Currently, the number of new local infections in my country is still at a high level, and the epidemic is still in the developing stage. Inoculation of the new crown vaccine is the best measure to prevent severe illness and death after infection. However, some groups cannot be vaccinated due to physical reasons. How should they, especially the elderly and those with underlying diseases, be protected?
If you can’t get vaccinated, you must protect yourself from four aspects
Wang Huaqing, chief expert of the immunization program of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, recently held a joint prevention and control of the State Council. The mechanism press conference stated that as of now, vaccination against the new crown is the best measure to prevent severe illness and death after infection.
I can’t get vaccinated due to some special circumstances, or can’t get vaccinated temporarily, how should I protect myself? In this regard, Wang Huaqing gives four suggestions:
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Wang Huaqing also reminded to protect Good elderly people, people around the elderly, should do personal protection, especially at home and other people who come into contact with the elderly should be vaccinated, which is a kind of protection for the elderly. In addition, if the health code is abnormal, it is recommended not to contact the elderly again. Once infected, the risk of infecting the elderly is very high.
Does the increase in the proportion of asymptomatic infections mean that the harm of the new coronavirus is becoming less and less?
In this round of the epidemic, the proportion of asymptomatic infections has increased, and many people wonder whether this means that the harm of the new coronavirus is getting smaller and smaller, and the new coronavirus is developing into a flu.
The number of confirmed cases and asymptomatic infections in Shanghai has increased recently. The new International Expo Center in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area is under intense construction and will become another centralized isolation point in Shanghai for the treatment of mild and asymptomatic infections, with more than 15,000 beds designed. The picture shows the interior of the quarantine area of the New International Expo Center (photographed on March 30). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Ting
In response, Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that with the increasing proportion of the population vaccinated against the new crown virus, the population’s immunity to the new crown virus continues to rise. The increase, and the pathogenicity of the Omicron variant strain itself is not as strong as that of other strains, the clinical severity of infected people is calculated according to the proportion of the number of cases per 100, and it has indeed declined.
But Wu Zunyou emphasized that asymptomatic infection is only a concept of a point-in-time state. Today’s asymptomatic infection may become a mild or ordinary case tomorrow or the day after, and people should pay more attention to its infection. the level of sexuality.
Recently, the Xiaoyinshan Fangcai Hospital located in Tonghua City, Jilin Province has been preliminarily completed. The picture shows the Tonghua Xiaoyinshan Fangcai Hospital under reconstruction (photographed on March 29).
In this regard, Wu Zunyou introduced that due to its rapid spread and large number of infected people, the total number of deaths and social harm and impact caused by the epidemic have not been alleviated. This also suggests that the harm of the Omicron strain is still serious, and the new coronary pneumonia is not a “big flu”.
Especially for a country with a large population such as my country, a very small morbidity or mortality rate multiplied by a population base of 1.4 billion will result in a very large absolute number. Only by doing dynamic clearing can we eliminate the hidden dangers of the epidemic, avoid the run on medical resources that may be caused by large-scale crowd infection, and prevent a large number of possible deaths of the elderly or those with underlying diseases.
Source: Xinhuanet
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