(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Visiting Shijiazhuang Epidemic Traffickers: Virus Trackers in a Race against Time
China News Service, Shijiazhuang, January 14th. Title: Visiting Shijiazhuang Epidemic Traffickers: Virus Trackers in a Race against Time
Author Luda Li Qian Chen Hao
The office of more than 20 square meters is often rushed in and out of staff.
Seven or eight analysts sitting at their desks stared at the computer screen in front of them, densely packed with information from close contacts.
Liu Li, deputy director of the Shijiazhuang City Center for Disease Control and Prevention (hereinafter referred to as Shijiazhuang City Center for Disease Control and Prevention), had a trembling voice due to long-term calls to the flow transfer and insufficient rest time.
Flow adjustment work is a race against the virus and is an important part of the entire epidemic prevention and control work.
Epidemiological investigators are responsible for tracing each confirmed case or asymptomatic infection, checking the patient's trajectory before the onset of illness, and identifying people or things that the patient may come into contact with in order to isolate them as soon as possible, thereby blocking the spread of the epidemic.
When the reporter visited the Shijiazhuang Center for Disease Control and Prevention on the 13th, the reporter learned that since the first confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia in this round of the epidemic was discovered in Shijiazhuang on January 2, Liu Li and many of the team members had not returned for 11 days. At home, stand by 24 hours a day, sleep up to 4 hours a day.
Even during the interview, Liu Li still kept his eyes on the computer screen.
It is reported that on the afternoon of the 2nd, Shijiazhuang City Center for Disease Control received a report from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University: A patient with a new coronary pneumonia nucleic acid test was initially positive.
On the same day, the Shijiazhuang City Center for Disease Control and Prevention immediately sent two teams, one team to the hospital, and the other to Xiaoguozhuang Village, Zengcun Town, Gaocheng District.
The two teams conducted investigations, traceability, and close investigations respectively.
According to Zhang Shiyong, director of the Shijiazhuang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, after he saw the patient at the hospital on the 2nd, the patient was more cooperative. However, due to the chest tightness and the sequelae of cerebral infarction, he spoke and reacted quickly. All are affected, thus affecting the progress and effect of the flow adjustment.
On the same day, Zhang Shiyong and five colleagues participated in the patient's circulation, which took about two to three hours.
According to Zhang Shiyong, in addition to continuously receiving the list of confirmed cases and nucleic acid-positive persons pushed by the system during the day, the flow adjustment team is another peak time for their work every night, especially after 22:00 to 4 or 5 a.m. the next morning.
According to reports, the list of circulated targets comes from the infectious disease network direct reporting system and testing agencies.
After receiving the list, the flow transfer team will immediately arrange for professionals to carry out work in two ways, telephone flow and face-to-face flow based on the specific circumstances of the case.
On January 4, they organized more than 20 groups of transfer team members to rush to Xiaoguozhuang Village to conduct face-to-face transfer of confirmed cases and asymptomatic infections in the whole village.
Because many flow adjustments are performed in the second half of the night, many diagnosed patients refuse to answer the phone, and some are under great pressure, poor mood, do not cooperate with flow adjustments, and even more patients deliberately avoid travel trajectories, all of which bring challenges to flow adjustment work .
In order to complete the flow adjustment efficiently and accurately, without missing a close contact, each flow team member communicates patiently.
It is reported that with the participation of the transfer team members from all over the country, there are currently more than 100 transfer team members in the Shijiazhuang CDC.
Today, "'Case 0'has not been found, everyone's psychological pressure is still very great. But our circulation work will continue to deepen, let alone clues." Zhang Shiyong said.
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