"This is a foolish move!" Fan Wubing heard that Singapore had closed its immigration channels, and then he thought about it and understood the truth.

It seems feasible to use people who have urgent needs to immigrate pressure on the domestic government, but it is actually a very stupid approach. You must know that the Celestial Empire has its own rules. If Singapore lowers its status and senior figures come to take the blame in person, or there are still discussions on this matter.

However, if you want to fight the central government with a threat, isn’t it because the birthday boy always eats arsenic and is impatient to live?

Therefore, Fan Wubing can be sure that he doesn't have to see him. This time, the senior management must be cold to Singapore's visit. It's not that there is any other reason. It's just that this reason is not respecting the leader enough, which is enough for them to drink a pot.

The SARS epidemic continues to rage, and April 20 is a milestone day that rewrites China's history of fighting SARS.

On the afternoon of the same day, at a live press conference introducing the latest epidemic and prevention and control of atypical pneumonia in mainland China, the appearance of the Deputy Minister of Health made sensitive people realize what.

At this time, the capital city had already become turbulent after a long period of unawareness. The rumors spread various statements and speculations about SARS in this city with a population of 13 million through the Internet and mobile phone text messages.

Sure enough, the number of confirmed cases in Beijing suddenly increased from 37 overnight to 339, and the epidemic, which was announced once every five days, was changed to being announced once a day. Then, there were "unprecedented decisive measures" and "a shocking education deep in the soul" of officials at all levels, and two senior ministerial officials were dismissed.

The strong intervention of the central government made people suddenly realize the "enemy" they face.

SARS, known as Atypical pneumonia in mainland China, is the official name of the World Health Organization for "severe acute respiratory syndrome". The full English name is SevereAcute Respiratory Syndrome. The WHO infectious disease expert Carlo Urbani, who was the first to name it, died of the line of infection due to tracking and researching SARS.

The World Health Organization sounded the SARS global alarm for the first time on March 12, and officially issued a travel warning on April 2. Thirteen laboratories around the world joined forces to study the culprit of SARS and determined the pathogen as a new coronavirus in just eight days. When looking for HIV, the whole world spent three years.

Under the microscope, the deadly SARS virus has the beauty of the crown, and it is still unknown where it comes from and what route it is transmitted through.

As Vice Premier Wu, who was appointed to serve as Minister of Health in the face of danger, said, in such a globalization era where information is highly shared, the transparency of major epidemics will only play the opposite role.

Rumors that reached its peak around April 20 proved this. Around April 17, the gossip spread by mobile phone text messages were overwhelming, with locations and numbers so accurate that it was unquestionable. In fact, the buildings listed on the gossip were operating as usual and were not closed or quarantined.

The sudden increase in the epidemic figure of ten times has caused the city that was just beginning to be uneasy to lose balance overnight. Various rumors are flying all over the sky, migrant workers and college students leave Beijing one after another. The scene of a rush to buy in Guangdong appeared again on the streets of Beijing two months ago. The white radish, which was still 80 cents per pound, suddenly rose to three yuan because it is said that boiling white radish water can prevent SARS.

Of course, it is not just honeysuckle, licorice, isatis root and white radish that are being snapped up.

When Fan Wubing went out in the afternoon, he wanted to buy something from the supermarket. When he approached the nearby Carrefour supermarket, he was shocked. The rows of shelves for rice and flour were already empty.

From sanitary daily necessities, health care medicines to food, the rush to purchase quickly swept across major supermarkets in just two days and quickly disappeared. Many people who once participated in the rush to purchase said that they did not have confidence in modern logistics, but were worried that the epidemic would be so serious that it would make people afraid to go out.

Panic, a virus that is more terrible than SARS, is mixed with anger at concealing the epidemic and hope for new government measures, forming a complex emotion for people during this period of time.

People associate the name of the capable female vice premier with the homophonic no-epidemic, and citizens gradually became familiar with the new face of going to Beijing to serve as acting mayor. This senior economist, who believes that people are not confident and believe it, once presided over the work of Guangdong financial in the financial crisis and was called a firefighter. When he took the initiative to break news to Chinese and foreign reporters at a press conference, when he unexpectedly sat in front of CCTV's "face-to-face" camera and expressed his confidence, and even frankly expressed his worries, people felt a fresh style and honest courage.

Starting from transparency, the public's right to know is placed equal to science and the rule of law, and is given the same powerful force. From transparency, a rational government responsible to the people who actively participate in international cooperation is reversing the initial unexpected passiveness and showing the ability to respond to the crisis to prevent natural disasters from turning into man-made disasters.

The central government has once again increased special funds, and the funds used by the central and western provinces, municipalities and county-level disease control institutions have reached 2.9 billion yuan.

From hospitals to communities, a nationwide integrated SARS epidemic reporting system and command system have been established, and this year's May Day holiday will be cancelled, the epidemic will be spread due to the flow of people, and the epidemic will be strictly prevented from spreading to rural areas. Public mechanisms such as finding passengers around SARS patients will be operated healthily through media releases news.

From cities to rural areas, various places strictly carry out self-protection to prevent the epidemic from spreading around the region. Beijing controls college students and migrant workers to return home. Shanghai sounds the orange alert and sets up a strict prevention and control network from the suburbs. Various places implement medical isolation for outsiders in the ward. It is said that due to the strict measures in Shandong Province, some people who are homesick actually try to ride a bicycle from Beijing to Shandong.

China is engaged in a city battle against SARS and a rural defense war.

In just a few days, in the country's largest infectious disease prevention and control base built in the suburbs of Beijing, Fan Investment Group and the government jointly built, 1,200 military medical staff were urgently mobilized from all over the country, and all confirmed patients were admitted here.

From April 21 to the end of April, the number of cases in Beijing increased by about 90 to 100 per day, with the highest reaching more than 150 people a day, and the epidemic showed a high incidence period.

Science is the nemesis of disease. Some people say that in this sudden disaster, the scientific community in mainland China encountered the embarrassment of doing nothing. Whether it was the determination of pathogens or the completion of whole-genome sequencing of viruses, mainland China, as the main battlefield of SARS, was unable to take the lead in publishing scientific research results.

Such a conclusion is obviously too one-sided. Passing by honor cannot erase the major progress made by mainland scientists working together to solve problems. Their firmness and persistence in truth are enough to compare with any brilliant scientific research results, and it is enough to make people who will remember it many years later and be proud of it.

At the beginning of the outbreak of SARS in Guangdong, Guangdong medical experts led by Zhong Nanshan discovered in the process of treating patients that the pathogenic source of this strange disease is different from Chlamydia and bacteria, and is more like a virus that humans have never met.

Viruses, a microorganism with a diameter of only 20 to 400 nanometers, have caused tragedies of life in human history. The earliest written infectious virus was smallpox. From the beginning of smallpox around 1,600 BC to the first time that British doctor Edward vaccinated vaccination into the human body more than 200 years ago, it claimed countless lives in the past 1,800 years.

However, at this time, the mainstream voices in the Chinese medical community were not like this. They believed that it was Chlamydia who caused SARS.

Is it chlamydia or virus? The two sounds represent two completely different treatment methods that bet on life.

Against the opposition, starting from the clinical efficacy, Zhong Nanshan and his colleagues insisted on using conventional antiviral drugs such as ribavirin for ordinary patients, using non-invasive ventilators and large doses of hormones for severe patients with increasing lung shadows.

Practice has proved that this treatment method for the virus has greatly reduced the incidence of respiratory failure and has also become the key to Guangdong's lowest SARS mortality rate in the world.

Later, many doctors involved in the rescue of SARS patients in Beijing said when talking about the successful treatment experience that without the persistence of Zhong Nanshan and others, the use of non-invasive ventilators and large-dose hormones would be unimaginable.

Of course, what is not recognized by people is the role played by traditional Chinese medicine in this prevention and control of the SARS epidemic.

Recognizing the role of traditional Chinese medicine will inevitably cause a major reshuffle in the entire health system, and uncontrollable public opinion will also cause great turmoil in the entire SARS prevention and control work. After all, the entire medical system is now constructed according to the Western medicine model. Once everyone is in a hurry to find traditional Chinese medicine treatments, the existing health and medical system will immediately suffer a heavy blow.

Moreover, the traditional Chinese medicine market will also encounter explosive market conditions, which will not be of any benefit to the construction of a calm medical and health system, nor will it be of any benefit to SARS prevention and control, which will only make the current situation even more chaotic.

However, before May Day came, news came from the gene research base of Fan's Investment Group, far away in the northeast. They had isolated the SARS virus and conducted in-depth analysis to determine the pathogen that can be found in nature - civets.
Chapter completed!