For more than 3 years, the world has been dealing with a catastrophic virus, COVID-19. Since the disease emerged in the People’s Republic of China in late 2019 and the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Then our world was never the same again.
This deadly virus has caused more than 6.66 million deaths worldwide in the past 3 years (as of December 28, 2022). More than 662 million people have been infected worldwide. The economy ceased to stall, companies had to change jobs, reduce the size of the organization, lay off workers because the business could not continue. Many industries have used technology to advance business.
while scientific and medical circles The crisis was used as an opportunity to develop an mRNA vaccine against COVID-19. new kind of world including types of viral vectors and dead bacteria It was developed and implemented rapidly. including cooperation to help patients affected as well as collaborating on innovative ideas and medical equipment to prevent and treat COVID-19
Thailand itself has been affected by COVID-19. Strictly since 2020, the government announced that as Dangerous Communicable Diseases The COVID-19 Emergency Situation Management Center (CCSA) was established to continuously put in place measures for the prevention, control and treatment of the disease. There is a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. both types of infectious agents Viral vector and mRNA to inject Thai people of all ages. Until now, it can be injected by infants 6 months of age and older, with the cumulative total of vaccination in Thailand through the end of 2022 at 144 million doses.
while the severity of the disease has gradually decreased. When the virus continues to mutate from alpha, beta, delta strains to the last one, the strain with the highest percentage of outbreaks worldwide in 2022 is the Omicron strain. which has mutated into more than 540 subspecies and has more than 61 subspecies crosses with the ability to spread faster better dodge immunity But on violence that will cause more severe symptoms or death Still no different from the original Omicron strain. The 5 subspecies of Omikron specifically monitored by the World Health Organization are subspecies BA.2.75, which is the main strain spreading in Thailand at the end of 2022, BA.5, BQ.1, XBB and BA.2.30. 2
And as the world situation improves, the severity of the COVID-19 disease decreases. People can travel back and forth to contact each other. The economy has started to recover, from October 1, 2022 Thailand announced that COVID-19 From dangerous communicable diseases to contagious diseases that need to be monitored Various measures have been relaxed so that Thai people can go back to their normal life. but a normal life in a new way learning to live with COVID-19 consciously self-defense Wearing a mask when you are in a community or in a place where the air is closed and unventilated, everyone knows how to take better care of their own health. If you feel unwell, have fever, cough, sore throat, then test your ATK if it is positive. will receive treatment according to right. Take medicine and go home for treatment for 5 days, then you still have to protect yourself. Isolate yourself from other people for another 5 days.
However, medical scholars predict that direction of the COVID-19 epidemic is no different from other respiratory diseases such as influenza, which are seasonal epidemics. Starting in the winter period from November to January and gradually decrease, then the epidemic will come back when the rainy season comes. And then it gradually decreases and there is a campaign to prevent vaccination which should be injected once a year like the flu shot. or a vaccine can be developed that prevents both influenza andCOVID-19 in a needle
This is the situation of COVID-19. which is an emerging disease that we have only known about for 3 years
But in the year 2022 there are still other diseases that continue to spread according to the season. or an epidemic in a specific area While all parties focus on COVID-19 In some areas there has been a recurrence of old diseases or epidemics. which is endemic But due to the rapid movement of people who can contact each other all over the world, it was found that a disease endemic to one continent appeared and spread to another continent, that is, smallpox monkeys, endemic to Africa. But the epidemic appeared in Europe and America until the World Health Organization had to declare an outbreak of monkeypox. It is an international public health emergency. that Thailand itself is inevitable. We found 12 smallpox patients, both of whom were foreign tourists from the endemic area. and Thais traveling from epidemic areas
As with other diseases, the disease occurs from time to time. But it has caused panic in many countries, such as China’s Lewi virus disease, tomato flu virus disease. in India Mysterious pneumonia in Argentina Or recently found an outbreak of Ebola in many countries in Africa.
for Thailand itself It is expected that Our endemic diseases will spread more, such as fever, joint pain, mosquitoes. Dengue fever which has also started to find other outbreaks and the result of accelerated vaccination against COVID-19 in populations of all ages, resulting in decreased vaccinations among children, such as measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, while the World Health Organization Healthcare has issued a warning to all countries that reduction of vaccination against measles which is an easily contagious respiratory disease will become a threat that can happen in any region. This disease will cause fever, conjunctivitis, cough, red rash all over the body. And in young children there can be complications of pneumonia that can lead to death.
In addition, the National Communicable Disease Committee are closely monitoring the situation of the polio epidemic and preparing to deal with it. Because the epidemic has been found in more than 22 countries, although Thailand has not found polio patients for more than 25 years old.
From the history of the world, we can find that Humanity will have to deal with epidemics from time to time. From the Spanish flu That killed a lot of people, smallpox, whose diseases won’t go away and will keep coming back. not a day. Especially viruses in vertebrates ready to jump into the human body. why we are getting closer and closer to wild animals The obvious example is the assumption that This COVID-19 comes from bats and so far there is no evidence that bats are the culprit. But what we do know for sure is Bats are a breeding ground for disease. of coronaviruses (Coronavirus, CoV), both of which are important intermediates for interspecies transmission. The SARS virus that is known to have sensitized earlier was the SARS virus, which was found to come from crown bats. This can either spread directly to humans or have an intermediary, namely weasel and Mers viruses, which have been reported to be found in camels. and bats until COVID-19 arrived with a bat as the main defendant. There is also the virus that causes Ebola disease. Nipah virus and many others But we still find smuggling, import and export of dried bats to eat according to the beliefs of some groups. Including those who unknowingly perform by eating bats in the hope of gaining likes on social media. It is something that must be very careful and should not be followed.
But even if today we still cannot predict whether there will be new pathogens again in the future or not. But there is still something to be happy about. which has currently our medical technology progressing more and more Both detecting Disease vaccine production and medicines are also effective with rapid results. to keep up with the disease
COVID-19 should be a great book course. which teaches important lessons to humanity in learning to consciously live with disease and consciously protect yourself from disturbing nature.
The most important thing is to “wake up” but not “wake up” to be ready to faceemerging disease that we do not know And not neglected in dealing with recurring diseases that are waiting for the time to attack humanity.
