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Take mpox seriously
News, Editorial, Published on 22/08/2024
» From a country once considered at "almost zero risk" of an mpox outbreak, as declared by a senior health official two years ago, Thailand is now facing an increasing threat after the Department of Disease Control (DDC) confirmed yesterday that a patient who travelled to the kingdom from Africa might be infected with the more serious Clade 1b strain of the disease.
Could've, should've
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/05/2023
» Re: "Thaksin's tweet sparks debate", & "In Quote", (BP, May 2).
Diluting language
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/05/2023
» Re: "Language travails", (PostBag, April 30), and "Spelling it out", (PostBag, May 1).
Let's make a New Year Covid-19 resolution
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 05/12/2022
» Thailand embraces the last month of 2022 not with a winter breeze but with a surge in Covid-19 cases -- a result of a dip in temperatures and increased crowd gatherings, not to mention loosened preventive measures against the infectious disease.
What is China's Covid endgame?
News, Nancy Qian, Published on 18/04/2022
» For most of the past two years, China's "zero-Covid" strategy was seen as a drastic but effective way to maintain impressively low infection rates. Although this strategy has had negative unintended consequences – including restricted medical care for other illnesses, separated families, and various other economic and social disruptions -- it did keep Covid-19 infection rates low. Most people in China, and many observers elsewhere, viewed the costs as a worthwhile price to pay for sparing the broader population of 1.4 billion from the high mortality rates seen in countries like the United States.