The Department of Disease Control confirms that the severe COVID bed is still sufficient. Many provinces open more wards. Because the number of patients is increasing, they find dead bodies without having to check for infection. Revealing that more than half of deaths are caused by other diseases. but found covid together
13 Dec. ’22 – Dr. Sophon Iamsirithaworn, M.D. Deputy Director General Department of Disease Control Mentioned the situation of COVID-19 after reports that many provinces had to open more COVID wards that
During the COVID-19 epidemic, every hospital will use the potential of their beds to take care of COVID. When the situation improves, they adjust back to taking care of patients with other diseases. But now many hospitals think they need to be prepared. because there are more and more patients therefore adjusting the bed system to prepare to take care of COVID again
But the overall picture of the bed is not a problem. The numbers were reported on December 12th. Out of 649 pneumonia patients, 385 were intubated, which was a slight increase from the previous week. Bed occupancy rate among patients in level 2-3 or red and yellow beds It is at a manageable level, which is about 8.5% of all beds. But there are some provinces that refer patients, which may go up to 20-30%, which is still okay because our system can average across health areas.
“In November when the number of patients was still low. We use only 5% of the beds, now it’s up 8.5%, still okay, while the really severe epidemic has gone up 20-30%. People don’t have to worry. Because now we are vaccinated. Most of the time, when infected, they are not seriously ill,” said Dr. Sophon.
When asked if at present, when the body was found and then ATK tested, it was found that he was infected with COVID, causing many people to still be shocked, Dr. Sophon said that initially, we had to look first to see that COVID-19 is a contagious respiratory disease. Compared after this round, COVID is like influenza that can cause illness and death. have an infection The infection that will be encountered often from now on will be these 2 infections.
So if you take good care of yourself worried about getting infected Time to deal with dead bodies Wearing a mask, wearing gloves is enough. There is no need to go to the ATK test again and take the corpse to be handled in a safe manner. because the corpse is not infected Because the corpse does not cough, does not sneeze, but people always have a chance of dying from infectious diseases. Covid is the same Therefore, the COVID test may not be very useful in the future.
Dr. Sophon said that the proportion of deaths must look at the nature of the disease first If it is a death from COVID-19, it must have pneumonia first. makes the lungs unable to work The respiratory system fails. In this case, it is believed that COVID-19 caused death. But in case of other diseases There may be an infection in the blood stream. or heart disease But during that time, there may be a lot of COVID. Therefore, it may be the person who died with COVID 19, but not directly caused by COVID. In the latter case, more than half of the deaths were found.