Covid-19 Global Pandemic Crisis: Infected Rates To Hit 1 Million and Deaths To 20,000 In A Fortnight. Situation In China Emerging, In Truth No Vaccine Till Another 15 Months
Source: Covid-19 News Mar 19, 2020 4 years, 9 months, 4 days, 6 hours, 59 minutes ago
As of Thursday morning, (9am, Bangkok Time) the total official number of
Covid-19 infected cases globally is now 219,058 and deaths 8,953.The figures on an extremely conservative level is expected to reach a million official infected cases by a fortnight and roughly about 20,000 deaths. (this provided countries have enough testing kits and are truthful in their reporting) From our own rough estimates, at there are at least already more than 2.8 million people globally already infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and spreading it exponentially by the hour.
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The only practical solution to solving the problem temporarily is extreme isolation, lock downs and social distancing while the infected are identified and isolated and treated.
The “leave it as it is herd immunity” approach is not highly not recommended as it will only increase death and infected rates.
Individuals are advised to be highly responsible and to practice necessary precautions and to self-isolate even if the country you are in is not advocating to do so.
Do not panic or be paranoid but take safety measures. Start stocking up on food and necessities so that it assists in your self-isolation but please have a heart for the less unfortunate.
Social distancing is important but complete self isolation is better.
Reports are emerging that the situation in China is fast rising again despite cover ups by the Chinese government and lies on their media sites. More domestic cases are emerging in Wuhan and the rest of Hubei and in Zhejiang province, the lockdown is now being more secured now in the last 24 hours by the Chinese army due to a high surge of cases.
We are not here to spread fake news or to cause undue anxiety but merely reporting the truth despite being forced to not do so.
The real truth is that because of the emergence of new strains of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, a “broad spectrum” vaccine will take a long time to develop and be ready. Realistically in about 15 to 18 months. Whatever news being currently disseminated about trials etc are to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Though many disagree with us, we highly recommend healthcare professionals and individuals who are highly exposed to start taking pre and post prophylaxis such as those we talked about, though more efficacy studies are still needed. (
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-coronavirus-research-could-echinacea-act-as-a-prophylaxis-against-the-sars-cov-2-coronavirus-more-research-warranted) and (
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-coronavirus-research-shows-that-arbidol-could-help-in-post-exposure-prophylaxis-pep-of-covid-19-transmission-among-healthcare-workers) (please do not contact TMN for procurement, we do not sell or supply these)
The epidemic is expected to last for as long as 15 to 18 months till a vaccine and proper drugs for treatment are found.
At the moment despite all the media coverage, the various drug candidate
s might not be effective as we are dealing with different emerging strains with different modes of attacking the human cells ie from ACE-Receptors to Furin cleavage, GRP78 receptors sites to CD147 sites etc (
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-new-coronavirus-research-shows-that-the-sars-cov-2-coronavirus-has-a-fourth-route-of-attacking-human-host-cells-making-it-a-real-super-virus)
It is wrong to assume that the virus only attacks the old or those with chronic disease, this is no longer true. In various countries at the moment, all ages including children are being infected this is largely due to the fact the mutated virus has many different strains circulating at the moment.
Many entities like WHO, CDC, NIH are trying to play down the seriousness of the SARS-Cov-2 but in reality as we have warned from the beginning,( please refer to all our earlier articles, the pandemic will come in waves, each time attacking the general population with a new strain and a different way of attacking the body and even for those recovered, it is only the beginning of what medical science needs to discover through research as to how the virus will affect infected individuals in the short term, midterm or longterm after so called ‘recovery’.
It is critical for all researchers and medical experts worldwide to share data and to talk to each other across all specialties. Also stop discounting pre-print research reports and non-peer-reviewed studies, a lot of critical data can be found in many of these especially from the Chinese researchers on ground level. Not everybody has the luxury in these critical times to get a peer-reviewed study published in medical journals. And stop labeling things as fake and misinformation if you do not have the right training or understanding.
We also ask for lawyers worldwide to help to start taking class actions against entities like facebook, AFP and some of their fact-checkers having labeled certain past critical data as fake news and also certain government agencies worldwide who do so. We are also publicly putting up a list of all these people as society needs to start taking action against some of these social media platforms, so called medical experts and also health and government authorities who had in the past few months labeled issues like the virus can be spread via airborne transmissions as fake news, that the virus is capable of causing infertility in men as fake news , that the virus has long incubation periods as fake news or that the virus is mutating as fake news etc. Such individuals should be held accountable and shamed in public for trying to conceal the truth and using the fake news platforms in the wrong way.
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