Public encouraged to stay vigilant as COVID infections rises

[snoop1130]

 

The number of COVID-19 patients being admitted to hospitals in Thailand has risen to 2,762 between June 2 and 8, or an average of 395 patients daily. This figure is an increase from the previous week, which saw 1,863 cases, as reported by the COVID-19 Information Centre.

 

The nation also reported five deaths during that week, taking the total death toll for the year to 137.

 

Dr. Thira Woratanarat from Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Medicine cautioned the public via a Facebook post. Due to a 48.3% increase in COVID-19 related hospital admissions from the past week, he advised people to remain vigilant and take care of their health.

 

In other news, the Centre for Medical Genomics at Mahidol University made an announcement on its website about a new vaccine, KP.2. This vaccine has the potential to strengthen the immune system against new COVID variants and is anticipated to be approved for usage in the 2024-25 season.

 

The centre stated that the new vaccine marks a significant step towards battling COVID mutations and is expected to curb the global infection rates.

 

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-- 2024-06-10

 

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[dinsdale]

Interesting that BP ran an article last week citing a virologist from Chulalongkorn University who said that boosters are no longer necessary for healthy people because the symptoms are generally mild. I've been saying for a very long time now. It's Omicron and Omicron is doing what Omicron does. It evolves. It evolves so it can infect people that have gained some natural immunity. This is called immune escape. People will gain natural immunity with this variant and then this variant will evolve immune escape. So it goes on. It cannot be stopped and it could never be stopped. Zero Covid 19 was a complete smokescreen and never attainable.

[connda]

Sing to tune of Instant Karma:

Covid virus gonna get you,
it's hiding underneath your bed.
Better get your 49th booster,
otherwise you'll end up dead!

[stoner]

35 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Interesting that BP ran an article last week citing a virologist from Chulalongkorn University who said that boosters are no longer necessary for healthy people because the symptoms are generally mild. I've been saying for a very long time now. It's Omicron and Omicron is doing what Omicron does. It evolves. It evolves so it can infect people that have gained some natural immunity. This is called immune escape. People will gain natural immunity with this variant and then this variant will evolve immune escape. So it goes on. It cannot be stopped and it could never be stopped. Zero Covid 19 was a complete smokescreen and never attainable.

 

also of note.

 

if the total weekly deaths were 12 a few weeks ago and now it is 5 that is a huge drop. one could even say the death rate plummeted.

 

so with that in mind it matters not about hospital admission numbers. the death rate still remains very very very low.... and that's the most important part.  

 

 

 

[dinsdale]

5 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

also of note.

 

if the total weekly deaths were 12 a few weeks ago and now it is 5 that is a huge drop. one could even say the death rate plummeted.

 

so with that in mind it matters not about hospital admission numbers. the death rate still remains very very very low.... and that's the most important part.  

 

 

 

Also worth bearing in mind comorbidities and incidental cases. This has been an endemic non-severe virus for a very long time now but sadly the narrative still gets pushed and believed.  

[stoner]

5 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Also worth bearing in mind comorbidities and incidental cases. This has been an endemic non-severe virus for a very long time now but sadly the narrative still gets pushed and believed.  

 

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

[hotchilli]

Schools re-opened, bound to see numbers rise for a while.

[ronster]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

In other news, the Centre for Medical Genomics at Mahidol University made an announcement on its website about a new vaccine, KP.2. This vaccine has the potential to strengthen the immune system against new COVID variants and is anticipated to be approved for usage in the 2024-25 season.

Can keep it thanks !

Had COVID twice in the last year and still here , so don't need any more jabs to boost some companies pockets .

[rwill]

I know of at least 3 people who have recently got covid.  So it is spreading a lot right now.  A friends Thai wife got it after going to a private hospital for a checkup. (they think that is where she may have been exposed but it could have been anywhere)  He now has it too. 

A close friend of ours that owns a restaurant has a nephew that lives with her.  Yesterday she told us he has covid.  He works in the local Tessaban office and most likely got exposed there.  I told her she has probably been exposed to it too then.  But she is in denial.  Which I guess may mean the wife and I have now been exposed to it also.  I guess we will find out in a few days.

 

Over a year ago the wife and I got covid from our niece while taking a vacation in Chiang Mai.  It wasn't that bad.  Like having a bad cold for a few days.

[thainet]

14 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Interesting that BP ran an article last week citing a virologist from Chulalongkorn University who said that boosters are no longer necessary for healthy people because the symptoms are generally mild. I've been saying for a very long time now. It's Omicron and Omicron is doing what Omicron does. It evolves. It evolves so it can infect people that have gained some natural immunity. This is called immune escape. People will gain natural immunity with this variant and then this variant will evolve immune escape. So it goes on. It cannot be stopped and it could never be stopped. Zero Covid 19 was a complete smokescreen and never attainable.

Yep same as 'Zero Flu' or 'Zero Head colds' or 'Zero Fever'...never attainable.

[khunpeer]

14 hours ago, connda said:

Sing to tune of Instant Karma:

Covid virus gonna get you,
it's hiding underneath your bed.
Better get your 49th booster,
otherwise you'll end up dead!

you got some inspiration? 😁🎈

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

A bit more detail on the above OP's reporting:

 

 

"The Thai Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported a sharp increase in new COVID hospitalizations to 2,762 last week, the highest weekly total in the past year and a tally that has now grown five-fold in the past three months. [emphasis added]

...

The weekly COVID new hospitalization totals since the current surge began in mid-March have been:

 

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

May 11 -- 1,880

May 18 - 1,882

May 25 -- 1,801

June 1 -- 1,863

June 8 -- 2,762"

 

 

[Red Phoenix]

From the responses above it is clear that those posters have woken up to the scam and will not be rolling up their sleeves again for their next 'protection' COVID-booster.  Obviously that worldwide phenomenon has already triggered a double-pronged response from the vaccinators: 

- combining the Flu and COVID jabs in one shot;

- stoking up the fear for the next pandemic, and since COVID has lost much of its fear-factor it's now Bird Flu. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Schools re-opened, bound to see numbers rise for a while.

 

The COVID weekly new hospitalization numbers in Thailand have been rising long before the schools recently reopened, and even before Song Kran, dating back to mid-March... See the above detail by week.

 

[stoner]

4 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

The COVID hospitalization numbers in Thailand have been rising long before the schools recently reopened, and even before Song Kran, dating back to mid-March... See the above detail by week.

 

 

thank goodness deaths have been dropping again. seems to be having less fatal effects. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

14 hours ago, stoner said:

so with that in mind it matters not about hospital admission numbers. the death rate still remains very very very low.... and that's the most important part.  

 

It's very good that Thailand is still reporting very low COVID death numbers, though also worth mentioning that this latest weekly report included two COVID deaths in the 50-59 age range, and other recent weekly death reports have listed people from even younger age groups.

 

The latest weekly report also listed 663 people hospitalized in serious condition with COVID, and 286 requiring ventilation in order to breathe -- both close to year-high numbers for 2024.

 

In my book, anyone dismissing those kinds of impacts has long missed the boat.  No one should want to be hospitalized in serious condition or have to be relying on a ventilator to breathe -- especially when many of those cases could have been avoided/prevented.

 

 

Also regarding COVID deaths in Thailand, there's been no clear trend over time. The weekly COVID death numbers bounce around a lot.

 

A few weeks ago, the weekly official COVID numbers were 12, 11 and 16... A few weeks before that, they were 3, 4 and 3.

 

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

 

 

[stoner]

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

In my book, anyone dismissing those kinds of impacts has long missed the boat.

 

the huge threat of covid set sail a long time ago john. now we simply have to live with it like we do so many other illnesses and virus and things that can kill us.

 

its life. 

[BKKBike09]

A few days ago I was amazed to watch a foreign bloke, masked up (N95, of course), eating a meal at a mid-Sukhumvit pub. Sitting outside. Did not remove mask, simply lifted the bottom enough to insert grub into gob and then back down again. Repeated until meal finished. Performance art? Mental illness? It appears some people are prisoners of an irrational fear.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

6 minutes ago, BKKBike09 said:

A few days ago I was amazed to watch a foreign bloke, masked up (N95, of course), eating a meal at a mid-Sukhumvit pub. Sitting outside. Did not remove mask, simply lifted the bottom enough to insert grub into gob and then back down again. Repeated until meal finished. Performance art? Mental illness? It appears some people are prisoners of an irrational fear.

 

Or just trying to stay out of the hospital... or the morgue.

 

Study says social distancing and COVID vaccines saved 800,000 U.S. lives

https://aseannow.com/topic/1329439-study-says-social-distancing-and-covid-vaccines-saved-800000-us-lives/

 

 

[sungod]

4 minutes ago, BKKBike09 said:

A few days ago I was amazed to watch a foreign bloke, masked up (N95, of course), eating a meal at a mid-Sukhumvit pub. Sitting outside. Did not remove mask, simply lifted the bottom enough to insert grub into gob and then back down again. Repeated until meal finished. Performance art? Mental illness? It appears some people are prisoners of an irrational fear.

I think he must post on here.......

[sungod]

I was out on Sunday for a bit of lunch when I saw a farang couple pull up in the car park of the restaurant, fully masked up. They walked into the restaurant and took their masks off surrounded by strangers.......

 

So yes, mental illness must be a factor with COVID.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

6 minutes ago, sungod said:

 

So yes, mental illness must be a factor with COVID.

 

yes, but not the kind you think...

 

"Recent studies have unveiled a troubling connection between Covid-19 and cognitive decline, suggesting that even mild infections can lead to a measurable reduction in intelligence [emphasis added]. This revelation, supported by extensive research from institutions around the world, has sparked concern among scientists and the general public alike. These study findings and the implications for individuals and society are worrisome and unsettling. "

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1328665-covid-19-will-make-you-stupid/

 

AND

Long COVID Brain Fog: What It Is and How to Manage It

"Brain fog” is one of the most debilitating problems experienced by people with Long COVID, a condition in which COVID-19-like symptoms continue or develop after the acute infection has passed. People who experience brain fog say they have an inability to think clearly, are forgetful, and can’t focus their attention or find the right words in a conversation.

 

An estimated 7% of adults—or about 17 million people—in the United States reported having Long COVID in March 2024, based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Estimates vary as to exactly how many of those people struggle with cognitive function, but in one study of people with Long COVID, close to half reported having poor memory or brain fog."

 

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/how-to-manage-long-covid-brain-fog

 

[sungod]

3 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

yes, but not the kind you think...

 

"Recent studies have unveiled a troubling connection between Covid-19 and cognitive decline, suggesting that even mild infections can lead to a measurable reduction in intelligence [emphasis added]. This revelation, supported by extensive research from institutions around the world, has sparked concern among scientists and the general public alike. These study findings and the implications for individuals and society are worrisome and unsettling. "

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1328665-covid-19-will-make-you-stupid/

 

AND

Long COVID Brain Fog: What It Is and How to Manage It

"Brain fog” is one of the most debilitating problems experienced by people with Long COVID, a condition in which COVID-19-like symptoms continue or develop after the acute infection has passed. People who experience brain fog say they have an inability to think clearly, are forgetful, and can’t focus their attention or find the right words in a conversation.

 

An estimated 7% of adults—or about 17 million people—in the United States reported having Long COVID in March 2024, based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Estimates vary as to exactly how many of those people struggle with cognitive function, but in one study of people with Long COVID, close to half reported having poor memory or brain fog."

 

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/how-to-manage-long-covid-brain-fog

 

 

Long COVID, the new bad back syndrome......

[zakalwe]

22 minutes ago, BKKBike09 said:

A few days ago I was amazed to watch a foreign bloke, masked up (N95, of course), eating a meal at a mid-Sukhumvit pub. Sitting outside. Did not remove mask, simply lifted the bottom enough to insert grub into gob and then back down again. Repeated until meal finished. Performance art? Mental illness? It appears some people are prisoners of an irrational fear.

Well, he knows what his risk factors are. He could have an comprised immune system. Although covid transmission outside is rare.

 

Something new I found out about covid. Covid could accelerate cancer.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/06/covid-cancer-increase-link/

[Highlandman]

53 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

A bit more detail on the above OP's reporting:

 

 

"The Thai Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported a sharp increase in new COVID hospitalizations to 2,762 last week, the highest weekly total in the past year and a tally that has now grown five-fold in the past three months. [emphasis added]

...

The weekly COVID new hospitalization totals since the current surge began in mid-March have been:

 

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

May 11 -- 1,880

May 18 - 1,882

May 25 -- 1,801

June 1 -- 1,863

June 8 -- 2,762"

 

 

Oh no, might be time to double mask at all times, permanently from now on!!

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

2 minutes ago, Highlandman said:

Oh no, might be time to double mask at all times, permanently from now on!!

 

Just a single N95, as the guy supposedly was wearing, was the best thing to do when close around others and wanting to reduce one's risks.

 

N95 respirator gets top billing in stopping SARS-CoV-2 viral leakage into the air

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1329236-n95-respirator-gets-top-billing-in-stopping-sars-cov-2-viral-leakage-into-the-air/

 

 

[spidermike007]

15 hours ago, stoner said:

 

also of note.

 

if the total weekly deaths were 12 a few weeks ago and now it is 5 that is a huge drop. one could even say the death rate plummeted.

 

so with that in mind it matters not about hospital admission numbers. the death rate still remains very very very low.... and that's the most important part.  

 

 

 

Very true. The mortality rate is super low. One would appear to have to be very susceptible, to croak from this weak variant. 

 

I let it go a couple of years ago. So has most of the world. It actually looks strange when you see someone with a mask these days. How refreshing is that? 

 

This has turned out to not be the Zombie Apocalypse. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

13 minutes ago, zakalwe said:

Well, he knows what his risk factors are. He could have an comprised immune system. Although covid transmission outside is rare.

 

Something new I found out about covid. Covid could accelerate cancer.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/06/covid-cancer-increase-link/

 

Unproven connection yet... But a concern that the scientists are studying...  There is established medical knowledge that other viral infections can and do trigger cancer development...

 

From the above WAPO report as posted here on AN:

 

"Since the 1960s, scientists have identified various infectious agents, such as HPV, Epstein-Barr, and hepatitis B, as contributing to 15 to 20 percent of all cancers worldwide. However, establishing a connection between COVID-19 and cancer will likely take years of research."

 

 

 

[Pouatchee]

16 hours ago, dinsdale said:

I've been saying for a very long time now. It's Omicron and Omicron is doing what Omicron does.

 

totally agree with you.  

on a different, but similar note... a few years ago i argued with someone that burying the bird flu infected poultry was not the solution an that one day the virus would mutate and come back... i told this guy the only solution was fire. he ridiculed me. now, there are new strains coming out with a vengeance...

 

 

 

Quote

 

What is the latest strain of the bird flu?

 

It sounds like something out of a science fiction film but clade 2.3.4.4b, as the latest major strain of H5N1 bird flu circulating is known, is very real.

 

 

 

[Highlandman]

43 minutes ago, BKKBike09 said:

A few days ago I was amazed to watch a foreign bloke, masked up (N95, of course), eating a meal at a mid-Sukhumvit pub. Sitting outside. Did not remove mask, simply lifted the bottom enough to insert grub into gob and then back down again. Repeated until meal finished. Performance art? Mental illness? It appears some people are prisoners of an irrational fear.

 

I still see plenty of Thais do that but haven't observed a foreigner/expat do that.