The Joint Prevention and Control Unit of the State Council is scheduled to hold a press conference at 3:00 pm on April 12 (Tuesday) at the Press Conference Hall of the Xizhimen Office Area of the National Health and Health Commission (No. 38, Beilishi Road, Xicheng District). The responsible comrades of the relevant departments and bureaus of the Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Health and Health Commission and relevant experts will be present to introduce the situation of strict and conscientious efforts to prevent and control the epidemic, and answer questions from the media. The live broadcast on China.com. The following is the transcript:
Reporter from Dragon TV: Recently there have been remarks that the proportion of asymptomatic infections is large, and centralized isolation may cause the risk of medical runs. It is recommended to isolate at home, but some people It is believed that the home isolation of asymptomatic infected persons will have a great hidden danger of social virus transmission. How contagious are asymptomatic infected people, and how can they be prevented from bringing further prevention and control risks to families and communities? thanks.
Wu Zunyou: Thank you for your question. First of all, we need to have a scientific and accurate understanding of the concept of “asymptomatic infection”. When we diagnose a person as asymptomatic infection, some of them are likely to be in an incubation period of confirmed cases, and after observing for a period of time Symptoms will appear and even develop into severe disease. If it is not detected and treated in time, there will still be risks. Therefore, at a certain point in time, some of the infected people we found were not the real asymptomatic infected people, but the incubation period of confirmed cases, that is, the so-called “asymptomatic infected people” with quotation marks. If home isolation is still risky, this risk is manifested in two aspects: one is that it is possible to continue to spread the epidemic, and the other is that if the progress of his condition cannot be detected in time, he may miss the best treatment. Period, may develop into severe or even life-threatening.
It should be said that centralized isolation has three advantages: First, all asymptomatic and mild cases under centralized isolation observation are all infected, and there will be no problem of cross-transmission and spread. The second is that during the centralized isolation of asymptomatic and mild infected people, he can receive treatment with traditional Chinese medicine, on the one hand to improve immunity, on the other hand to prevent these asymptomatic mild diseases from evolving into severe or critical diseases. Third, due to centralized isolation and observation, if a patient develops severe disease, it can be detected and transferred in time. Therefore, if there are mild and asymptomatic infections, we must try our best to gather these people to designated locations. Isolation point to quarantine observation. thanks.