COVID new hospitalizations and deaths rise again to new weekly highs for 2023; serious condition hospitalizations and intubations decline

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

 

Thailand's recent COVID resurgence continued to worsen last week, with new weekly COVID hospitalizations and new COVID deaths for the week rising to set new highs for the year, despite some good news of declines in the numbers of serious condition hospitalizations and intubations.

 

The Thai Ministry of Health on Monday reported 3,085 new COVID hospitalizations for the week of May 28 to June 3, up 3.9% from the 2,970 reported the week before. New COVID deaths for the latest week hit 68, up 62% from the 42 reported the week before, and slightly higher than the 64 reported two weeks ago.

 

The latest weekly new hospitalization and new deaths figures are the highest thus far in  2023. For last week, new COVID hospitalizations were averaging 440 per day, while COVID deaths were averaging nine per day.

 

With Monday's update, new weekly COVID hospitalizations in Thailand have now increased for nine of the past 10 weeks since the country's seasonal COVID surge began at the beginning of April in the lead-up to the country's annual Song Kran holidays and its spike in domestic and international travel.

 

The latest new hospitalizations tally is 18 times higher than the 167 reported at the beginning of April. The latest new deaths tally is nearly 23 times the 3 weekly deaths reported at the beginning of April.

 

There were several glimmers of good news in the latest data, meanwhile. The latest 3.9% weekly increase in new COVID hospitalizations represents a smaller increase than the nearly 13% increase of two weeks ago, perhaps suggesting a slowing upward trend if that pattern holds in the coming weeks.

 

Also, the tally of COVID hospitalized patients listed in serious condition declined 9.2% from 425 two weeks ago, which was a year-high, to 386 last week. Though the latest number is still nearly 13 times higher than the 30 serious COVID hospitalizations reported at the beginning of April.

 

Likewise, the tally of COVID hospitalized patients requiring intubation in order to breath fell by 4% from 253 two weeks ago, also a year-high, to 243 last week. Though the latest number also is nearly 12 times higher than the 21 COVID intubations reported at the beginning of April.

 

Monday's update represented the first time in 2023 that new weekly COVID hospitalizations in Thailand surpassed the 3,000 threshold. The Thai government last fall stopped officially counting and reporting regular COVID infections and positive tests, and since then has only counted COVID hospitalizations as the country's tally of COVID "cases."

 

According to the latest MoPH update, cumulative COVID hospitalizations in 2023 have now totaled 21,124, while total COVID deaths for the year have now reached 494.

 

As has been their practice of late, the Thai MoPH in their posted update provided no demographic details -- ages, vaccination status, nationalities, etc. -- about the latest COVID hospitalizations and deaths.

 

 

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

 

 

Edited June 5, 2023 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

A Thai PBS report today adds the following details:

 

Regarding the new deaths:

 

"97% of whom were over 60 or had underlying diseases."

 

"It was also discovered that 45.6% of those who perished had not received a vaccine booster shot for over three months or had not received two vaccine shots."

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/children-under-12-months-old-should-be-vaccinated-against-covid-19/

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1296927-children-under-12-months-old-should-be-vaccinated-against-covid-19/

 

 

 

Edited June 5, 2023 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[ChipButty]

A friend of mine went to China last week he came back Friday on Sunday morning tested positive for covid, Friday night him and his wife and my wife went for a BBQ thank fully we are all ok, 

[kwilco]

6 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

A Thai PBS report today adds the following details:

 

Regarding the new deaths:

 

"97% of whom were over 60 or had underlying diseases."

 

"It was also discovered that 45.6% of those who perished had not received a vaccine booster shot for over three months or had not received two vaccine shots."

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/children-under-12-months-old-should-be-vaccinated-against-covid-19/

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1296927-children-under-12-months-old-should-be-vaccinated-against-covid-19/

 

 

 

Your argument is easy dispatched by looking at the excess death rates

[ozimoron]

1 minute ago, kwilco said:

Your argument is easy dispatched by looking at the excess death rates

All of which show massively higher death rates than official figures.

Edited June 5, 2023 by ozimoron

[kwilco]

3 hours ago, ozimoron said:

All of which show massively higher death rates than official figures.

Yes - according to the Office for National Statistics, there have been about 170,000 excess deaths in England and Wales during the period of Covid. I'm sure that Thailand will show similar figures.. These figures override the "excuses" given about underlying conditions as they wouldn't affect the general death rate.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

New weekly update from the Thai Ministry of Public Health: