Thread by @drmusanordin

PM, NSC, KKM, MOSTI putting all their eggs in the Vaccine Basket!
No one is doubting importance of ramping up V-rollout.
BUT it must NOT be done at the expense of FTTIS.
Protection for individual is at least 5 weeks after 1st dose.
Protection for nation earliest 4th quarter (1)

Meanwhile we must ramp-up Testing!
We must detect the infected, isolate them and stop them from becoming outbreaks or clusters
Ramp-up Testing to drop Positive Rate <5%
Conservative estimate of daily test is 1% of the unvaccinated population

We’ve vaccinated 5 Million
Test required = 1/100 X 27 Million = 270,000
Tests from 19/7-21/7 =107,495 (11.06%)
Positive rate since May 2021 >5%
We can do 350-400K vaccinations daily but not Testing. Why?
Testing tak glamor berbanding dgn Vaksin ke?
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WHO syor:
Tingkat akses ujian secara percuma
Luaskan penjujukan genom
Beri insentif kpd yg jalani kuarantin
Asing kes positif.
Kesan kontak utk putuskan rantai penularan
Beri vaksin kpd golongan risiko tinggi.
FTTIS-V adalah ABC pengurusan pandemik

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Wake Up Call for PM, NSC, PPN, MOH, GKVTF, MOSTI et al
UK, Israel & Holland are well ahead of us in Vaccine Coverage
Yet are experiencing exponential spikes of Delta covid!
Stop putting all your eggs in the Vaccine Basket

Big time Vaccine push and indifference to the back to basics of Public Health (PH) is insane!
This is not a push & pull between Vaccines & FTTIS
Both are integral components of Public Health Pandemic Management
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24/7/2021 155K people tested/day (Positive Rate 10.2%)
23/7/2021 500K vaccine doses/day
This chronic marginalization of FTTIS since May 2021 has kept our Positive rate >5% ie Pandemic Out Of Control

Speed is of the essence
It took KKM 6 months before decanting non-covid & creating more covid hospitals
GKVTF had to be pushed to kickstart “CAC Maya” an idea mooted since Jan 2021
Is it any wonder we are in this terribly deadly mess?
Our rakyat are dropping dead like flies!

We need new guys at the helm of KKM, not old tired faces, short on ideas, biz as usual mindset.
They’ve failed us since Oct 2020.
The present is like a 6pm news reader churning out numbers with no serious strategy to exit the nation out of this pandemic drmusanordin.com/2021/05/23/pkp…

I’d advocate an authentic Public Health Physician from the army to helm KKM.
Not a surgeon or obgyn etc please.
For strategic leadership, precision, coordination and regimented logistics
of our broken hospital & ICU services
Time, Tide and Delta waits for no man!

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