News Forum - Bangkok preparing to reopen community isolation centres

[Thaiger]

With Covid-19 infections on the rise again, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration may reopen community isolation centres in crowded areas of the capital city. The plan would open facilities in 50 districts to help protect vulnerable people like pregnant women, the elderly, and those with underlying diseases from those infected with Covid-19. Bangkok has seen a rise to over 2,000 infections per day, and Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt worries that slum areas in the city are so crowded that the virus will spread even more quickly if those infected aren’t isolated like in earlier phases of the pandemic. Community isolation facilities […]

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[TheDirtyDurian]

Or alternatively those with mild symptoms, or asymptomatic, could just STAY AT HOME.

until they feel better, or show as negative 

[JJJ]

6 hours ago, TheDirtyDurian said:

Or alternatively those with mild symptoms, or asymptomatic, could just STAY AT HOME.

until they feel better, or show as negative 

The theory for the community isolation centers has some logic to it  

Low risk patients with covid should certainly not go to a hospital—though in Thailand many do—and should stay at home until recovered. BUT many live in multigenerational homes where it’s impossible to isolate the sick person. So a young person goes off to community isolation. 

It’s a reasonable theory—but by the time the antigen test starts being positive you have had more than enough time to infect the family. So I’m not sure the benefits actually get realized.