News Forum - Vaccinations accelerated for inmates following Covid-19 outbreaks at prisons

[Thaiger]

More than 74,000 inmates at Thailand’s overcrowded prisons and detention centres have tested positive for Covid-19 over the past several months, which is about a fourth of the total number of prisoners in the country. Correctional facilities stopped allowing visits earlier this year and vaccinations have been accelerated. According to Nation Thailand, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said prisons will start allowing visits from inmates’ family and friends once all inmates have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. Over the last several months, a total of 74,928 inmates have tested positive for Covid-19 and 169 of those infected have died, according […]

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[Malc-Thai]

Wow there is around 300k prisoners in Thailand. There has been outbreaks everywhere for many months and now they decide to accelerate the vaccines!  

[Fanta]

Approximately 25% of inmates infected. 25%…. this far into the pandemic. And 169 dead? That figure needs clarification. 169 died in prison or 169 died in prison and hospitals. Big difference.. When an inmate dies in prison, police and outside medical staff must attend the prison, view the body in situ, questions are asked and noted as a death in custody. When a prisoner is sent to the hospital and expires the next day, the hospital records it as “just” another death. 

[Stonker]

6 hours ago, Fanta said:

When a prisoner is sent to the hospital and expires the next day, the hospital records it as “just” another death.

Wouldn't the cause of death still be on the death certificate from the hospital?

The fatality rate's 0.2%, which is very low (Thailand's is 1%, worldwide it's 2%) but not impossible.

[Stonker]

7 hours ago, Malc-Thai said:

There has been outbreaks everywhere for many months and now they decide to accelerate the vaccines!  

Agreed - half fully vaccinated at this stage seems extraordinarily low under the circumstances.

[Fanta]

On 11/3/2021 at 1:03 AM, Stonker said:

Wouldn't the cause of death still be on the death certificate from the hospital?

The fatality rate's 0.2%, which is very low (Thailand's is 1%, worldwide it's 2%) but not impossible.

Sorry, I wasn’t clear. Sure, the death will be recorded as a Covid death. But NOT as a death in custody but as a death in hospital. Subtle but meaningful difference. How the DOC’s death figure is calculated depends on how the question was asked and the subsequent DOC statement formulated.

1) How many people died IN PRISON from Covid ?   The prisons report back 169 died from Covid on the grounds of the prison  OR

2) How many prisoners have died of Covid?  
Umm.. well.. hmmm… just use the above figure. 
 
25% infected… 0.2% mortality rate. 0.2%!
169 deaths across 142 prisons. An average of 1 death per prison. Remarkable! what are the prisons with no incubators and minimal, if any, Covid specific medication doing so right as to have such an admirably low mortality rate?  Early detection for sure as Covid paranoia would be running high in the prisons. Maybe the Covid in prison is poor quality the same as the food and accommodation ? /s  Lots of questions but I don’t expect any answers.