CCP officials admit that “the new crown has not disappeared”. The picture shows that during the outbreak of the epidemic on December 22, 2022, a crematorium in Chongqing was processing remains. (Noel Celis/AFP)
[The Epoch Times, March 22, 2023](Comprehensive report by Epoch Times reporter Li Yun) Recently, fever clinics in hospitals have been overcrowded in many places in China. CCP officials admitted that “the new crown has not disappeared.” Shanghai epidemic prevention expert Zhang Wenhong talked about how to deal with the next wave of epidemics.
According to the latest CCP virus (COVID-19) epidemic situation released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, since March 3, the number of positive nucleic acid tests for the CCP virus has fluctuated and declined, with more than 4,000 positives reported every day.
On March 22, “more than 4,000 people who are positive for nucleic acid every day” appeared on Weibo hot searches, causing netizens to question.
“Who is still full of nucleic acid tests now?” “Didn’t the new crown change its name? Isn’t it an accidental nucleic acid test?” There are quite a few circles of friends with influenza A and high fever of 38-40°C.”
Since late February, fever clinics in hospitals in many places in China have been crowded again, and there are long queues every day. The CCP declared that “flu” broke out, but because the symptoms and drugs were the same as those of the new crown, people questioned the name change of the new crown.
On March 22, Liu Jue, a member of the National Novel Coronavirus Expert Group of the National Health and Medical Commission of the Communist Party of China and a researcher at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Peking University School of Public Health, told the Health Times: “The new crown has not disappeared, it is only in a low-level epidemic state. .”
According to the report, recently, netizens from Shanghai, Beijing, Shandong, Anhui and many other places claimed to be infected with the new crown. A Beijing resident said he was recruited again in March.
On March 21, Zhang Wenhong, director of the Infectious Diseases Department of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, talked about how to deal with the next wave of epidemics at an annual economic conference held in Shanghai.
He said that for the next wave of the epidemic, the current work is detection and treatment, which will be relatively simple compared to the previous wave of the pandemic. More importantly, prepare for the normalization of future pandemics.
He believes that the new crown will transform into an endemic epidemic in the future. He explained that the new crown has become more and more similar to the familiar coronavirus. If it enters a normalized epidemic, it will have peaks in stages. At present, the proportion of new crowns detected in influenza-like populations in China is about 5‰-10‰.
Zhang Wenhong also said in an interview with the media on March 4 that from a global perspective, all countries that have experienced the first round of epidemics infected by Omicron have records of the second round of epidemics, but the first round of epidemics in each country The peak heights and impacts of the second round of epidemics are different.
Regarding the second round of the epidemic, he said that the antibodies acquired by the infected people in the last round will gradually decline after 5 or 6 months, and the next round of the epidemic will not be as uniform as the first round. On the whole, China is making continuous preparations for the subsequent epidemic.
Patients infected with 2 mutant strains appear in China
On March 17, the CCP notified for the first time that a new subtype of Omicron was found, and a patient in the Third Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University was detected to be infected with two mutant strains of Omicron, triggering public concerns about a new round of epidemics .
Lin Xiaoxu, an American virus expert, told NTDTV on the 19th that it is not surprising that one person is infected with two types of viruses. He used such a case as an example. It’s not a question of government responsibility, it’s just that the virus has gotten more complicated.”
After the CCP canceled the epidemic prevention and control without warning or preparation in December last year, the epidemic broke out in China, hospitals across the country were overcrowded, and there were long queues at funeral parlors and crematoria.
Lin Xiaoxu said that such a powerful new crown will not completely disappear without a trace, not to mention that it will still spread in a certain range when it catches up with the peak flow of people during the Chinese New Year, and there should be another wave after a while. In order to boost the economy, the CCP will also conceal the epidemic.
Responsible editor: Zhou Yiqian#