Zhang Wenhong: We must have three weapons to fight the epidemic in the future

According to the People’s Daily, at 10:00 on March 17th, Shanghai held the 125th press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. When interpreting the new version of the national diagnosis and treatment plan, he said that the current focus in professional medical institutions is stratified treatment and stratified treatment. “We will stratify patients according to mild, severe and high-risk factors. Mild and ordinary patients will be stratified. Mild patients and asymptomatic people will be isolated in designated isolation points with medical conditions for observation. We More medical resources can be set aside to treat critically ill patients.”

“Through the formulation of these major standards, we will make room for our future fight against the epidemic. It will feel that patients will be discharged faster, and the hospital will have mild symptoms. It can be treated in a centralized manner. Severe cases are admitted to designated hospitals. The centralized treatment points also have certain medical observation and monitoring capabilities. The hierarchical management method will bring a lot of needed medical resources to the optimization of medical resources. We can be sure of the epidemic.”

Zhang Wenhong said that there are several very important conditions for future epidemic prevention and control: vaccine protection, improvement of treatment capacity and sufficient medical redundancy. The information I conveyed to you at this press conference is that there have been great changes in these three aspects, even small molecule drugs in therapeutic drugs, including China’s own antibody drugs, which were ineffective before or were not effective. The identified drugs are all removed, and I will not introduce them any more. In a word, we have three weapons for the future: First, adequate injection of vaccines; second, we need to support effective antiviral drugs and other drugs including traditional Chinese medicine; third, there is a very sufficient medical redundancy . This update of the diagnosis and treatment plan is a very strategic adjustment in the entire process of fighting the epidemic. The medical community is very much looking forward to these adjustments. When will they be implemented? Director Wu has convened the Shanghai expert group for discussion, and the leaders of the Health and Health Commission have also discussed. .

Edit Zhao Xi