“Mo Yong warns COVID-19 to spread after election & school year, advises high-risk groups to get vaccinated; severity of disease reduced, but not infections – Prof. Dr. Yong Phuwarawan, Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology, Chulalongkorn Univ.”

2023-05-02 02:27:36

“Mo Yong” reveals that COVID-19 will likely spread more at the end of the month after the election – during the school year. advise high-risk groups to get vaccinated Although unable to prevent infection but can reduce the severity of the disease

On May 2, 2023, Prof. Dr. Yong Phuwarawan, Head of the Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology Department of Pediatrics Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University Post a message about COVID-19 The outbreak is likely to increase, indicating that COVID-19 has adapted to a seasonal disease. and for Thailand It will start to spread when entering the rainy season. especially during the first semester of students And this year, together with the election campaign There is a large gathering of people Great chance to spread The disease will become more common later this month after the election. and students who have opened the semester

Currently found species Almost all of them were XBB, especially XBB.1.5, which replaced the plague strain. since the beginning of the year is BA.2.75, but all species It is also a descendant of Omicron, which species is more easily attached. Better at evading immunity will replace The star species XBB.1.16 is still very rare. All species are now distributed worldwide. The severity of the disease was greatly reduced. Compared to the original strain (more than 90%), those who are severe or die, most of them are in the vulnerable group Risk group or what we call 608

Currently available vaccines Although it is not possible to prevent infection. but can reduce the severity of the disease Therefore, vulnerable risk groups should be vaccinated. and to be regarded as a seasonal vaccine that must be injected before the rainy season, which is in this month as well as the flu vaccine which can be given at the same time by injecting at different positions or on different arms

Currently used vaccines, if it is mRNA, the vaccine will be 2 types, bivalent, that is, the original strain, Wuhan, combined with Omikron that is used in our country, if it is Pfizer, it will be BA.1, and Moderna will be. Moderna’s BA.5 contains half the amount of RNA (50 mcg) of the single strain vaccine we used in the past (100 mcg).

In healthy individuals under 60 years of age, vaccination is voluntary. because the severity of the disease will be less than the 608 risk group, finally in the near term believe The World Health Organization would likely stop counting the number of people infected. because the numbers reported to the World Health Organization much lower than reality Including Thailand has not counted the number of infected people. Only those who are admitted to the hospital are counted. and the deceased The number of infected people is tens of times higher than the number hospitalized.

Thanks for the information from Facebook Yong Poovorawan.