Sorry, but color me skeptical.
The source, "Thailand Medical News", is crammed with alarmist headlines that mostly end in exclamation points. I suspect a bit of exaggeration for click-bait.
I looked up the local news in Japan, just for comparison since they focused on Japan.
As of yesterday, the Japan Times in a "everything you need to …
The source, "Thailand Medical News", is crammed with alarmist headlines that mostly end in exclamation points. I suspect a bit of exaggeration for click-bait.
I looked up the local news in Japan, just for comparison since they focused on Japan.
As of yesterday, the Japan Times in a "everything you need to know" article said that (a) the BA.5 (90% of the cases) is no worse than the other variants (it lasts around 7 days), and some have no symptoms at all; and (b) natural immunity does seem to cut down chance of reinfection - by 75-80% if they had a recent bout, and by 23% for the older variants.
As for the linked Australia news article, they made dubious claims like: "It is now estimated only about 45 per cent of people infected with the virus are officially reported..."
-- which makes me ask, How can you know about cases that AREN'T reported? Your crystal ball tells you that the number is actually double?
Let's not jump every time someone yells, "wolf!" We've been shown that movie for 2 years already, and I for one am tired of it.
Sorry, but color me skeptical.
The source, "Thailand Medical News", is crammed with alarmist headlines that mostly end in exclamation points. I suspect a bit of exaggeration for click-bait.
I looked up the local news in Japan, just for comparison since they focused on Japan.
As of yesterday, the Japan Times in a "everything you need to know" article said that (a) the BA.5 (90% of the cases) is no worse than the other variants (it lasts around 7 days), and some have no symptoms at all; and (b) natural immunity does seem to cut down chance of reinfection - by 75-80% if they had a recent bout, and by 23% for the older variants.
As for the linked Australia news article, they made dubious claims like: "It is now estimated only about 45 per cent of people infected with the virus are officially reported..."
-- which makes me ask, How can you know about cases that AREN'T reported? Your crystal ball tells you that the number is actually double?
Let's not jump every time someone yells, "wolf!" We've been shown that movie for 2 years already, and I for one am tired of it.