Officials say mass testing and isolating in next 2 weeks could flatten Covid-19 curve

[Thaiger]

Health officials are hopeful that mass testing and isolating over the next 2 weeks could bring down Covid-19 infections in Bangkok. Dr Yongyot Thammawut from the Public Health Ministry says 41 teams of 400 doctors and other healthcare workers have been carrying out mass testing in the capital and other central provinces since the start of the month. Yongyot says the Comprehensive Covid-19 Response teams who carried out the testing did so across 100 communities, including condominiums and crowded locations, in areas with high infection rates. “What we gathered from launching the tests shows the transmission in Bangkok remains a […]

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[MrStretch]

Wishful thinking...

Only vaccinating and isolating will flatten their damned curve.  The more they test, they more they are going to find the virus is even more out of control than they thought.

 

[JackIsAGoodBoy]

Thais with little savings really are not going to obey any isolation orders. They have to earn a living every single day.

[Dairyboy]

Hmmmm how about maybe vaccinating the population??? With a year head start on the rest of the world this could have been avoided. 

Shutting the door and hiding under the duvet was not really the best plan was it? 

[Graham]

And everyone please note, they are talking about only Bangkok, what they plan for the rest of the country is anyone's guess, they still can't give out decent quantities of vaccines outside Bangkok. 

[King Cotton]

12 minutes ago, Dairyboy said:

Shutting the door and hiding under the duvet was not really the best plan was it? 

Fair comment and thanks for your suitably pointed debut post.

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[Bobo]

Testing and isolation doesn’t help if infected don’t respect and  ignore isolation. I‘m wondering what’s the problem for the government to order 120mio vaccines to have their people vaccinated. Vaccine is in the market since December 2020!

[ThairdOfBS]

Very difficult job in any country where so many of the population need to be working daily due to poverty. 

Without Government financial support to these folk Delta Covid will continue to rage like a wildfire, it's time that the Government and also Thailand's extremely wealthy families took a hip pocket hit, but dont hold your breath waiting.

Vaccination control will likely take another 6 months due to a current lack of suitable vaccines

[gummy]

53 minutes ago, Graham said:

And everyone please note, they are talking about only Bangkok, what they plan for the rest of the country is anyone's guess, they still can't give out decent quantities of vaccines outside Bangkok. 

They possibly don't plan on anything for the rest of the country

[HolyCowCm]

Dr Yongyot Thammawut from the Public Health Ministry says: Blah blah blah blah blah blah as he listened to himself talk with ear plugs in. Wonder who told him to say that? Asputin?

 

 

[vlad]

The mighty one told us last week the whole country will see good results in 6 weeks he said. Now only BKK will possibly be slowing down in 2 weeks. Good luck with that one and more rumour mongering from him spreading false information.

[Poolie]

44 minutes ago, vlad said:

The mighty one told us last week the whole country will see good results in 6 weeks he said. Now only BKK will possibly be slowing down in 2 weeks. Good luck with that one and more rumour mongering from him spreading false information.

He said, she said....

Doesn't change a thing, mate.

[longwood50]

3 hours ago, Thaiger said:

Health officials are hopeful that mass testing and isolating over the next 2 weeks could bring down Covid-19 infections in Bangkok.

What these people seem to be ignoring is the end game.  Ok, lets for the sake of discussion say that everyone agrees to hole up in their homes for the next two weeks and there are no new cases of covid.  What then?   If you consider that Covid started because 1 person contracted the disease and it spread throughout the world.  So at best, what is being accomplished is kicking the can down the road so the number of covid cases does not happen this week or next, but rather next month or the month after.  

The only solution is to procure vaccines to assist people in not contracting the disease and if they do making its effects less severe.  Then the world is going to have to come to the reality that it is going to have to learn to function with the virus present because it will never be eliminated.  The only hope would be for a vaccine so effective like that to prevent smallpox that Covid is rendered to be not a significant concern. 

[MikeW]

If over 15000 people were found infected why is Bangkok only reporting just under 5000 

[Poolie]

4 minutes ago, MikeW said:

If over 15000 people were found infected why is Bangkok only reporting just under 5000 

Magic.

[poohy]

Testing is only going to throw up more cases

Vaccination Is the way forwards but with both inadequate amounts of useful vaccines and an over reliance on sinovac thats a weak agent its going to be a long hard ride

The government failed to plan when it was ahead its behind now the countries hurting and the tourism business that was supposedly Not that important to the economy is going to be stalled for another 12 months in reality

 

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

2 hours ago, gummy said:

They possibly don't plan on anything for the rest of the country

They will allow all those from Bangkok to visit the rest of the country, just like Songkran. What will be will be, that’s the plan.

[AlexPTY]

There maybe some explanation of why there are so many infections of fully vaccinated people in USA and Europe

"A preprint study conducted by nfrence and the Mayo Clinic found that Pfizer's effectiveness dropped substantially when up against the Delta variant. The Aug. 8 study concluded that the vaccine was only 42 percent effective against the virus in July when Delta was the dominant variant. This is a significant drop in protection for a vaccine whose efficacy was 95 percent in clinical trials."

I guess, I am lucky to get both shots of AZ. Maybe Thailand should think twice before using Phizer for frontliners, it may backfire.

[Ttalk]

When you spin up an injection quickly and only make it to make spike proteins for the original variant, it makes this a very specific injection that doesn't let the body look for various other pathogens.  If you have spikes for Alpha, and now the spikes are for Delta, they go right by the defenses from the injection in many people.  They should have created something to stop the whole virus, but with this program, you have customers for life by repeated injections of more spike proteins into the body and record proftis quarter after quarter.  Oh yea!

[Khunmark]

1 hour ago, AlexPTY said:

There maybe some explanation of why there are so many infections of fully vaccinated people in USA and Europe

"A preprint study conducted by nfrence and the Mayo Clinic found that Pfizer's effectiveness dropped substantially when up against the Delta variant. The Aug. 8 study concluded that the vaccine was only 42 percent effective against the virus in July when Delta was the dominant variant. This is a significant drop in protection for a vaccine whose efficacy was 95 percent in clinical trials."

I guess, I am lucky to get both shots of AZ. Maybe Thailand should think twice before using Phizer for frontliners, it may backfire.

Protection against hospitalisation is still high and protection against death higher again. I think most discerning individuals would take that as a win.

[voyager]

6 hours ago, MrStretch said:

Wishful thinking...

Only vaccinating and isolating will flatten their damned curve.  The more they test, they more they are going to find the virus is even more out of control than they thought.

 

[voyager]

...and if they start proactively testing in provinces /areas where there haven't been as many cases as in the "dark red" areas, they'll find even more. I agree entirely... DOUBLE the past 7 days' average vaccination rate, and we could see reduced hospitalization and death, possibly within 3 months (at double the current rate, we have a chance of 70% of adults vaccinated by beginning November this year) ...-but my bet isn't hedged based on the effectiveness of  Sinovac!