China News Service, Guangzhou, December 19th, title: Zhong Nanshan: Concerned about the "environmental transmission" of the new crown virus
Author Cai Minjie
Zhong Nanshan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, attended the 2020 Golden Mile Medical Academic Committee Symposium held in Guangzhou on the 19th, and talked about the "environmental transmission of the new crown virus" and the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area scientific research cooperation" and other topics.
Zhong Nanshan attended the 2020 Golden Mile Medical Academic Committee Symposium in Guangzhou.
Photo by Cai Minjie
Talking about the new crown virus: a new topic of "environmental transmission" appears
Zhong Nanshan said that now, a topic worthy of attention has emerged in the study of the new coronavirus, which is "environmental transmission".
"What kind of situation will be infected, how much concentration of the virus in the environment will be infected, and how long can the new coronavirus survive? This requires people in our industry to find out its laws."
In addition, now in the autumn and winter, the virus detection is required to be faster.
Zhong Nanshan said that autumn and winter are also high seasons for influenza, and it is necessary to quickly detect and distinguish influenza viruses from new coronaviruses.
Talking about new technology: data-driven medical development
"We have all seen that big data played a very important role in the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia, providing a scientific basis for the government to make correct decisions and accurately implement policies; in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, a forward-looking research model was established to monitor and analyze the epidemic. It plays a supporting role in virus traceability, prevention, control and treatment, and resource deployment. It also provides strong support for new coronavirus structural analysis, vaccine and drug research and development." Zhong Nanshan said that at the beginning of the epidemic, his team analyzed more than 1,000 people The situation of patients with new coronary pneumonia and understanding of the incubation period and characteristics of the new coronavirus have proved to be very useful in practice.
"We have also used artificial intelligence analysis of nearly 1 million CTs to help doctors diagnose new coronary pneumonia, clearly predict the method of severely ill patients, and can take some better medical methods to prevent it in time." Zhong Nanshan said.
Zhong Nanshan said, how do these data become alive?
It is necessary to combine clinical practice to understand the meaning behind the data.
"What kind of disease is this? What is the condition of this patient? If you use these big data, then you can get a lot of very valuable things."
On scientific research in the Greater Bay Area: Need to transform results
In this academic committee seminar, there are also scholars from Hong Kong and Macau, such as Lu Jian, Vice President of City University of Hong Kong and Lu Yuming, Academician of the Royal Society.
"Now we find that there are many research papers published in the scientific research community, but none of them have entered the stage of transformation. Then we can further accelerate the process of technological innovation and achievement transformation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area." Zhong Nanshan said, University of Macau and Macau University of Science and Technology They all have good basic research data. I hope to combine clinical transformations and not stop at the publication of papers. At the same time, I hope to use the advantages of one country, two systems to shorten and simplify the approval process of Chinese medicine and diagnostic reagents by using Macau as a pilot. To use in the Greater Bay Area. (Finish)