Chinanews.com, December 20th. The Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on the 20th to introduce the relevant situation of medical services for key groups.
Wang Guiqiang, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking University First Hospital, said at the meeting that although Omicron is highly contagious, most of the infection is self-limited, and the pathogenicity or severity is relatively low, but we do not advocate or recommend it. deliberately to infect.
A reporter asked a question at the meeting: Recently, with the increase of positive cases, there has been a saying "good morning, good morning sun". What do experts think of this saying?
Is there a regularity in the time of infection with the new coronavirus?
In this regard, Wang Guiqiang said that first of all, the pathogenicity of Omicron has been significantly reduced, but some patients still have clinical symptoms after infection, including fever, muscle and joint pain, and sore throat, which will seriously affect the quality of life and work fine.
Although Omicron is currently highly contagious and the pressure of prevention and control is great, we still hope that the epidemic will not break out in a short period of time, because once a large number of patients appear in a short period of time, it will seriously affect the entire social order and people's livelihood.
At the same time, it will also cause huge pressure or even a run on medical institutions, affecting the treatment of daily emergency and critically ill patients by medical institutions.
Although Omicron is highly contagious, most of the infection is self-limited, and the pathogenicity or severity is relatively low, but we do not advocate or recommend intentional infection.
Wang Guiqiang emphasized that the elderly and those with underlying diseases, especially those who have not been vaccinated, must take good protection and not be infected during the first round of epidemic peaks.
During this epidemic peak infection, there may be problems of uneven distribution of medical resources or run-out, resulting in the failure of timely and effective treatment for critically ill patients. It is still hoped that these elderly people will take good protection, including elderly people in nursing homes and those who are bedridden at home with underlying diseases. Elderly people, everyone should pay special attention to avoid infection.
Those who have not been vaccinated at the same time must continue to be vaccinated.
Wang Guiqiang also said, "In the current stage of rapid growth in the first round of the epidemic, as time goes by, the number of infected people increases, and the rapid rise will slow down. This is a general rule. However, after a period of time, with the large-scale Social activities, including Spring Festival travel or various social activities, may have a new round of epidemics. The emergence of waves of this epidemic may eventually form a certain herd immunity barrier, and the incidence rate will drop significantly. We hope that the epidemic will No major outbreaks, that's our main recommendation right now."