Academician Wang Chen: The epidemic will not disappear suddenly, the future risk is still very big

"Now it looks like the outbreak is not going away, the risks for the future are still high, but it's really hard to predict exactly what the virus and the outbreak will look like next."
"Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese Medicine
Wang Chen, President of the Beijing Concord Medical College, said in a speech at the
2020 graduation ceremony of the Concord Medical College in Beijing on June 30.
Chinese Medical
was established in 1956. The Beijing Concord Medical College was established in 1917. The Chinese Medical
and the Beijing Concord Medical College have been implementing a system of institution-to-university management since 1957. As China's top medical research institutions and the highest medical education institutions, colleges and universities since its inception has always led the development of medical science and technology education in China and safeguard people's health as its own responsibility, for the development of China's medical health and health has made an important contribution.
In the
of the outbreak of new crown pneumonia, Wang Chen creatively put forward the key strategy, the establishment of square cabin hospital, with rapid and effective measures to isolate the source of infection, to avoid more people infected, to rebuild an effective medical system, so that patients get treatment, to achieve the "receiving, should be cured" strategic intent, Wuhan anti-epidemic since then there has been a strategic turning point.
, Wang Chen pointed out that we are facing a new type of coronavirus in 2019, known in virology as SARS Coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2). At first glance, the "recklessness" of SARS coronavirus 1, a very "smart" and even "intelligent" virus, has been shown to have a series of characteristics suitable for its own survival and development. Some virologists call it the "perfect level" virus.
" when it invades the new host of mankind, in order to adapt to the new host environment, will accelerate the variation, accelerate evolution, its biological characteristics, including propagation and pathogenicity, different strains will derive different conditions, coupled with different strains encountered by human individual characteristics, social interventions, scientific and technological interventions are very different, which will be derived, arranged and combined with countless results. The relatively stable characteristics of the new coronavirus after the evolution of the initial human variant are the essential factors that determine the outbreak. Wang Chen said, "Now it seems that the outbreak will not disappear, the future risk is still very high, but we really difficult to accurately predict the virus and the next step of the outbreak." What will happen to this year's autumn/winter festival? Next winter and spring, will it be pandemic with the flu at the same time? Could there be a new type of influenza that is generally immune to humans? If two infectious diseases are in trouble at the same time, are we human beings ready? Can three infectious diseases be endemic at the same time? Although this possibility is smaller and much smaller, it cannot theoretically be said that it does not exist. On the outbreak, do not guess, do not speculate, can not be hard to measure, dare not delusion, do not engage in bet-style prediction. What we can do is never underestimate the complexity of the outbreak, nor be intimidated by it, relying on common medical knowledge of infectious diseases, based on our new discoveries of the virus and disease and new scientific and reliable technical methods developed to deal with it. In the presence of a certain epidemic, how to grasp the prevention and control and production of life? How to achieve greater social, national and human benefits at a smaller social cost? It is the responsibility of medicine to help find such a balance. Wang
said that the outbreak of neo-crown pneumonia has changed the world situation and international pattern, and will also have a profound impact on the future thinking methods and behavior patterns of human beings. The outbreak has become the most prominent factor in the past six months, the present, and probably the future. This virus, this disease we are far from understanding, in the future we can not be all infectious diseases are very clear, there will always be new problems. In the face of the endless contradictions and laws of nature, human scientific discoveries and technological creation are shallow, especially in the field of medicine, we do not know "the sky is thick", know that their own shallowness is relatively high wisdom. So real medical professionals know where medicine can and can't be, what is a natural course of disease, what is an individual difference, what is social intervention, and what is the power of science and technology.
" outbreak highlights the importance of medicine in human survival and development. The position of medicine and medicine in China is far from high enough, and its role is far from great enough. The medical and medical professions should do more to take on the mission and responsibility of developing society and caring for humanity. Wang Chen said.