Chinese life under the shroud of the Coronavirus
At the end of 2020, as the New Year is approaching, the migrant workers are looking forward to the reunion of their wives and children, and the college students are looking forward to returning to their parents' arms for a happy New Year.
The Spring Festival is a very important festival in China as thanksgiving festival in US, and it is 7-days holiday expected by Chinese people. The whole family member will return home at the same time. There is a saying that "whether you have money or no money, go home for the New Year Festival".
Just as the whole country was filled with festive happiness, an unprecedented plague began to sweep the earth, and the whole country entered a three-year-long unique day.
Hundreds of funny and unbelievable stories happen under the epidemic.
Let's go back to the beginning time.
Chapter one Wuhan city in China fired the first shot
On December 2019, Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Wuhan Central Hospital Houhu District, Wuhan Red Cross Hospital, etc. successively admitted and treated some patients with pneumonia of unknown pneumonia.
On December 27, Zhang Jixian, director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, reported to the hospital that he had received 3 patients with pneumonia of unknown pneumonia. The hospital reported the situation to the Wuhan Hanjiang District Center for Disease Control and Prevention. On the same day, the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention arranged for epidemiological investigation and testing of these three patients.
On December 29, Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine reported four more cases of pneumonia of unknown origin from the Huanan Seafood Market. The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission organized an expert team to conduct an investigation and transferred the relevant patients to Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital on evening.
On December 30, with considering the discovery of similar cases in many hospitals across the city, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission issued the departmental document "Urgent Notice on Reporting the Treatment of Unexplained Pneumonia" in the system at 15:10 and 18:50 on December 30, respectively. The "Emergency Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Treatment of Unexplained Pneumonia" requires that the treatment of unknown pneumonia be done well, and a comprehensive search and retrospective investigation of pneumonia cases related to the South China Seafood Market be carried out. The two notices were uploaded to the Internet at 15:22 and 19:00 respectively.
Wuhan Municipal Health Commission
Urgent Notice on Reporting the Treatment of unknown Pneumonia
All relevant medical institutions:
According to the emergency notification from superiors, patients with unknown pneumonia have appeared in the Huanan Seafood Market in our city recently.
In order to prepare for the response, all units are requested to immediately check and count unknown pneumonia patients with similar symptoms that have been treated in the past week.
Please Send the statistical table (stamped scanned copy) to the mailbox of the Municipal Health and Health
Commission before 4pm today afternoon.
Contact: Mr.Mao Bing 85692893 Mrs.Li Ying 85690943
Email: whsyzo@126.com
Attachment: Relevant Information Statistics Sheet
Wuhan Municipal Health Commission
2020.12.30
Emergency Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Treatment of unknown Pneumonia
All relevant medical institutions:
According to the emergency notification from superiors, medical institutions in our city have successively appeared unknown pneumonia patients. In order to effectively do a good job in the medical treatment of such patients, and effectively protect the health and safety of the people, the relevant work requirements for the treatment of patients with similar symptom are as follows:
1. Strengthen responsible leadership
Every hospital at all levels should improve their sense of responsibility, attach great importance to relevant medical work, clarify responsible leadership, determine leading departments, set up working groups, coordinate resources, organize expert groups, and properly deploy work to ensure the orderly development of diagnosis and treatment.
2. Standardize medical treatment
All medical institutions should strengthen outpatient management, strictly implement the responsibility system for the first doctor, and actively mobilize patients with pneumonia of unknown cause to treat them on the spot. It is necessary to strengthen the multi-disciplinary professional strength of the respiratory department, infectious disease department, and critical care medicine department in a targeted manner, unblock the green channel, effectively connect the outpatient department and the emergency department, improve the emergency plan for medical treatment, strengthen the training of medical personnel, and reasonably standardize the treatment. , to strengthen the prevention and control of infection in hospitals.
3. Strict information reporting
All medical institutions should track and count the treatment quantity in time, and report relevant information to the disease control department as required, and report it to the Wuhan Municipal Health and Health Commission at the same time, and report major matters immediately.
No unit or individual may release treatment information without authorization.
Wuhan Municipal Health Commission
2020.12.30
On December 31, the official Weibo account of the People’s Daily stated that the pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan cannot be determined to be SARS. On the afternoon of the same day, the Wuhan Municipal Health and Health Commission issued the "Notice on the Current Pneumonia Epidemic in Our City", which made it clear that some of the recent cases of pneumonia received by some medical institutions were related to the South china seafood market. So far, 27 cases have been found, of which 7 are in serious condition, the remaining cases are stable and controllable, and 2 cases have improved and are scheduled to be discharged in the near future. The clinical manifestations of the cases were mainly fever, and a few patients had difficulty breathing, and chest X-ray showed infiltrative lesions in both lungs. At present, all cases have been isolated and treated, the follow-up investigation and medical observation of close contacts are in progress, and the hygienic investigation and environmental sanitation disposal of south china Seafood market are in progress.
Wuhan City organized clinical medicine, epidemiology, and virology experts from Tongji Hospital, Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan Infectious Disease Hospital, and Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct consultations, epidemiological investigation, preliminary laboratory testing and other aspects of the analysis that the above cases are viral pneumonia. So far, the investigation has not found obvious human-to-human infection, and no medical staff infection has been found. The detection of the pathogen and the investigation of the cause of infection are currently underway. According to a CCTV news report, an expert group from the National Health Commission has arrived in Wuhan and is conducting relevant testing and verification work.
Huanan seafood market is located in the downtown area of Wuhan city, close to the second ring Road, opposite Huanan glasses wholesale market, and only one kilometer away from Hankou railway station. It is understood that the market is an old market that has been in business for many years and is rumored to be demolished. It is in a north-south direction. The shops are distributed on the east and west sides. The west area is mostly frozen seafood, and the east area is the seasoning area. The hotel business is the main business here, which is equivalent to the distribution center of the local hotel. Some people start to deliver goods at night, and most of them are individual tourists during the day.
Some netizens said that the Huanan seafood market was "really messy and messy", "the shop has been closed at night, but you can smell the super stinky smell from a distance." Another person revealed, "The South China Seafood Market sells seafood on the surface, but in fact, cats and dogs, live snakes and live turtles, all kinds of pheasants and marmots are sold, as well as signboards such as sika deer and monkeys."