Covid surge: Songkran revellers urged to avoid elderly and sick relatives

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

 

The Department of Disease Control on Sunday warned Songkran revellers to monitor themselves for at least seven days before coming in close contact with the elderly and vulnerable people for fear of spreading the Covid virus.

 

The department issued the warning after the Covid infection rate surged by 250% during the week to April 15 from the previous week.

 

Department director-general Tharet Krutnairawiwong said 435 patients were admitted to hospital for treatment of Covid-19 between April 9 and 15, about 62 cases per day. Of the number, 30 had lung inflammation and 19 were put on ventilators, up 58% and 36% respectively, from the previous week."

 

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https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40026704

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

When the government here says the "COVID infection rate surged," what they're really talking about (and counting) are the rates of new COVID patient hospitalizations. Because, they don't actually track or count mere COVID cases anymore....

 

So, April 9 - 15 was:

 

"435 patients were admitted to hospital for treatment of Covid-19 between April 9 and 15, about 62 cases per day."

 

And the prior week April 2 to 8 was:

 

168 new COVID hospitalizations for the week, averaging 24 per day

 

Via Google Translate:

 

"Keep track of the weekly total of COVID-19 cases.

Between 2 - 8 April 2023
Hospitalized patients (weekly)
Number of 168 cases : Daily average of 24 cases/day

Fatalities (Weekly)
2 case : daily average 0 case/day
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Accumulated 5,048 hospitalized patients (since January 1, 2023)
Accumulated 271 deaths (since January 1, 2023)"

 

 

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Edited April 16, 2023 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[stoner]

full lockdown until the end of 2024 is needed.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

3 minutes ago, stoner said:

full lockdown until the end of 2024 is needed.

I've been "locked down" at home for the past 4-5 days, and it had absolutely nothing to do with COVID....  ????

 

But for a virus/disease that some people wrongly claim poses no health risk, it's sure putting hundreds of people in Thailand into hospitals...

 

And, for sure, no one really wants to spend their Song Kran holidays hospitalized, if they don't really need to be there.

 

[TheFishman1]

He forgot to mention if you live in Chiangmai, you may have a lung infection due to the pollution in the air hair. It’s terrible TIT.

[stoner]

8 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

But for a virus/disease that some people wrongly claim poses no health risk, it's sure putting hundreds of people in Thailand into hospitals...

so less people than road accidents. seems quite the huge threat now.

[NoshowJones]

13 hours ago, stoner said:

full lockdown until the end of 2024 is needed.

Be careful, this Cvirus made an hell of a lot of the medical profession very rich and they will be looking for excuses to help their bank balances with this virus, or some other virus.

[Skeptic7]

????????

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

2 hours ago, NoshowJones said:

Be careful, this Cvirus made an hell of a lot of the medical profession very rich

It also made a hell of a lot of people very sick and dead.... and vastly more would have been even sicker or died were it not for the medical professionals who treated them and the vaccines developed for COVID.

 

"Globally, as of 10:11am CEST, 12 April 2023, there have been 762,791,152 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,897,025 deaths, reported to WHO."

 

https://covid19.who.int/

 

"WHO estimates that between 80 000 and 180 000 health and care workers could have died from COVID-19 in the period between January 2020 to May 2021, converging to a medium scenario of 115 500 deaths¹."

 

https://www.who.int/news/item/20-10-2021-health-and-care-worker-deaths-during-covid-19

 

 

[NoshowJones]

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

It also made a hell of a lot of people very sick and dead.... and vastly more would have been even sicker or died were it not for the medical professionals who treated them and the vaccines developed for COVID.

 

"Globally, as of 10:11am CEST, 12 April 2023, there have been 762,791,152 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,897,025 deaths, reported to WHO."

 

https://covid19.who.int/

 

"WHO estimates that between 80 000 and 180 000 health and care workers could have died from COVID-19 in the period between January 2020 to May 2021, converging to a medium scenario of 115 500 deaths¹."

 

https://www.who.int/news/item/20-10-2021-health-and-care-worker-deaths-during-covid-19

 

 

When I say the medical profession, I do not mean the dedicated doctors and nurses, I mean the penpushers at the top who work on the financials.

[Caldera]

On 4/16/2023 at 8:33 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

The Department of Disease Control on Sunday warned Songkran revellers to monitor themselves for at least seven days before coming in close contact with the elderly and vulnerable people for fear of spreading the Covid virus.

It's safe to say that this didn't happen.