Dr. Nithipat revealed that Omicron caused pneumonia five times less than Delta, but the 608 group still had the same severe pneumonia.
On July 15, 65, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nithipat Jearakul, Head of the Department of Respiratory Disease and Tuberculosis Department of Internal Medicine Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital Mahidol University Addressing the situation of COVID-19 in Thailand that from the report of the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration or CCP that reported the number of infected people admitted to The hospital is about ten thousand people. About 800 pneumonia cases, while the number of infected people treated and taken care of at home is estimated to be around 3-5 thousand, which is a relatively small proportion of pneumonia, about 8% of people who are hospitalized. During the delta outbreak, approximately 30-40% of cases of pneumonia were found, so the latest omikron outbreak is thought to have caused about five times less pneumonia cases than Delta. Compared to the severity of pneumonia, there was no difference between the omikron and delta strains, but this round of omikron strains. The vast majority of people with pneumonia are already in poor health, group 608, and more than half are not vaccinated against the coronavirus for various reasons. and about half of them may have received 1 shot, some 2 shots, some have had very few boosters,” said Assoc. Therefore, people are asked to get enough booster vaccination to prevent serious illness and death.