News Forum - Age of latest Covid-19 fatalities ranges from 7 months to 101 years old

[Thaiger]

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration has reported a wide age range in the latest Covid-related fatalities, with the youngest being a 7 month old baby. Among the 233 deaths reported yesterday, there were also 2 pregnant women, an 88 year old doctor, and a patient who was 101 years old. According to a Bangkok Post report, 155 deaths were in people over the age of 60, while 43 deaths were in people with health problems. The remainder had no known underlying health conditions. Of the deaths reported yesterday, the 2 pregnant women and 88 year old doctor were in […]

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[Bob20]

Thank you.

Finally some more detail if not yet perfect.

So the capacity is 100.000 tests a day, but only 50.000 are used.

Roughly 20.000 positives. That's 40%

If they had done the full 100.000, at 40% it could have been 40.000 positives.

Daily approx. 20.000 released as recovered.

So net 40.000-20.000 = 20.000 additional cases each day.

And still claiming that the figures are levelling off and looking at opening the country well before enough people have been vaccinated.

STAGGERING!

I'm pleased at least they pushed back the opening date a little. Let's hope they push it back a lot more.

[ExpatPattaya]

Testing is a waste of resources, time, and medical personnel.  If you can get people to go to the "testing" they should all be getting vaccines, not tests.  

As the prominent Thai doctor said last week everyone will eventually get Covid.  Testing doesnt stop the spread as we have seen in the last 6 weeks. 

Vaccines will stop the severity and hospitalizations and deaths

[Bob20]

39 minutes ago, ExpatPattaya said:

Testing is a waste of resources, time, and medical personnel.  If you can get people to go to the "testing" they should all be getting vaccines, not tests.  

As the prominent Thai doctor said last week everyone will eventually get Covid.  Testing doesnt stop the spread as we have seen in the last 6 weeks. 

Vaccines will stop the severity and hospitalizations and deaths

Someone who tests correctly positive doesn't need the vaccine. They may possibly get ill or die but for a vaccine it's already too late.

If they survive they will have natural antibodies and they don't need to be vaccinated for around 6 months when the natural defence starts diminishing.

So testing makes absolute sense if done properly. Then we know the situation that we deal with, get virus carriers out of the community and can use vaccines on the people that need it, rather than waste them on people on whom it has no effect.