(Fighting New Crown Pneumonia) Zhang Wenhong: Do n’t think New Crown virus is “very demon”
China News Service, Shanghai, February 28 (Reporter Li Peng) Zhang Wenhong, the leader of Shanghai New Crown Pneumonia Medical Treatment Expert Team and director of the Infection Department of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency on the 28th. Everyone can unite and take epidemic prevention and control as a very important thing, and the disease can be prevented and treated.
The first confirmed case was found in Shanghai on January 20, and the discharge rate of confirmed patients in Shanghai has reached 83%. Zhang Wenhong said that from this point of view, the disease is curable. In terms of prevention and control models, the original digital model predicted that the number of people infected in Shanghai was tens of thousands, but now there are only 337, so from this point of view, the disease is controllable.
At present, there are many different opinions about the length of the incubation period of new coronal pneumonia, the size of the transmission power, and the confirmation of the transmission route. There are also phenomena that the incubation period can spread and Fuyang recovers. Some people think that the new coronavirus is "very demon".
Zhang Wenhong said that once you get your temper clear, you won't think this is a "very demon" virus. Everyone thinks that new coronary pneumonia is terrible because they don't know the new virus.
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, Zhang Wenhong has been hiding in the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center in the suburbs most of the time. At this designated hospital in Shanghai where confirmed cases are being treated, Zhang Wenhong makes rounds every day and has been exploring the temper of the virus. He said, in fact, this is a virus of the coronavirus family, but the temper is slightly different from other coronaviruses. The symptoms of new coronary pneumonia are a bit like SARS, but they are not as heavy, and they spread like influenza. Their characteristics are somewhere between SARS and flu, which is a very "personalized coronavirus".
Zhang Wenhong believes that with the deepening of the understanding of this disease, this disease should be directly called Coronavirus Disease 2019, because it is not only pneumonia, some mild patients do not show the symptoms of pneumonia, and some severe patients are not just lung damage. There is also damage to multiple organs such as the heart, so it is a disease overall. (Finish)