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  1. This isn’t the best news for me. I liked the last update where covid was expected to go down in 4 to 6 weeks. I pray it goes down for all of us and soon, that’s all
  2. “Belittle his own...”? That doesn’t make English sense.
  3. They are right, I agree. An epidemic will cycle up and down in a population. It infects pockets of areas like weed seeds. Once there is sufficient penetration of those pockets the numbers go down and then it seeds a new pocket. Antibody life is not that important. The exposure or the vaccine sensitizes the T cells. Then upon re-exposure the T-cells turn on and tell the B-cells to start making antibodies again. Every vaccine does this. Take hepatitis B vaccine for instance. After the required does of vaccine, the antibodies disappear. Currently, it is not recommended to ever get a booster in 5, 10 or 20 years. It appears that the T-cells may be primed for life. Upon re-exposure the antibodies are made again. There are a lot of negative comments about the Thai Government being late on the vaccines. Do you think they don't know this? They were the recipients of a lot of Sinovac. They put their eggs in that basket. The lockdown cost everyone money. The government coffers must be hurting as well. I am very certain they know all of what is going on and they are trying the best they can. There are some really smart medical doctors advising. I am sorry for everyone. If the money isn't there then it isn't there. What to do but hold on and limit exposure risk factors. I made an offer to the Thai Medical Council to help the other doctors (I am a doctor). They really didn't have any emergency pathway for temporary licensing like many other places in the world. To volunteer in Thailand you need a work permit and for me, a medical license. Many of the US states have a temporary reciprocity until this problem is under control. Docs and nurses are working enormous hours. I would be willing to help but the options are the same as in non-Covid times. I'm sure this is difficult for all. It will likely be a pandemic in the world for 4 more years given the graph of time vs vaccine distribution around the world and some papers the epidemiologists have written. I hope for the best. God bless everyone. Every life is important.
  4. Did you mean to say the possibility of foreigners coming in to the country and catching COVID? I was just wondering if that was a misprint. At 15,000 new cases each day, it must show that there is abundant disease to spread from within the country already.
  5. I hope this helps until the vaccines can get distributed. I’m sure the government doesn’t want to hurt businesses. Their backs are up against the wall. Without enough vaccines what can they do but hope lockdowns help. There are a lot of very smart people in medicine there. Now that there is so much COVID inside Thailand the infection is from within the country. It is hard to imagine that COVID can be stopped by lockdowns without vaccines but perhaps it is the only thing that can be done until vaccines arrive. I surely feel for the decision makers. They are going through some tough times right now and have to make tough choices for the good of Thailand. Let us hope that the vaccine shortage ends soon and this disease get over with.
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