Will there be a secondary outbreak in China? Zhong NanShan Response

  On the morning of march 27, Beijing time, ZhongNanshan, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert in respiratory medicine, held a video link with experts fromHarvard University medical school and the United States to discuss the situation related to the diagnosis and treatment of new crown pneumonia. After the video connection, CCTV News conducted an exclusive interview with academician ZhongNanshan.

According to Zhong , U.S. experts are particularly concerned about the diagnosis of cases, and hundreds of doctors want to join the connection when they learnt that he wants to introduce the situation in China against the epidemic. Earlier, his team worked with Harvard Medical School to set up a research team on new coronavirus pneumonia to work together on pathogenic mechanisms, epidemiological studies and so on. This is hisfifth meeting with the U.S.

Zhong   shared the experience of China in rapid epidemic control: early detection, early reporting, early isolationand early treatment.

As for how U.S. experts are particularly concerned about how to quickly control the outbreak of new crown pneumonia,Zhong said there are two strategies to control the epidemic, one is to suppress, the other is to delay. China chose a strategy of repression to control the epidemic in the short term. As itcould be seen, patients are still increasing during the two weeks, but also reached a peak in two weeks, and returned to the original situation after two weeks. Chinese communities also have strong group control measures, specifically four "early ": early detection, early reporting, early isolation, early treatment, which played a very important role.

Zhong Nanshan: The "epicenter" of the epidemic may have moved to the United States
    Zhong Nnanshan said that some countries have also taken corresponding action measures after learning, and now the number of infected people in Italy and Germany has fallen, but other regions are still growing, especially in the United States, rising very quickly. The number of people diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia in the United States now exceeds that in China, reaching more than 82,000. It is possible that the epicenter has moved to the United States.

Zhong Nanshan: Special attention should be paid to asymptomatic close contacts

China hasattached great importance to how to control the epidemic. Zhong Nanshan emphasizes not only the symptomatic people, but also the asymptomatic close contacts of the confirmed patients.
    Zhong NanShan: No second wave peak is expected
   Zhong Nanshan also said that the second wave is not expected to peak, because now under the group control measures, it is difficult to have a large outbreak, provided that we should actively prevent and control, to maintain vigilance. According to the mechanism of group prevention and control, the focus of prevention and control now, the number of foreign importers has reached hundreds, especially the foreign importers are from the "first wave of epidemic countries ", infectious is very strong, so it is very right to actively diagnose and isolate this practice.
    Zhong Nanshan: Measuresare expected to work in Apirl if the whole world take positive actions.

For some foreign areas of the current "city closure" measures, zhong nanshan response ," city closure "does not mean to solve the problem, after the city, the city should also have good personal protection, everyone should also abide by the principle of protection, if strict implementation of measures, the next week european cases will be expected to reach a peak, the global epidemic in april is expected to see results.

  Zhong Nanshan: China is summing up its experience in drug therapy
     In addition, in response to drug treatment problems, Zhong Nanshan said, so far has not found special drugs. China has begun to traditional Chinese medicine, western medicine; chloroquine, recovery period plasma, hydrogen and oxygen mixture inhalation, and so on, the final summary, I believe that through experience and summary, can find a solution to share with the world.