TCM Gaoyuan

Chapter 411 Incoming
He Fang said on the other end of the phone: "Yes, this pneumonia is very strange and difficult to treat. Western medicine is currently unable to determine what the pathogen is. It is reported as pneumonia caused by atypical pathogens. The key is that this thing is somewhat contagious. It’s terrible, hundreds of medical staff have been infected.”

"How much?" Gao Yuan stood up in shock.

He Fangdao: "About 100."

Gao Yuan hurriedly asked: "How many patients are there?"

He Fang replied: "It should be 200."

Gao Yuan asked: "Does this mean that every two patients can infect one medical staff on average?"

He Fangdao: "On average, it is like this, but now the patients are concentrated, so the medical staff are also infected. Before the Chinese New Year, a hospital in Zhongshan infected dozens of medical staff. Now there is a lot of messy news outside. I don’t know who said white vinegar and isatis root can prevent this strange disease, but everyone is grabbing these two things.”

As a veteran who has been fighting on the front line of preventing and treating infectious diseases since the 50s, Gao Yuan was keenly aware of the danger. He asked again: "How is the treatment going? Is it easy to treat?"

He Fang replied: "It's not very ideal. Currently, only more than 50 patients have been discharged. There have been deaths. Five people have died so far. There have been no deaths among medical staff. Because the pathogen cannot be found, the antibiotic treatment effect is very poor. It is estimated that Viral infection, so I am already taking hormones..."

Gao Yuan interrupted: "What about Chinese medicine? How does Chinese medicine identify syndromes and what are the treatment results?"

He Fang said with a hint of embarrassment: "This is classified as an infectious disease, so...that's why Chinese medicine was not involved."

Gao Yuan was speechless for a while. He had been running around in the past few years, so he knew the current situation of traditional Chinese medicine very well.Although he has been raising his arms and shouting, the real changes he can bring are still very small. The mainstream of society still generally believes that traditional Chinese medicine can only be active in the field of health care. Some difficult or serious diseases may require traditional Chinese medicine doctors to be consulted, but these infectious diseases Chinese medicine will not be allowed to intervene at all.

Gao Yuan scolded: "What a fool. I won't let you get treatment, why can't you go and see it? Or are you afraid of being infected and don't dare to go in?"

He Fangdao: "Those are isolation wards and are generally not allowed to enter. A small role like me cannot enter, but experts in traditional Chinese medicine visited the patients and I have read their notes, so I want to ask you for advice. "

"Say." Gao Yuan responded quickly.

He Fang looked at the notes he copied and said: "The patient's first symptom was fever, accompanied by extreme fatigue, dry cough, difficulty breathing. Joint pain, abdominal distension, diarrhea and other symptoms. The tongue coating was white or yellow, and the moisture was heavy. The onset is sudden, the disease spreads quickly, and it can easily become severe. The main disease is in the lungs, which can then lead to failure of other organs."

"Traditional Chinese medicine experts examined the pneumonia patients and found that they had the characteristics of wind and temperature, mixed with dampness and heat toxins. The pathogenesis is that dampness and heat accumulate toxins, blocking the middle and upper burners, and it is easy to consume qi and cause siltation. Then the Wei When the Qi is divided into parts, the lung heat burns the fluid and becomes phlegm, and the obstruction of the phlegm and heat creates the syndrome of evil heat blocking the lungs. It is expected that the transmission will further worsen."

Gao Yuan pondered for a while: "The wind temperature is mixed with humidity and heat, and the epidemic...could the humidity have something to do with the weather in your south? Isn't it always hot and humid over there?"

He Fangdao: "Yes, yes, the teachers think so too."

Gao Yuan said: "If you just think it won't work, you have to treat it. Only after taking the medicine can you know the good or bad results."

He Fang doesn't know what to do, how can he have a chance to cure it?

Gao Yuan pinched his brows and asked: "Now is the peak period of Spring Festival travel. Are disease prevention measures in place?" He Fang said: "What the hell, the boss said that tens of millions of people in our city are infected. 300 people is not a big deal, and this disease is not a notifiable infectious disease."

Gao Yuan almost stopped swearing, and then he held back his anger and said, "So you haven't done anything now?"

He Fangdao: "No, it has been reported to the ministry. The ministry will send an expert team to help us find the pathogen tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."

Being thousands of miles away, Gao Yuan could not give any substantive advice. He said: "I know, let me know if anything happens. Also, be sure to wear a mask when you go out and come in."

He Fang said in a weak voice: "Masks seem to be of no use. A colleague wore a 12-layer gauze mask and was still infected."

Gao Yuan said angrily: "Then you wear 16 layers. Besides, don't you southerners like to drink herbal tea? You drink a little tea every day that can dilute dampness, replenish qi and benefit the body, and do preventive work. I don't want to The next time I see you, I will run to save you."

"Understood, teacher."

After hanging up the phone, Gao Yuan felt vaguely uneasy. Although Guangdong was far away from him, the transportation convenience now was far from what it was back then.It happened to be the peak of Spring Festival travel again, and Gao Yuan was very worried about the risk of spread.

Two days later, the rumor spread quietly, but more people still didn't take it to heart.On that day, the national team also played a friendly football match with the Brazilian team. The scene was lively and there were many fans present.Two days later, Guangzhou's tourism market was booming and large-scale concerts were successfully performed.

In late February, the situation quietly changed. The number of sick people suddenly increased, and the cases began to spread to other places.

The rapid deterioration of the situation finally attracted attention, and they began to report the situation to the outside world and the WHO on a daily basis.But by this time, it was too late.The outside world is in chaos and rumors are flying everywhere.White vinegar, isatis roots and garlic are being snapped up, prices are skyrocketing, and panic and fear are spreading.

After Gao Yuan learned about the situation in the south, he couldn't sit still. He promptly wrote a letter of advice to the county and superiors requesting to strengthen prevention and control, but he did not receive a reply.

In early March, the first patient was reported to Beijing, and then the WHO issued a global warning. On the 15th, the poison king appeared in Beijing, and a large number of medical staff fell down in turn.

Xie, a retired female worker from Gao Yuan's provincial capital, went to Beijing for a funeral. Her brother went to the hospital for treatment for colon cancer, but he died in the hospital. The hospital concluded that he died of fever and the cause was unknown.Xie returned from a funeral and soon developed fever symptoms, and then went to the hospital to seek treatment and get medicine.

She told the doctor that she had a cold and needed some fever-reducing and cold medicine.

The doctor kept her in the emergency room for observation for a while. Seeing her shortness of breath, the doctor arranged for an examination.While waiting, in view of the current epidemic situation, the doctor carefully asked the hospital electrician to install an isolation board for Xie.Finally, Xie was diagnosed with acute pneumonia and admitted to the hospital.

Three days later, Xie died and was diagnosed with SARS before his death.

Subsequently, more than 10 hospital employees were infected, including the electrician who came to the emergency room to help open partitions that day.

This disease was introduced to Gaoyuan Province.

(End of this chapter)