Expect Increase in COVID-19 Cases as School Term Approaches

[snoop1130]

 

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) in Bangkok recently reported an increase in COVID-19 cases following the Songkran holiday. They believe the number of infections could continue to rise as schools start their new term. Between April 28 and May 4, the data showed that 1,792 people were admitted to hospitals with COVID-19, meaning there were about 256 cases each day. During this period, 12 people died from the virus. Since the start of the year, there have been 13,057 infections and 93 deaths.

 

Dr. Taweechai Wisanuyothin, the Director of the Region 9 Disease Control Office based in Nakhon Ratchasima, said that even though many people with COVID-19 only show mild symptoms right now, it is still very dangerous for certain groups of people. These at-risk individuals include those over 60 years old, people with certain health conditions, and pregnant women in their third trimester. These groups are referred to as the "608 group".

 

Dr. Taweechai urged people to continue taking precautions to prevent the spread of the virus, especially since schools are reopening. These include washing hands often, steering clear of crowded areas, and wearing masks in places with many people. He noted that the recent increase in cases, mostly caused by the Omicron variant, is partly because people mistake COVID-19 symptoms for a regular flu. He suggested that anyone showing flu-like symptoms should get a COVID-19 test to stop the virus from spreading further.

 

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-- 2024-05-08

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[dinsdale]

Noooooooooooo! I was told a couple of weeks ago by someone very high up in a provincial government health dept that the Mayors of Bangkok and Samut Sakhon are keeping a close eye on infection rates and may delay school opennings. Haven't these people learnt anything?

"He noted that the recent increase in cases, mostly caused by the Omicron variant, is partly because people mistake COVID-19 symptoms for a regular flu. He suggested that anyone showing flu-like symptoms should get a COVID-19 test to stop the virus from spreading further."

Surely he means the common cold as for the majority this will be the case. When you get the flu you know you've got the flu. Is this expert saying incorrectly the flu instead of a cold? Common vernacular. "I've got the flu" when indeed this is not the case. It's just the common cold.

Apart from this another rediculous headline.

Expect Increase in COVID-19 Cases as School Term Approaches

Expect Increase in COVID-19 Cases as Schools Open.

[KhunLA]

Kids at school in close proximity getting sick ...

... who would have thought .. 

[BangkokReady]

Good stuff.  Keep the infections up, keep the immunity going, and keep covid evolving until it gets milder and milder.

 

Is it even any stronger than the flu right now as it is?

[dinsdale]

1 minute ago, BangkokReady said:

Good stuff.  Keep the infections up, keep the immunity going, and keep covid evolving until it gets milder and milder.

 

Is it even any stronger than the flu right now as it is?

Probably enough to kill some but so is the flu and even getting the common cold is enough to kill some people.

[dinsdale]

25 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Probably enough to kill some but so is the flu and even getting the common cold is enough to kill some people.

I'll quote myself as I await the statistics from the CDC and WHO which are sure to appear to demonstrate this isn't the case and being boosted by mRNA jabs and mask wearing is a good thing. Maybe also suggesting that schools being locked down again is the way to go.

[connda]

Expect Increase in COVID-19 Cases as School Term Approaches

OMG!!!  Say it's not so?

Oh wait!  And also increases in influenza, colds, RSV, STDs, mononucleosis, herpes, TB, and "bad humours," and a whole plethora of other communicable diseases that tend to occur when large groups of people are in close contact - like at the beginning of school year. 
But but but - Covid is special.  It's special!!!

🙄 Of course it is.  Four years after the fact and what is now a mild flu-like illness still scares the pants off of some people (look for mask wearers).  Outside of Asia (and Thailand) most people have gotten tired of the rhetoric and have jettisoned the fear and have gotten back to "old normal."

[dinsdale]

33 minutes ago, connda said:

Expect Increase in COVID-19 Cases as School Term Approaches

OMG!!!  Say it's not so?

Oh wait!  And also increases in influenza, colds, RSV, STDs, mononucleosis, herpes, TB, and "bad humours," and a whole plethora of other communicable diseases that tend to occur when large groups of people are in close contact - like at the beginning of school year. 
But but but - Covid is special.  It's special!!!

🙄 Of course it is.  Four years after the fact and what is now a mild flu-like illness still scares the pants off of some people (look for mask wearers).  Outside of Asia (and Thailand) most people have gotten tired of the rhetoric and have jettisoned the fear and have gotten back to "old normal."

Flu (maybe) colds (yes), RSV (yes along with other respiratory infections), STD's (maybe), mono (yes), herpes more than likely herpes simplex virus 1 HSV1 otherwise known as cold sores (yes), TB (doubt it), not sure what "bad humours" is so (don't know), conjunctivitis often refered to as pink eye (yes), Covid-19 of the Omicron strain (yes) along with other communicable viruses as you say. Although not a viral infection you could also add students killed in road accidents most likely in motorcycle crashes. It's what happens as you correctly point out. Only one seems to be newsworthy though so as to keep pushing the narrative. All up I agree with you.

[stoner]

you can also expect that none of them will die from it. next. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

11 minutes ago, stoner said:

you can also expect that none of them will die from it. next. 

 

Wrong!

 

Thai MoPH just reported the COVID death of a young child aged 0-4 at the end of last month, in their weekly COVID report for April 21-27:

 

 

 

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

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) in Bangkok recently reported an increase in COVID-19 cases following the Songkran holiday.

 

COVID hospitalizations in Thailand have been rising for the past two months since mid-March, well before Song Kran came along, though the pace of increases after Song Kran has increased:

 

"The weekly COVID new hospitalization counts reported by the MoPH during the past eight weeks have been as follows, with the spring surge beginning well before this year's mid-April Song Kran holidays, but then climbing rapidly after they arrived:

 

March 16 -- 501

March 23 -- 630

March 30 -- 728

April 6 -- 774

April 13 -- 849

April 20 -- 1,004

April 27 -- 1,672

May 4 -- 1,792"

 

 

The MoPH's weekly COVID reports for Thailand are available at the following MoPH website:

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

 

 

 

[stoner]

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Wrong!

 

Thai MoPH just reported the COVID death of a young child aged 0-4 at the end of last month, in their weekly COVID report for April 21-27:

 

 

 

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

 

 

ok john 1 died. what is your point ? how many children died in scooter accidents last month 
? 

my point is that the chances of a child dying from covid is far far less than so many other things in thailand. 

 

very few children died from covid total. children were the least vulnerable group and still are. 

[stoner]

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

but then climbing rapidly after they arrived:

 

how about deaths ? were they rapidly climbing ? 

 

are you going to start posting articles on people who go to the hospital with many other ailments who don't die ? 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

27 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

how about deaths ? were they rapidly climbing ? 

 

 

Look at the COVID deaths graphics in the latest weekly MoPH COVID reports. 12 official COVID deaths last week, 9 the week before that. 3 the week before that.

 

It always helps to actually be looking at and keeping up with the MoPH data, before one starts talking about it.

 

April 28 - May 4:

 

 

April 21-27:

 

 

April 14-20:

 

 

 

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

 

It's also worth noting that past published research studies have shown that Thailand's official COVID deaths statistics during the pandemic have been substantial undercounts to what were the actual likely COVID deaths -- as was found to be the case in many different countries.

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1253090-covid-19-thailand-reports-24792-new-coronavirus-cases-63-deaths-22065-recoveries/?do=findComment&comment=17240156

 

 

[dinsdale]

50 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Wrong!

 

Thai MoPH just reported the COVID death of a young child aged 0-4 at the end of last month, in their weekly COVID report for April 21-27:

 

 

 

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

 

Very sad indeed but why did this happen? You put these things up but never back it up with the actual facts just statistics. Was this baby born immunocomprimised for example? I don't know but do you? To show this is disingenous and you use this babies death as some sort of basis to support your narritve.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

That's all the public detail the MoPH provides... And they had ceased proving any age data on local COVID deaths until just recently, when they finally resumed specifying the general age ranges again.

 

If you're not satisfied and want more details, you need to take it up with the Thai MoPH.

 

[dinsdale]

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

That's all the public detail the MoPH provides... And they had ceased proving any age data on local COVID deaths until just recently, when they finally resumed specifying the general age ranges again.

 

If you're not satisfied and want more details, you need to take it up with the Thai MoPH.

 

Indeed. No comorbidities given. Death from or death with not given. Just all lumped into one category. Covid deaths. I for one see a problem with this.

[stoner]

49 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Look at the COVID deaths graphics in the latest weekly MoPH COVID reports. 12 official COVID deaths last week, 9 the week before that. 3 the week before that.

 

so the answer is no. got it thanks. 

[dinsdale]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Look at the COVID deaths graphics in the latest weekly MoPH COVID reports. 12 official COVID deaths last week, 9 the week before that. 3 the week before that.

 

It always helps to actually be looking at and keeping up with the MoPH data, before one starts talking about it.

 

April 28 - May 4:

 

 

April 21-27:

 

 

April 14-20:

 

 

 

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

 

It's also worth noting that past published research studies have shown that Thailand's official COVID deaths statistics during the pandemic have been substantial undercounts to what were the actual likely COVID deaths -- as was found to be the case in many different countries.

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1253090-covid-19-thailand-reports-24792-new-coronavirus-cases-63-deaths-22065-recoveries/?do=findComment&comment=17240156

 

 

Basically a very, very, very tiny % of cause of death compared to most other causes of death. I won't say all because I don't know how many people in Thailand die from falling off ladders or similar such innocuous accidents. You just can't or won't let go. Covid is now a serious virus for a tiny % of people and within that tiny % of people a tiny % die. It's over. It's over any the majority of people accept this.

 

[OJAS]

4 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Kids at school in close proximity getting sick ...

... who would have thought .. 

Especially since precious few of them are, I suspect, over 60 or pregnant!

[Jim Jum]

4 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Basically a very, very, very tiny % of cause of death compared to most other causes of death. I won't say all because I don't know how many people in Thailand die from falling off ladders or similar such innocuous accidents. You just can't or won't let go. Covid is now a serious virus for a tiny % of people and within that tiny % of people a tiny % die. It's over. It's over any the majority of people accept this.

 

At least 10% percent of infections leads to long covid. The economic burden of covid will be huge. Thanks to the continuous covid infections, the children of this generation will become the sickest and stupidest generation of all.

[DonniePeverley]

43 minutes ago, Jim Jum said:

At least 10% percent of infections leads to long covid. The economic burden of covid will be huge. Thanks to the continuous covid infections, the children of this generation will become the sickest and stupidest generation of all.

 

I am slightly confused as to your point. How do you plan on stopping 'continuous' infections?

[Robert Paulson]

If we boost all the kids and mask them they should be fine

[Skeptic7]

Covidiocy...umm what❓

Snoozer🥱 💤 

[Zack61]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Since the start of the year, there have been 13,057 infections and 93 deaths.

Known infections 

Known deaths 

[loong]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Between April 28 and May 4, the data showed that 1,792 people were admitted to hospitals with COVID-19, meaning there were about 256 cases each day.

No, there were about 256 cases each day where hospitalisation was required.

There must have been a lot more daily cases when including those that didn't require hospitalisation.

[spidermike007]

93 deaths since the start of the year. Directly, or indirectly from covid? And how many from the flu? And traffic accidents? How about from the extremely low air quality? 

 

This is a non story. Covid is endemic, and has been for a long time. No longer news. Sorry to disappoint, but this is not the Zombie Apocalypse. 

[Mugi]

11 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

Good stuff.  Keep the infections up, keep the immunity going, and keep covid evolving until it gets milder and milder.

 

Is it even any stronger than the flu right now as it is?

Yes, 96 death.

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) in Bangkok recently reported an increase in COVID-19 cases following the Songkran holiday. They believe the number of infections could continue to rise as schools start their new term. Between April 28 and May 4, the data showed that 1,792 people were admitted to hospitals with COVID-19, meaning there were about 256 cases each day. During this period, 12 people died from the virus. Since the start of the year, there have been 13,057 infections and 93 deaths.

Next door neighours came back from Nakhon Si Thammarat afetr visiting family for Songkran, both kids have Covid.

[hotchilli]

11 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Maybe also suggesting that schools being locked down again is the way to go.

So kids stay home and give it to the extended family who then take it to work... 

No more shut downs please.