unofficial ATK-derived ones.

 

It's just the deaths and serious hospitalizations that, at least for now, are continuing to rise in terms of the official stats.

 

However, it's worth pointing out, a person can think they've caught COVID, do their own ATK test at home, have it show positive, and then just stay home to hopefully ride it out. And that's never going to get reported even as an ATK case in the government's tally.  And there probably are a lot of those these days.

 

But still, the officially reported case numbers that were going up steadily before lately now have started dropping  -- for who knows what reasons...

 

 

[jacko45k]

6 hours ago, Dan O said:

Where you vaccinated?

In the shoulder.

[StevieAus]

On 3/8/2022 at 5:05 PM, tandor said:

most countries are waiting for the U5 vaccines to finish stage 3 of the trials, then approval by WHO...could be some time.

Thanks for the update

[BadSpottedDog]

On 3/8/2022 at 6:55 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Thailand official new COVID daily cases declining, but COVID death and serious hospitalization numbers rose again today, as reported earlier by the Ministry of Public Health. New record daily highs for COVID deaths and serious hospitalizations for the year, yet again.

 

 

 

 

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=main

 

Just curious. How many of the people indicated in these numbers were vaccinated? Are they publishing that data at all? It seems it would be important.

[TropicalGuy]

On 3/7/2022 at 9:38 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Omicron, the original BA1 version, became the dominant strain in Thailand around the beginning of the year, eclipsing last year's Delta.

 

Now, the newer BA2 strain of Omicron is headed toward eclipsing the original BA1 Omicron strain.

 

BA2 is more contagious than BA1. Just as BA1 is/was more contagious than Delta.  But I haven't heard that the newer BA2 causes worse health problems...

 

My farang friend triple jabbed with western vax fit 55 feeling very rough today . Must be BA2 Covid.