Reporter: Yang Chengchen
Editor's note
The National Commendation Conference for Fighting the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 8.
As one of the journalists involved in the fight against the epidemic, Yang Chengchen, a young reporter from China News Agency, was commended as the "National Advanced Individual in the Fight against the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic" as a representative of the China News Agency's war epidemic reporting group.
After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Yang Chengchen returned to Wuhan to visit relatives on January 21. The next day he joined the frontline reporting team of the new crown pneumonia epidemic under the overall arrangement of the head office and persisted until the victory in the fight against the epidemic in Hubei. Epidemic journey.
During the 86-day interview in Wuhan, Yang Chengchen entered the core areas of the epidemic such as South China Seafood Wholesale Market, Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan University People's Hospital, and issued "Revisiting Wuhan South China Seafood Wholesale Market: Life Still Continues" and "Interview with Jinyintan Hospital Severe Disease" Commando: Race Against Time and Death" "Features: Follow Academician Li Lanjuan's "Red Zone" Rounds" "Wuhan Medical Staff "New Year's Eve Dinner": Delivering Meal by Shuttle Bus in Isolation Service" "Interview with French Doctors in Han: Prepare Champagne and Wait for My Wife to Come Back and other first-hand reports with a wide spread range and a deep impression on readers.
Today, Yang Chengchen wrote down this reporter's note, recalling the days of fighting the epidemic.
I returned to Wuhan on January 21. My original intention was to go home for the New Year. I planned to fly to Xinjiang on the third day of the Lunar New Year to visit my parents-in-law; but I never thought that I would witness history in my hometown of Wuhan in the next three months. And the waves are magnificent and thrilling.
The picture shows the author interviewed at the rehabilitation station.
Photo by An Yuan
In the middle of the night after returning home, Wuhan announced the closure of the city.
I formally joined the front reporting team of China News Agency in the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
My first task was to go to the Wu-E highway intersection to interview the situation of the vehicle's exit from the city. Two fellow branch colleagues had just visited Wuhan Xiehe Hospital for an interview a few days ago.
Two colleagues said that the outpatient clinic was overcrowded, and they heard that some patients had waited for more than 6 hours, and they also had mild cough symptoms.
It turned out that two colleagues had a common cold, but the intensity of my work on the first day can be imagined.
Later, I learned that such worries linger in the hearts of all members of the front report team of China News Service; however, as work gets busy, especially the rapid development of the epidemic in Wuhan, it is slowly ignored by everyone.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, three of the four major hospitals in Wuhan sent out "distress signals" to the outside world due to the shortage of medical protective materials. The citizens of Wuhan more intuitively felt the serious threat to normal life brought by the epidemic.
On the evening of January 25, under the topic of the report group, I issued my first commentary article after the outbreak "Wuhan still needs to pass the three barriers". At that time, the "daughter confidence" was the confidence in modern medicine to defeat the virus. , Confidence in all aspects of society to form a joint effort to overcome difficulties, and confidence in us to survive the most thrilling moments since Wuhan was founded.
It can be said that my subsequent work has been developed and carried out around this clue.
The picture shows the author interviewing community workers in Huanghelou Street.
Photo by An Yuan
In my memory, the "darkest moment" of the new crown pneumonia epidemic is from the end of January to mid-February.
During this period of time, I was most impressed with three interviews. One was to walk into the South China Seafood Wholesale Market with a colleague to hit the core area of the original virus infection; the second was to get an exclusive opportunity to follow Academician Li Lanjuan into the "red zone" round; Another time, I went to Jinyintan Hospital to interview the head of the medical team who temporarily supported the hospital's reconstruction of the intensive care unit.
At the end of January, when we went to the South China Seafood Wholesale Market, the front reporting team issued protective clothing to each reporter. My colleagues and I did a full set of protection before we set off. We also negotiated that it was not a last resort to avoid getting off the train and getting the virus near the market.
But when we arrived by car, we found that the actual situation was very different from what we imagined-life around us is still going on, and we can see nearby residents go downstairs to buy necessities.
Facing the left-behind security guards at the South China Seafood Market and the merchants in the South China Vegetable and Fruit Market, we stepped forward to talk, hoping to understand how people in the "eye of the storm" spent the "dark moment".
They were helpless for the sudden and huge changes in their lives. Working and living near the market seemed to have become "original sins." At that time, they realized that even if the epidemic is eliminated and life recovers in the future, people's strange vision will continue for some time.
We issued the manuscript "Revisiting Wuhan South China Seafood Wholesale Market: Life Still Continues" that night.
I grew up in the courtyard of the People's Hospital of Wuhan University.
The familiar environment made me work in Wuhan for three months to some extent.
Interviews with Academician Li Lanjuan and the Critical Assault Team of Jinyintan Hospital are somewhat related to this.
The picture shows the author interviewing Academician Li Lanjuan.
Photo by An Yuan
Since academician Li arrived in the East Campus of Wuhan University People’s Hospital in early February, she has attracted the attention of various media. She has experienced many battles and brought "four antibodies and two balance" treatment methods, and the team is studying related drugs. Hope to fight the epidemic.
Since then, I have continued to maintain close contact with the team.
The opportunity to follow the ward round was in mid-February. The three reporters from our social media team took full protection to follow the interview and film the whole process of the 73-year-old Academician Li working in the intensive care unit.
After several hours of hard work, she walked out of the ward, and the camera colleague took pictures of the moment when her face had obvious mask pressure marks.
This photo was widely circulated on social media, which moved many people and transformed confidence in the improvement of the anti-epidemic work.
On the night of the New Year's Eve, a photo circulated on the Internet. After working day and night, a doctor took off his protective clothing and his shirt was almost drenched.
The protagonist of this photo comes from Yu Chai, deputy director of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, People's Hospital of Wuhan University.
Since January 11, he has been instructed to lead a team to Jinyintan on duty to support and transform the general ward into an intensive care unit. Until the time of our interview, he had worked continuously for more than 20 days.
Yoo’s interview site was originally in the room of Doctor Yu Chai, but due to lack of cleaning staff during the epidemic in the hotel where they lived, their bedroom was "chaotically messed up" with dirty clothes piled on the bed and hung in front of the windowsill. Instant noodles and mineral water are everywhere.
The doctors voluntarily asked, "Go downstairs and find a cleaner place." When we came to the closed cafe in the lobby, some doctors sighed, "I am really in a trance entering the cafe at this time. The tension during this period of time is too unmatched.” Perhaps the environment that was drawn away from the hospital seemed to them all in a trance.
That night, Dr. Yu Chai invited almost all the doctors and nurses who were not on duty to come to our camera, and the photography colleagues took a group photo of them.
During the interview, the doctors who didn't answer the question almost fell asleep, and our conversation with the doctors continued in "unbearable".
After the interview, we went to another resident room where the doctors and nurses rested to take a photo for them. It was close to 12 o'clock in the evening, but the doctors and nurses were very interested, and their positive and energetic state surprised us, but also gratified.
During the nearly 3 hours of chat, we seemed to see the real Jinyintan. The newlyweds signed up to Jinyintan and did not tell each other that they met in the hospital; the doctors did not have enough protective clothing, so they made their own protective clothing to face the droplets sprayed by patients with non-invasive intubation. .
But at the same time, it is difficult to realize the tension of their uninterrupted "fighting" and racing with death in a short interview.
The special concern of Jinyintan Hospital is the commonality reported by every media during the epidemic.
For me, there is more of a simple feeling from the doctors in the hospital where my father is staying.
The picture shows the author's interview center isolation point.
Photo by An Yuan
With many interviews, the emotions towards family and hometown are in flow and accumulation.
Wuhan, especially Wuchang, is the city where I grew up. It is a lively to a bit noisy city. From "premature" in the morning to midnight snack, it seems that there is no moment to stop it.
However, the epidemic did it, and it suddenly became silent with no effort.
The neon lights of the high-rise buildings on the two rivers and four banks are still bright, and the roads are empty. Only the killing workers in full protective clothing can be seen occasionally.
Walking on Jiefang Road where the elementary school, junior high school, and high school are located, the sense of dislocation with reality becomes stronger.
There is an old Cao Xiangtai brand on this road that specializes in a type of mung bean cake preferred by southerners. The crowds who line up during the holidays almost stand on the road.
This year's New Year, there was no accident, the rolling shutter doors were locked, and the delicious Wuhan people were kept at home.
Street cadres are on duty at the exit with red armbands. The old community with small roads extending in all directions is difficult to manage. At this time, they need to take turns to stand guard 24 hours a day.
They recalled that there were young people who had come across the wall, old residents who complained that they could not eat meat, and residents who had smoked cigarettes at home and asked them to help them buy cigarettes to "extend their lives" late at night.
The nearby Yellow Crane Tower witnessed the glory and suffering of the city. In the "Sakura March", when the tourists did not return, the security guards took out their hot water bottles and plug-in boards to provide them to those stranded in Wuhan who had nowhere to go.
With the Yellow Crane Tower as the center, we visited the nearby business districts and old communities, and issued the manuscript "The Yellow Crane Tower in the "Closed City"". We can deeply feel the basic level of civil servants, street vendors, and four generations. Tang’s "old Wuhan", their general optimism and open-mindedness are one of the guarantees that the city can survive the epidemic.
During the epidemic, it is not difficult to see the reposts and videos of complaining about the community and the hospital on the Internet, which can be seen from the pungency of Wuhan people.
But it is precisely this benefit of not vomiting upset and not keeping emotions in the heart, so that thousands of citizens can finally get through the difficulties even after going through hardships.
The picture shows the author interviewing Jianghan Fangcai Hospital, which is about to open a cabin to accept patients.
Photo by An Yuan
As square cabins rose from the ground in February, nearly 40,000 doctors and countless living and medical supplies rushed to help from all over the country, and the epidemic was getting better day by day.
The tenacity and support of tens of millions of citizens is the first force to reopen the gate of Wuhan's "closure".
"Closing the city" is a necessary move for "internal non-proliferation and external defense". Ten million citizens of Wuhan have made great sacrifices and dedication for this.
During the "closing of the city", more than 60,000 local doctors in Wuhan and medical team members from other places fought side by side, saving the people from water and fire, liberating the people from hanging upside down, and fighting the poisonous demon in Jiangcheng. Many doctors and nurses were infected and some died heroically.
To push open the tightly "sealed" city gate of Wuhan, it is obviously not enough to rely on the people of one city and one place to support each other and fight with their lives.
It needs another stronger hand to form a force of thunder.
The experience of guarding a city together is bound to become the common memories of this generation. In the darkest moment, we are not waiting for hope, but everyone in Wuhan is looking for hope as much as possible.
News reports during the epidemic not only convey key information about the eye of the storm to the outside world, answer questions and answer questions, but also record history, providing important evidence for latecomers to look back on the past.
Especially when China is facing a severe international situation, the truth that is not far away from us is even more precious. Recalling these contents is not only a review of the past, but also an understanding of the new.