The COVID-2019 Thread

[lom]

The registration process made it clear that it was available to International customers only, so there should be plenty to go around.

Link please, I don't believe it.
Your mate was the 92XXX who registered, there are not that many international customers in HatYai and surroundings.

In return I give this one for you.

COVID-19 vaccination Update (as of 4 May 2021) | Bangkok Hospital

[dirk diggler]

Those 'appt numbers' could be nationwide and not just HDY branch.

Here is the link for HDY, couldnt find one for anywhere else.

??????????????????????????? Covid-19 ??????????????? 18-59 ??

You'll need your passport number to hand.

[dirk diggler]

I'll add that Songkhla is a large province, which also covers Hat Yai, and that there are an abundance of foreign workers in the many factories including fish factories and rubber factories. Mostly Burmese workers.

Population 1.443 million as of 2018.

[Shutree]

Those 'appt numbers' could be nationwide and not just HDY branch.

It is interesting and I had never noticed before that the websites for Bangkok Hospital in Bangkok and Udon Thani and Hat Yai all appear to be standalone. None of them references any other branches. Even the look and feel of the pages is different. Only Hat Yai seems to be taking details for a jab.

I have to say I'd feel uneasy filling in all those personal data online. The Bangkok Hospital in Udon Thani already has all my details, why would they want more than my patient number?

[lom]

Here is the link for HDY, couldnt find one for anywhere else.

nothing in the link stating that it is for international customers only, on the contrary there is a Thai version of it also.

There may be vaccine available in the 4th quarter but the 4th quarter ends at new year so just forget about that 1st of October arrival, everything else has been delayed and there will be a fight for those allotted doses at private hospitals. There will be what I call the standard Thai queue system.

You have expectations like an English football fan and we know how that goes..

[dirk diggler]

It is what it is mate.

Maybe I was wrong about the international thing, although I contacted them first through LINE app and they send me this in reply:

Dear Customers,

Bangkok Hospital Hatyai is highly pleased to launch the reservation for alternative vaccine against Covid-19 as the following link

??????????????????????????? Covid-19 ??????????????? 18-59 ??


Please be reminded that the above link is for international customers only.


If you should have any inquiries, please feel free to contact us.


Best Regards,

International Customer Service
Bangkok Hospital Hatyai

Perhaps they thought the link I was given was only for international customers buy there is English and Thai option as soon as you click on it.

[harrybarracuda]

Fuck.

A new study has found that 1-in-5 Americans believe that it is "definitely true" or "probably true" that there is a microchip in the COVID-19 vaccines.
The study by YouGov in conjunction with The Economist has found that 30-44-year-olds are most likely to believe this widely debunked conspiracy, with 7% of people from this age group saying that it is "definitely true" and 20% of them saying it is "probably true."
Less than half of people surveyed (46%) said that it is "definitely false."

20% of Americans Believe Microchips Are in COVID-19 Vaccines: YouGov Study

[misskit]

^ I know. What a bunch of lunkheads we have here.



More than half of Australia's population under COVID-19 lockdowns

SYDNEY, July 20 (Reuters) - More than half of Australia's 25 million people were under lockdown on Tuesday after a third state adopted movement curbs to rein in the highly contagious Delta variant of coronavirus.


Australia's infections and deaths are well below other developed nations, but its use of lockdowns, prompted by a sluggish vaccination campaign, is putting pressure on the national government, with polls at their lowest in a year and just months before elections are due to be held.


South Australia, a state of 1.8 million, imposed a seven-day lockdown after detecting five infections linked to a returned traveller, just as the neighbouring state of Victoria extended by a week a five-day lockdown that had failed to stop new cases.


"We hate putting these restrictions in place but we believe we have one chance to get this right," South Australia premier Steven Marshall told reporters.


The largest city of Sydney, where the latest Delta outbreak started before spreading elsewhere, is in the fourth week of a five-week lockdown. Three regional centres were added to areas 250 km (155 miles) inland after a positive test there.


Sydney is the capital of New South Wales, the state that recorded 78 new cases on Tuesday, down from 98 a day earlier, for its biggest daily dip since Sydney went into lockdown.


At least 21 of the new cases were infectious in the community before being diagnosed. Authorities have said that figure should be near zero if Sydney's lockdown is to be lifted by a target date of July 30.


"We are seeing more hospitalisations, more admissions to ICU, more people on ventilators - we have to stop the spread of COVID," Kerry Chant, the state's chief health officer, said in Sydney, referring to intensive care units.


Ninety-five people with COVID-19 are in hospital in the state, 27 of them in intensive care and 11 on ventilators. The state's five deaths in the latest outbreak take the national toll to 915, with a tally of just over 32,000 infections.


INFECTIONS ONLY A FRACTION


Australia has relied on lockdowns, tough social distancing rules and swift contact tracing to hold infections to a fraction of levels elsewhere, such as Britain and the United States.


However health services are being tested by the virulent Delta variant and low vaccine coverage in Australia, where just over 14% of adults are fully vaccinated.


Although 13 million Australians were under lockdown, the country's health minister defended its pandemic response as having saved thousands of lives.


"The scope and scale between the rest of the world and Australia are immeasurably different and we shouldn't lose sight of what has been achieved on an extraordinary level," Greg Hunt told reporters.


A five-day snap lockdown in Victoria set to end on Tuesday night was extended by a week until July 27, as officials sought more time to quell the outbreak.


"There are chains of transmission not yet contained that we don't know about," state premier Daniel Andrews said in Melbourne.


"The speed with which this has moved through the Victorian community confirms that we did the right thing to lock down, and it also sadly confirms that we need more time."


Victoria's nine locally acquired cases, down from 13 a day earlier, followed a downward trend, but took its tally of infections to more than 80. All but one of the new cases were linked to the current outbreak, officials said.


The number of virus-exposed sites in Victoria has exceeded 300 since the first cases detected a week ago, linked to a team of infectious furniture movers from Sydney.


More than half of Australia's population under COVID-19 lockdowns

[dirk diggler]

Nano bots, as an English gentleman explained it to me.

[misskit]

Delta COVID-19 Variant Takes over as Dominant Strain in Thailand


BANGKOK (NNT) - The Department of Medical Sciences (DMS) reports that the Delta COVID-19 variant has overtaken the Alpha variant as the dominant strain in Thailand and that the spread of the highly contagious variant is driving the surge in infections.


DMS Director-General Dr Supakit Sirilak said about 63%, of more than 3,000 cases analyzed by the department, were found to be the Delta strain, while 34% are the Alpha variant. The rest are the Beta strain, which is dominant in the deep South.


Mae Hong Son, Kanchanaburi, Samut Songkhram, Chachoengsao, Trat, Surin, Chumphon, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Krabi, Phang Nga and Pattani reported their first Delta cases recently, raising the number of provinces where the variant has been found to 72.


Dr Supakit added that there were no new cases of co-infections, after the department reported early last week that seven construction workers in Bangkok were suspected to have been infected by both the Alpha and Delta variants simultaneously.


On Tuesday 20 July, Thailand recorded 11,305 new COVID-19 cases and 80 deaths, including 2,764 new infections found in Bangkok. Cumulative infections, since the start of the current wave on 1 April 2021, rose to 397,612, while 6,557 people have fully recovered.


National News Bureau Of Thailand

[misskit]

Indonesia’s Health System Teeters as Country Nears 3M Infections


Soaring coronavirus infections in Indonesia were fast approaching the 3 million mark Monday as a medical association warned that the health-care system was teetering and government officials had yet to announce whether they were extending a partial lockdown in Java and Bali.


Indonesia recorded 1,338 fatalities from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, a new single-day record that pushed the pandemic’s death toll in Southeast Asia’s most populous country to close to 75,000, according to Health Ministry data. The wave of infections have been driven by infections from the highly contagious Delta variant, officials said.


On Sunday, the Indonesian Medical Association said that at least 114 doctors had died from COVID-19 since the start of July. In addition, at least 445 nurses had died from of the virus during the pandemic, it said.


“We are worried that we are on the brink of a collapse, just looking at the number of deaths among doctors,” Mahesa Paranadipa, the head of the association’s mitigation team, told an online discussion.

MORE COVID-19: Indonesia’s Health System Teeters as Country Nears 3M Infections — BenarNews

[Klondyke]

How to understand this (just a small inaccuracy):

Sir Patrick Vallance
@uksciencechief
·
Jul 20
Correcting a statistic I gave at the press conference today, 19 July. About 60% of hospitalisations from covid are not from double vaccinated people, rather 60% of hospitalisations from covid are currently from unvaccinated people.

https://twitter.com/uksciencechief?lang=en

[Klondyke]

60% of people being admitted to UK hospitals are unvaccinated - adviser

LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - Britain's Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance said that 60% of people being admitted to hospital with COVID-19 are unvaccinated, correcting an earlier statement he made on Monday.

Vallance earlier said at a news conference with Prime Minister Boris Johnson that 60% of people being admitted to hospital with COVID-19 have had two doses of vaccine.

"Correcting a statistic I gave at the press conference," Vallance said on Twitter. "About 60% of hospitalisations from COVID are not from double vaccinated people, rather 60% of hospitalisations from COVID are currently from unvaccinated people."


(Chief scientific adviser corrects statement to make clear the 60% figure applies to the unvaccinated, not double vaccinated)

60% of people being admitted to UK hospitals are unvaccinated - adviser | Reuters

[dirk diggler]

My mate got Bell's Palsy off the Pfizer jab. I googled it and apparently it's a thing.

[harrybarracuda]

My mate got Bell's Palsy off the Pfizer jab. I googled it and apparently it's a thing.

And easily treatable with steroids until it goes away.

[harrybarracuda]

[harrybarracuda]

[harrybarracuda]

Darwin working as intended.

On Tuesday, the Cape Cod Times reported that Linda Zuern, a former member of the Bourne, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen and a Trump-supporting figure in the local Republican Party, had died of COVID-19.

Zuern died at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston of severe complications caused by COVID-19, according to the report. She was 70 years old and had not been vaccinated.

"She was a strong woman who believed in speaking the truth and defending our freedoms in America," Republican State Committeewoman Deborah Dugan told the Cape Cod Times. Dugan was at Zuern's bedside when she died. "I would describe her to people as a little woman but a mighty warrior."

For months, Zuern, a member of the pro-Trump group the United Cape Patriots, had promoted conspiracy theories about the pandemic on Facebook. She has shared articles accusing the World Health Organization of a coverup of the "Wuhan Virus" and claiming COVID-19 is cover for "globalists" to usher in "U.N. Agenda 2030" — a sustainable development initiative right-wing conspiracy theorists assert is a plot to create a one world government.

Zuern also expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, posting their creed of "WWG1WGA" (Where We Go One, We Go All).

Zuern promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of COVID-19 during a Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates meeting in December and questioned whether officials "had looked into preventative measures that people could use besides a vaccine to help build up their immune system," the Cape Cod Times reported.

Peter Meier, chair of the Board of Selectmen, said Zuern cared deeply about others. "She definitely left her mark on the community," he added.

According to the report, Zuern and her mother contracted COVID-19 while returning home from a trip to South Dakota — a state where Republican-motivated policies have let the virus propagate with little control.

https://www.rawstory.com/unvaccinated-trump-supporter/

[cyrille]

"She definitely left her mark on the community"

Diplomatic.

[harrybarracuda]

And there's more...

[lom]

^ There should be documentaries made on people like him, showing it all up to their last breath.

[Switch]

Surprised?
Unvaccinated people get very ill and die.✅
Old and vulnerable people die. Vaccinated or not. ✅
Doctors and nurses who deal with the virus up close and personal, every day, die even if they were vaccinated early. ✅

[harrybarracuda]

Bless they've put it all in a pretty picture.

[misskit]

First batch of Russian COVID-19 vaccine rolls of Vietnam production line

Russia’s sovereign wealth fund Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and VABIOTECH, one of Vietnam’s leading pharmaceutical companies, announced the production of a test batch of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine.

Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of RDIF, commented: “The RDIF and VABIOTECH are actively cooperating in the technology transfer process to provide easier access to Sputnik V for the population of Vietnam. As the pandemic is far from over and new, more dangerous variants of coronavirus are being detected in various regions of the world, RDIF is increasing capacities for production of Sputnik V to speed up vaccination with one of the best vaccines in the world.”


The first validation samples taken from the produced batch will be shipped to the Gamaleya Center for the quality control. Sputnik V was granted the approval by Vietnam's Ministry of Health on March 23, 2021.


On the same note, Dat Tuan Do, president of VABIOTECH, said that, “It is a great pleasure for us to work with the RDIF to bring Sputnik V to Vietnam to fight the pandemic. We hope the cooperation between the RDIF and VABIOTECH will help provide quality and affordable COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries.”


To date, Sputnik V has been registered in 68 countries with a total population of over 3.7 billion people, which is nearly half of the global population.


Sputnik V is based on a proven and well-studied platform of human adenoviral vectors and uses two different vectors for the two shots in a course of vaccination, providing immunity with a longer duration than vaccines using the same delivery mechanism for both shots.

First batch of Russian COVID-19 vaccine rolls of Vietnam production line

[misskit]

US life expectancy in 2020 saw biggest drop since WWII

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, public health officials said Wednesday. The decrease for both Black Americans and Hispanic Americans was even worse: three years.


The drop spelled out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is due mainly to the COVID-19 pandemic, which health officials said is responsible for close to 74% of the overall life expectancy decline. More than 3.3 million Americans died last year, far more than any other year in U.S. history, with COVID-19 accounting for about 11% of those deaths.

MORE US life expectancy in 2020 saw biggest drop since WWII