In terms of prevention and treatment, Gu Xiaohong believes that we should pay attention to the cooperation between Chinese and Western medicine, and the idea of prevention should also be changed from passive detection to active prevention. In the case of mild symptoms, you can take traditional Chinese medicine decoction or commonly used Chinese patent medicine for family treatment. If you have symptoms such as fever, cough, chest tightness and chest pain, you should go to the hospital in time.
Gu Xiaohong: The virus mutated into another disease.
COVID-19 should be renamed COVID-19 Infectious Diseases.
According to the report of Beijing Daily on February 7th, 65438, Gu Xiaohong is secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, director of the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine Diseases of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, chairman of the Chinese Medicine Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, vice president of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association and chairman of the Infection Branch of the Chinese Medicine Association. She is also an expert in the scientific research group of joint prevention and control mechanism in COVID-19, the State Council.
"In fact, when COVID-19 20 19 appeared at the end of the year, it was not very accurate to use the word' pneumonia'. Because quite a few people don't get pneumonia, it may also cause liver function and kidney function damage. After these three years, from the expert's point of view, the virus has mutated into another disease, rarely causing lung infection, mainly infecting the upper respiratory tract, but at the same time it is extremely contagious, so we call it COVID-19 infectious disease. " Gu Xiaohong said.
The mutant strain of Omicron in COVID-19 has a strong spreading ability, and the R0 value exceeds 10, which means that an infected person can infect more than 10 people in natural state. At present, the R0 value of BF.7 subbranch of Omicron, which is popular in Beijing, can be as high as 18.6. With the increasing number of cases, citizens are facing the risk of infection.
"At present, all localities are actively interpreting and implementing Article 20 and the ninth edition of the prevention and control plan, and some policies are being adjusted. How to face COVID-19 is not only a health problem. The Infectious Diseases Branch of Chinese Medicine Association has reached a consensus that COVID-19 should be changed to COVID-19 infectious diseases. The reason why it is not called' COVID-19 Infectious Disease' is to emphasize its strong infectivity. " Gu Xiaohong said that at present, some experts in Guangdong have proposed to call the new crown pneumonia virus a cold, but the "cold" has not emphasized infectivity. The naming of infectious diseases helps to remind people to take preventive measures, because people with basic diseases should also pay attention to prevent them from developing into serious diseases after infection.
Gu Xiaohong believes that at present, in the face of Omicron, the cooperation between Chinese and Western medicine should be the focus, and more attention should be paid in the future. The idea of prevention should be changed from passive detection to active prevention.