News Forum - Covid-19 infections up 12.8% last week

[Thaiger]

Despite everyone in Thailand – and the rest of the world – being bored of it, Covid-19 is still here. Last week, new Covid infections in Thailand rose 12.8%. The greatest leaps were seen in tourist areas and Bangkok. In the last week, an average of six people per day died of the coronavirus, while 3,166 people were admitted to hospitals for treatment of the virus. The vast majority of patients on ventilators over the past week were people that were either unvaccinated or had not had a booster shot. The Department of Disease Control expected this surge in infections […]

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[Soidog]

Six people per day died! Why not worry as much about the Sixty that die unnecessarily on Thai roads each day

[Donald]

Flogging a dead horse, are we ? By now most of the world has realized that the damage done by the measures to prevent the spread of Covid 19, together with the controversial "vaccine" have caused more death and destruction then the actual virus. And in the above article it is highlighted that most, if not all, of the serious cases needing hospitalization and even dying are among the "unvaccinated". I don't have any reliable sources of information on the Thai situation, but in countries with very high rates of vaccination like fe Australia, Canada or Israel the Covid deaths are reported nearly exclusively among the jabbed and the boostered.

[Soidog]

3 hours ago, Donald said:

I don't have any reliable sources of information on the Thai situation, but in countries with very high rates of vaccination like fe Australia, Canada or Israel the Covid deaths are reported nearly exclusively among the jabbed and the boostered.

Sorry Donald but that is a misleading statement if you are implying that somehow being vaccinated either doesn’t help or makes you more likely to die from Covid. The attached link explains it far better than I can in terms of what is known as the “base rate fallacy”

Take a read and all will become clear. If you can’t be bothered to read it then the following screenshot shows the real and normalised rate of deaths for vaccinated and unvaccinated people:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-compare-covid-deaths-for-vaccinated-and-unvaccinated-people/

[ChrisS]

"he vast majority of patients on ventilators over the past week were people that were either unvaccinated or had not had a booster shot"

No surprises there then. Unless of course you are an anti vaxer in which case it is a bit of an inconvenient statement.