Dr. Yong Phuworawan, the head of the Center specializes in clinical virology. Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University Posted a message via private Facebook that the virus coviral-19 Omicron species are easy to contact. along with having fun And a long holiday during the new year, so the results will find more patients in the period from now on not strange
“I’m with the laboratory. A few days of lab tests now know the numbers and rates of COVID-19 detection. Increasingly, patients, infected people, from now on, will definitely start to skyrocket. how high will it rise It would depend on the treatment from now on. That everyone must work together to reduce the number to a level that the health system can support. The rates of severe morbidity and mortality compared to the number of cases are lower than during the Delta outbreak, said Yong.
However, what is important now Must speed up and stimulate the 3rd dose of vaccine as much as possible and quickly. Especially in the 608 risk group, it is well known that over the age of 60 and or have 8 chronic diseases to reduce their severity.
Treatment will accept patients with severe symptoms to the hospital. in the green group It is necessary to isolate yourself at home. or in a community that is organized community isolate in order to reduce the work of healthcare workers to have time to care for patients with severe symptoms.
Dr. Yong further stated that from the information of Johns Hopkins University It can be seen that the global outbreak occurs in 4 waves when comparing the morbidity and mortality rate. It can be seen that the morbidity and mortality rate tends to decrease. If starting from the first year, the morbidity and mortality rate reaches 3-5%, when entering the second year, it starts to drop to 2% and has a tendency to always decrease. until the surge of Omikron is currently spreading The morbidity and mortality rate is 0.3%, and there is hope for further reductions.
The mortality rate during the Delta outbreak in Thailand was less than the global average. Mortality rate at about 1% and hopefully during the Omikron outbreak should be lower than the global average and if possible If the global morbidity rate is less than 0.1% or one thousandth will enter the era of seasonal respiratory diseases that will create most of the problems for the risk group and fragile groups such as influenza
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