Dr. Somkiat Tangkitvanich
The President of TDRI attended the seminar. Business Nation’s “Economic Vaccine” Thailand Vaccines “Claim by AstraZeneca is effective enough and unless Thailand has COVID-19 There are still 3 economic diseases that need to be addressed.
Minor side effects from AstraZeneca
March 17, 2021 Dr. Somkiat Tangkitvanich During the seminar, the President of the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) spoke. “Economic Vaccine Vaccine Thailand” From newspapers “Prachachat Business” Said although control of COVID-19 in Samut Sakhon has improved for a while but it’s still a big fire that is difficult to put out without a vaccine. Hence, vaccines are indispensable tools.
We learn two things from COVID-19: 1. Fewer deaths from COVID-19 are caused by a variety of reasons, such as improved medical care. Drug treatment for symptoms caused by COVID-19 and have a better understanding of how to deal with this disease
2. There are residual symptoms of COVID-19 like Wuhan, China. A study of patients with the disease six months after leaving the hospital found that 76% of people had residual symptoms such as fatigue. What similar symptoms are there in the western continent?
“The COVID-19 Vaccine From Good Outcome, Low Risk Companies Especially from AstraZeneca, which chose Thailand According to data published in the medical journal The Lancet, England, the effectiveness of each vaccine was no different. After the British Choosing the AstraZeneca Vaccine And Pfizer For People In The Country Over 70 Found That Efficiency Was Not Inferior To Each Other. “
Meanwhile, Post-Vaccination Admission Rate Have Less Severe Symptoms In addition, AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines had less than 0.5% of side effects and fewer serious side effects. Like the flu with these two vaccines, no deaths were recorded.
Political leaders need to build trust.
“Dr. Somkiat,” said The Economist magazine that some countries like the United States, Israel, etc. are the countries that will complete vaccination of the population by 2021. Will complete vaccination in mid-2022 and Thailand by the end of 2022
“But if you look at neighboring Thailand like Burma, Laos, Cambodia, there is a chance you could get vaccinated after 2022, which could hit Thailand in another wave of COVID-19.”
There are three main reasons some countries start vaccinating:
1. a group of poor countries, like some countries in Africa
2. Population countries like China and India.
3. The countries that control the outbreak well. Hence there has been a slow awakening to vaccines like Thailand, South Korea and Vietnam.
However, the acceptance of vaccinations in Thailand is high. A YouGov poll in late 2020 identified Thailand as the most vaccinated country in the world. After that, the acceptance of the vaccination by the Thai people has steadily declined.
“So it is very important for political leaders to send a signal to reassure people. If some government officials are afraid to be vaccinated And poorly communicated Will destroy people’s trust in the AstraZeneca vaccine “
3 economic disease
“Dr. Somkiat” gave an example of a speech given by Dr. Prasarn Trairatworakul, the chairman of the TDRI board of directors, who said 4 to 5 years ago that the Thai economy suffers from three diseases: 1. The flu 2. The osteoarthritis 3 The lack of self-confidence
The flu economy is Thailand can be affected by the global economy at any time. If the economic downturn in the world of course, it also affects Thailand. But in order to get sick like this, we can take financial action to stimulate them.
The osteoarthritis economy is infrastructure issues that are contributing to the decline of the Thai economy, such as the workforce and failure to improve the ability to use good technology in the country
And a lack of confidence in the economy is the Thai feeling that the economy is on a downward trend, while in neighboring countries, especially competing countries like Vietnam I’m on an upward trend
Hence, Thailand is easily shaken by news like foreign factories that have moved from Thailand to establish a manufacturing base in Vietnam. Has received higher foreign investment than Thailand. And has higher exports than Thailand. These things raise concerns that we cannot compete.
“In fact, Thailand is more competitive than Vietnam. And More Ready With the World Economic Forum (WEF) economic competition ranking in 2021, Thailand ranked 40th and Vietnam 67th, with Thailand beating Vietnam by every metric. But what is worrying is Vietnam continues to rise while Thailand continues to decline, with Thailand in 38th place and Vietnam in 77th place by 2020. One day Vietnam will overtake us “
