[SBS Special] Stop the Pandemic-Corona 19 At the Front Line ①

● World-renowned corona19, how to fight

Corona, which is terrorizing the world with its explosive contagion19. On the 12th, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic (a global pandemic), the highest risk level in the epidemic alert phase. The war with the new virus that started in China has now emerged as a global problem. In this situation, attention is focused on Korea. In particular, Daegu, which was declared as a special disaster area due to more than 70% of total domestic infections, is the largest battlefield that has been struggling with Corona 19 since the pandemic.

How are people fighting on the front lines of a virus outbreak?

● Fight against viruses you've never seen before

"I have never seen pneumonia progress like this. It's going to the intensive care unit in an instant."
-Daegu Corona 19 Medical Staff

The Daegu Corona 19 intensive care unit is completely isolated from the outside. In the negative pressure ward, where the most critical patients are gathered, dozens of patients unable to self-breath are fighting the virus, relying on the ventilator. It took only a few days for them to go to the intensive care unit after they were confirmed corona. The patient's lungs, who had a mild cough, or had no symptoms at all, were quickly destroyed and developed into severe pneumonia. Medical staff say no pneumonia has ever progressed so fast. Currently, there is little information about treatments or symptoms for Corona 19. Will medical staff find a way to fight the new virus?

● What is the secret of the lowest fatality rate?

To prevent the spread of highly contagious diseases like Corona19, rapid diagnosis is necessary for effective treatment. After all, it is a fight against time. Cars line up all day at the entrance of the corona base hospital in Daegu, where many battles are fought throughout the day. It is the drive-through inspection station that the world is attracting the most attention. Here, the inspection time for a single person is only 10 minutes.

More than 400 tests per day are possible. In the other hospital's situation room, there are doctors who call all day, like a call center. It is to check the condition of confirmed patients in self-containment, to suggest appropriate treatment, and to manage the psychological condition of patients who are anxious.

In Korea, a large number of corona diagnoses have occurred, but it has the lowest fatality rate in the world. The reason is that the system to quickly select and manage corona was created, and people and volunteers who could systematically operate it gathered in Daegu.

A retired doctor who visited Daegu to share his experience of fighting MERS. Countless people are gathering to help Daegu and the Republic of Korea, including new nurses who grew up in Spain and helped support their father's country, and hundreds of firefighters from across the country.

● Is corona war and humanity's counterattack possible?

Choi Eun-young, a professor of respiratory medicine who protects the intensive care unit, answers the phone. A call to a grandfather in his 60s who was treated with a ventilator. After receiving intensive care in the intensive care unit, the condition improved, he moved to the general hospital room and called for appreciation. Corona19, There is no medicine to cure, but that didn't mean we couldn't overcome it.

The fierce fighting of those who watched from the nearest place, such as the emergency room, quarantine ward, and intensive care unit! Indeed, can victory be continued?

In <SBS Special>, I heard stories of people who are fighting the virus to the end.

(SBS New Media Department)

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