Global Lords: I Have Information System

Chapter 441: Chapter 334: Alias Quete, the Mastermind Known as Zong

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Recently, the Nanjing outbreak spread across provinces, becoming a new model of domestic transmission triggered by imported cases, worrying people across the country.

Early this morning, Zhang Wenhong, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, wrote on Weibo that in the current era of strict epidemic control and accelerated vaccination, the spread of the epidemic across multiple provinces has caused the public great anxiety about the future, which essentially stems from the great uncertainty of the future.

He also analyzed issues that concern citizens, such as the pandemic trends and vaccine efficacy.

Will the Nanjing outbreak get out of control or continue to worsen? The key lies in monitoring the next 1-2 weeks

Zhang Wenhong said that the Nanjing outbreak follows the pattern of ”spot-linear-diffuse”. Currently, if Lukou Airport is considered an outbreak point, it is spreading to various provinces and cities following the aviation routes, with most cases in other provinces being discovered during the screening of related key groups, still lining the transmission chain from Lukou Airport. Cases with no apparent source widespread community transmission have not yet been found in other provinces, indicating that the epidemic is still under control.

Zhang Wenhong said, if the next 1-2 weeks see no further occurrence of second and third-generation cases across various provinces, the epidemic scale will still be limited to Nanjing.

Currently, the main feature is the cluster infections among families related to Lukou Airport in Nanjing. There is a significant number of airport-related cluster cases in the Lukou area, but no extensive untraceable community infections have appeared in other regions of Nanjing, showing it is still before widespread community diffusion.

Nanjing has taken strict preventive measures which, if effective, can be controlled within a few weeks, in which we should have confidence.

He emphasized that the subsequent 1-2 weeks of monitoring remain crucial. If further incidents of airport-unrelated cases arise, this would signify an expanded epidemic scale necessitating more decisive measures.

At this stage, calmness is most needed, strictly adhering to preventative strategies, wearing masks, washing hands frequently, ventilating more, minimizing outings, allowing cities to slow down, gradually completing nucleic acid testing region by region, the worst times will be over.

Vaccinations cannot entirely control the pandemic but can prevent resource shortages

Zhang Wenhong said, post-vaccine infections still occur, as seen in Nanjing this time and previously in Guangzhou, which have garnered attention. However, the number of infections could be higher without vaccination.

In terms of vaccine function, real-world prevention data is ultimately required. This holds true internationally and domestically.

Currently, the vaccination rate in England and Israel is near 70%. After reopening, infection rates have notably risen, but such an increase has not strained medical resources, with the disease’s mortality rate dropping from last year’s high of 18% to 0.1% over the recent week, a level approaching flu mortality.

Zhang Wenhong stated that while vaccines in the future may not fully prevent ongoing sprouting and repeated outbreaks, should the mortality rate after full reopening drop to flu levels, this can mitigate severe consequences from the virus spread. Or rather, through vaccination, the harm of ”COVID-19” can briefly reduce to seasonal flu levels by establishing herd immunity.

He noted that although humans could establish herd immunity and coexist with such vicious viruses without a vaccine, it would require decades with many costs.

As for whether Chinese vaccines are effective, a recent inactivated vaccine follow-up study in Chile, referred to as ”real-world research” in medical terms, published in the world’s most famous medical journal ”New England”, was a tough testing.

Chile evaluated the protection of Chinese inactivated vaccines during the large-scale national vaccination campaign beginning February 2 to May 1 this year. This cohort included 10.2 million people from Chile’s population. Among those who received 2 doses, the effectiveness of the Chinese inactivated vaccine in preventing COVID-19 infection was 65.9%, with a protection rate against hospitalization at 87.5% (95% CI, 86.7-88.2), ICU admission prevention at 90.3%, and death prevention at 86.3%.

The results of Chile’s vaccination campaign show that the Chinese inactivated vaccine has high efficacy in preventing severe illness, hospitalizations, and deaths from COVID-19.

If the goal is to slow transmission and reduce mortality, a certain level of protection can be assumed. However, achieving zero cases and eradicating the disease may not be currently attainable goals with the available vaccines.

These data tell us that even if everyone gets vaccinated, COVID-19 will still be prevalent, though the extent will decline and mortality can reduce. Post-reopening, infections will still occur, and in the future, all countries must confront the situation where vaccines have lowered mortality and disease transmission, yet public awareness for prevention remains critical, and the strength of national public health systems (including hospitals and disease control) is essential to ultimately coexist harmoniously with the virus.