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Thundon Ngamprasertchai replied to the topic Week 1 Topic 3 Before planning for a surveillance system in the forum TMHG528 Disease Surveillance and Public Health Investigation 2020 3 years, 11 months ago
Of course, should be COVID-19 surveillance system. Nowadays there are almost 70 million people infected and nearly, 1.6 million deaths. Severity are varied among age group particularly in elderly. In addition, due to virus tolerability, they are highly transmissible by contact and droplets. All global organization are interested in COVID-19.…[Read more]
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Thundon Ngamprasertchai replied to the topic Week 1 Topic 2 We have learned that there are several types in the forum TMHG528 Disease Surveillance and Public Health Investigation 2020 3 years, 11 months ago
I would apply additional surveillance systems to COVID-19 as follows,
– Syndromic surveillance system; This will be used for person who returned from high-risk countries or had history of contact patients. If they have respiratory tract symptoms, doctor should test COVID-19. Since we have to control epidemic spreading.
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Thundon Ngamprasertchai replied to the topic Week 1 Topic 1 According to Table 7 in the forum TMHG528 Disease Surveillance and Public Health Investigation 2020 3 years, 11 months ago
In my point of view, a strength of public health surveillance in Thailand is “early warning”. The best scenario is the first episode of COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020. Thailand was the first country demonstrated infected case outside China mainland. This is because we detected early suspected cases inbound flight. All suspected should be pro…[Read more]
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