(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Zhang Boli: Omicron is more contagious, and traditional Chinese medicine will play a greater role
China News Agency, Tianjin, January 11 (Reporter Zhang Daozheng) Zhang Boli, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and honorary president of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said on the 11th that this round of epidemic in Tianjin is the first time to experience the new crown pneumonia infected by the Omicron virus. Look, it is more secretive and more disseminated; based on the experience of early treatment, traditional Chinese medicine treatment will play a greater role in this round of treatment.
On the afternoon of the same day, Tianjin held the 165th press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia. Zhang Boli was invited to attend. He said, "The reason why Omicron is highly concealed is that the patient's symptoms are relatively mild, and some people do not. Symptoms, Tianjin is at least the third generation as soon as it is discovered; it is said that the transmission is stronger because one person has already infected more than a dozen people, and the infection is very fast."
Academician Zhang Boli said that the symptoms of the current round of the epidemic in Tianjin are relatively mild, with 30% asymptomatic, half of the patients with mild symptoms, and some of the common type with few severe cases.
This is basically the same rule in both children and adults.
He specially mentioned that traditional Chinese medicine will play a greater role in the treatment of Omicron strain infection, which is based on the experience of previous treatment (as learned), especially overseas treatment has achieved better results , the symptoms improved significantly, especially the symptoms of fever, sore throat and cough.
In addition, its time of turning negative is relatively fast, the recovery of yang is relatively small, and the rate of turning severe is relatively low, so this shows that the curative effect reflected in the previous traditional Chinese medicine treatment is still outstanding this time, and the therapeutic effect of traditional Chinese medicine is still relatively good.
At the press conference, Zhang Boli pointed out that this time Omicron has more mutations, with 32 mutation points, and some escape mutation points also appeared. Therefore, the protective effect of the vaccine on it is declining.
However, the overall condition was relatively mild this time, with fewer severe cases, which is also a reflection of the protective effect of the vaccine.
"Therefore, I still remind everyone to get vaccinated as much as possible." (End)