Thailand Reports World's First Death From New Covid Variant Arcturus

[webfact]

The first Arcturus fatality recorded in Thailand. (Representative Image)

 

Dr. Supakit Sirilak, director-general of the medical sciences department in Thailand, claims that an old man there died of the Arcturus form

 

by Nikhil Pandey

 

The COVID-19's new variant, Arcturus, has triggered alarm around the world as it claimed its first victim, Thailand's health officials have announced.

According to The Independent, the first death from the Arcturus strain, thought to be around 1.2 times more infectious than the last major sub-variant, was recorded in Thailand yesterday, amid a surge in cases across the globe.

 

"A total of 27 cases of XBB.1.16 had been detected in Thailand as of April 17, and one of these had died," Thai PBS World quoted Dr. Sirilak as saying.

 

"The dead person was an elderly foreigner with underlying health conditions.

 

Full story: https://www.ndtv.com/feature/thailand-reports-worlds-first-death-from-new-covid-variant-arcturus-3967852

 

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[smedly]

died of or died with

 

clearly this person was compromised making the report pointless

 

how many people die of flu 

 

RIP

[Thaiwrath]

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

"The dead person was an elderly foreigner with underlying health conditions.

The full paragraph from the attached ndtv article:

 

"The dead person was an elderly foreigner with underlying health conditions. His death, therefore, may not directly reflect the severity of this subvariant but rather its impact on other risk factors," Supakit said.

 

Sort of clarifies it !

 

[dinsdale]

6 minutes ago, smedly said:

died of or died with

 

clearly this person was compromised making the report pointless

 

how many people die of flu 

 

RIP

Bit of an old story now. This happened pre 17th of this month.

"The dead person was an elderly foreigner with underlying health conditions. His death, therefore, may not directly reflect the severity of this subvariant but rather its impact on other risk factors," Supakit said.

https://www.ndtv.com/feature/thailand-reports-worlds-first-death-from-new-covid-variant-arcturus-3967852

So this old fella was the 1st. Yet to see anything about the 2nd. All a bit of a storm in a teacup.

 

[stoner]

why all of a sudden more concern about covid ....could it be that time of the month. 

 

what a farce. scare scare scare scare. be so afraid. 

[jacko45k]

30 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

The full paragraph from the attached ndtv article:

 

"The dead person was an elderly foreigner with underlying health conditions. His death, therefore, may not directly reflect the severity of this subvariant but rather its impact on other risk factors," Supakit said.

 

Sort of clarifies it !

 

It does yes...'it can kill some people!'

[sherwood]

Thailand number ONE!!

[dinsdale]

23 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

It does yes...'it can kill some people!'

Absolutely correct. So far one person has died with, not from XBB.1.16. Due to the infectious nature of Omicron this number is sure to rise but there is no evidence so far to suggest that it will be from XBB.1.16 rather than with XBB.1.16.

 

55 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

"The dead person was an elderly foreigner with underlying health conditions. His death, therefore, may not directly reflect the severity of this subvariant but rather its impact on other risk factors,"

Basically there have been no deaths directly attributed to XBB.1.16 as the cause so far. Did XBB.1.16 contribute to the death of the elderly gentalman. Possibly but this has not been explicity stated.

[BritScot]

7 hours ago, smedly said:

died of or died with

 

clearly this person was compromised making the report pointless

 

how many people die of flu 

 

RIP

In the uk on average between 30,000 and 40,000 die from flu every year however the strangest of things happened in 2020/21 Zero deaths from flu!! Now go check UK.GOV website for more eye opening facts... Also in the uk the figures are always adjusted down as those who were terminally ill are removed from the annual figures. Die from not die with. When will this nonsense stop.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

6 hours ago, stoner said:

why all of a sudden more concern about covid ....could it be that time of the month. 

 

 

Or it could more likely be that Thailand's number of COVID hospitalizations more than doubled to an average of 62 PER DAY earlier this month, compared to the week before...  And probably will go higher still when last week's latest numbers are soon released.

 

[Puccini]

Referring to the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16 as "the Covid-19's new variant, Arcturus" is confusing.

 

How did XBB.1.16 get the nickname Arcturus? The nearest thing to an answer I could find is this, from an article in the Times of India:
 

Quote

XBB.1.16—which a group of scientists on Twitter nicknamed “Arcturus”—is one of more than 600 Omicron subvariants that are currently circulating.

 

 

I also found that there is the company Arcturus Therapeutics, Inc. in the USA currently doing clinical trials with a new mRNA Covid-19 vaccine. Were perhaps "scientists" connected with the vaccine research at Arcturus Therapeutics initiating and spreading the nickname Arcturus for XBB.1.16?

[Photoguy21]

So was it the infection or the underlying symptoms that killed them? Doesnt sound like it was infection that ended their life.

[chalawaan]

Here we go again...

If this insanity continues, we will all eventually either go mad go broke, or starve trying to dodge Covid. 

Our Governments should spend the cash and energy to blockade, not sanction, but physically a Navy blockade of CCP until they pay the UN trillions in reparations. Not for causing Covid (tho the jury is still out) but for responding in such a way that made it become a multi-year pandemic.

[chalawaan]

15 minutes ago, Puccini said:

Referring to the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16 as "the Covid-19's new variant, Arcturus" is confusing.

 

How did XBB.1.16 get the nickname Arcturus? The nearest thing to an answer I could find is this, from an article in the Times of India:
 

I also found that there is the company Arcturus Therapeutics, Inc. in the USA currently doing clinical trials with a new mRNA Covid-19 vaccine. Were perhaps "scientists" connected with the vaccine research at Arcturus Therapeutics initiating and spreading the nickname Arcturus for XBB.1.16?

Did you know Xi (a Greek alphabet symbol) was the original name for Omicron?

 

But the wet-wipes at the WHO were scared of hurting Winnie the Flu's feelings. 

[Puccini]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

The COVID-19's new variant, Arcturus, has triggered alarm around the world as it claimed its first victim, Thailand's health officials have announced.

Sometimes, I have a problem with the English language. Do I understand correctly that Thai health officials have announced that the death of this man who was infected with the Omicron variant XBB.1.16 has triggered alarm around the world?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

40 minutes ago, Puccini said:

Referring to the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16 as "the Covid-19's new variant, Arcturus" is confusing.

Apparently, it's still just a given nickname, not an official name for the variant....

 

"Now, Honey used the name “Arcturus.” But, remember, that name ain’t official, just like “Kraken” and “Orthus” names of earlier emerging subvariants weren’t official either. It’s just that the continued use of letter and number combos that sound more like Star Wars droids has made it more difficult for the general public to keep track of these different Omicron subvariants. That’s prompted folks on social media to create and use their own unofficial nicknames, to grin and bear it in a way. “Arcturus” is actually a Latinized version of the ancient Greek name Arktouros, which means “Guardian of the Bear,”

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/04/16/xbb116-arcturus-is-new-covid-19-variant-under-monitoring-by-the-who/?sh=4291f5d74224

 

If you look thru the WHO's documents, you'll still see just XBB.1.15 and XBB.1.16, etc.

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

10 minutes ago, Puccini said:

Sometimes, I have a problem with the English language. Do I understand correctly that Thai health officials have announced that the death of this man who was infected with the Omicron variant XBB.1.16 has triggered alarm around the world?

 

The new variant has, not Thailand's reported death.  Because the variant is much more contagious than its predecessors, and appears better able to evade protections from prior vaccinations and COVID infections.

 

"Due to its estimated growth advantage and immune escape characteristics, XBB.1.16 may spread globally and contribute to an increase in case incidence. However, at present, there is no early signal of an increase in severity. The initial XBB.1.16 risk assessment is ongoing and is expected to be published in the coming days."

 

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20230420_weekly_epi_update_139.pdf?sfvrsn=c432eac8_3&download=true

 

 

[Puccini]

11 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Apparently, it's still just a given nickname, not an official name for the variant...

....

If you look thru the WHO's documents, you'll still see just XBB.1.15 and XBB.1.16, etc.

 

That's what the confusion is all about. The first thing I did when I read the OP was a search of the entire website of the World Health Organisation (WHO) with the word Acturus and I did not get even one result.

[sandyf]

9 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Bit of an old story now. This happened pre 17th of this month.

"The dead person was an elderly foreigner with underlying health conditions. His death, therefore, may not directly reflect the severity of this subvariant but rather its impact on other risk factors," Supakit said.

https://www.ndtv.com/feature/thailand-reports-worlds-first-death-from-new-covid-variant-arcturus-3967852

So this old fella was the 1st. Yet to see anything about the 2nd. All a bit of a storm in a teacup.

 

Quite. I saw this on BBC news a few days ago, thought the forum would be red hot the following morning.

Storm in a teacup comes to mind.

[onthedarkside]

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[GroveHillWanderer]

3 hours ago, BritScot said:

In the uk on average between 30,000 and 40,000 die from flu every year however the strangest of things happened in 2020/21 Zero deaths from flu!! Now go check UK.GOV website for more eye opening facts... 

That's not true as far as I can tell.

 

According to the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS):

 

Quote

The number of deaths due to flu and pneumonia fell below 20,000 in 2020 for the first time since 1948, before reaching a record low of 16,237 in 2021. This decrease during the coronavirus pandemic could be linked to restrictions that limited social contact.

Covid 19 compared to flu as cause of death

 

And, as the same source also pointed out:

 

Quote

... death certificates likely underestimate flu deaths because not all patients are tested for it, and circulating flu causes increases in deaths due to other conditions such as cardiovascular diseases.

 

[Peterphuket]

11 hours ago, smedly said:

died of or died with

 

clearly this person was compromised making the report pointless

 

how many people die of flu 

 

RIP

Exactly, we all die one day.

Panicking can always be done.

Apparently they have not yet learned their lesson with the covid period, with a spillover risk of 0.8%.

[GroveHillWanderer]

3 hours ago, chalawaan said:

Did you know Xi (a Greek alphabet symbol) was the original name for Omicron?

 

But the wet-wipes at the WHO were scared of hurting Winnie the Flu's feelings. 

That's not quite accurate. If the naming convention had just automatically followed the Greek alphabet in the correct order, the name for the variant should have been Nu. So the WHO was already not following Greek alphabetical order automatically by not calling it Nu and continued not automatically following it by not using Xi either.

 

Nu was not used because it sounded too much like "new" and Xi was not used because it is a common family name and so violated the rule on not using personal names as designations for diseases.

[Stargeezr]

Why Arcturus? I think of Arcturus as a space term, and not some disease.

  Drats I say.

[Pink Mist]

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