On December 27, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on the implementation of "Category B and B management" measures for new coronavirus infections.
A reporter asked at the meeting:
Is there any difference between the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the local government’s method of tracking the number of infections?
For example, the data released at the New Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Press Conference held by the Zhejiang Provincial Government on the 225th showed that the number of newly reported positive cases per day has exceeded 1 million. However, the China CDC announced 26 new confirmed cases on the 26th. Is there a difference in the way of tracking the number of infections?
In this regard, Yin Wenwu, chief physician of the Transmission Prevention and Control Division of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that after adjusting the prevention and control measures, took a variety of measures to collect relevant epidemic information to assess the intensity and development trend of the epidemic.
First, continue to carry out online reporting on notifiable infectious diseases.
Second, collect information on some sentinel hospitals, including fever clinics conditions, severe cases, and deaths in some hospitals.
Third, collect relevant big data from various aspects, such as sales data of fever drugs in pharmacies, 120 help information, etc., to make up for the lack of reported data and study and judge the overall epidemic development trend, epidemic intensity and changes in the epidemic situation in various places.
Yin Wenwu said that China CDC is also actively maintaining contact with various places. Various localities are actively carrying out work. Some are conducting infection surveys in communities, and some are conducting online questionnaire surveys. These have made up for the lack of reported information and played a great role in the assessment of the entire epidemic.
Obviously, the spokesperson’s answer was not an explanation of the reporter’s question. After the report of
" Cover News ", many netizens left messages saying that they did not understand the CDC's response, which did not answer the question.
Everything must be forewarned, otherwise it will be ruined.
In the current pandemic, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since we need to hold this press conference to answer the question "the infection data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is different from local ones", it is to eliminate public doubts. Then you should be able to consider in advance how to answer this question that everyone is concerned about.
However, Chief Physician Yin of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention failed to answer the reporter's question directly, but gave a response that did not answer the question.
This not only failed to eliminate the recent doubts in society and on the Internet about the number of infections tracked by the Central CDC and local governments, but on the contrary, it intensified the contradiction; most importantly, the media also reported it truthfully.
In the era of a pandemic, credibility is very important, especially as a sensitive institution like China CDC, every word and deed represents the country’s attitude towards epidemic prevention and control.
In fact, the Chinese people also know the difficulties and hardships of China's disease control, and more Chinese people will not complain that China's disease control has made mistakes. However, in order to dispel public doubts, the CDC held a press conference and gave such a response that did not answer the question. I am afraid that any Chinese citizen will question the credibility of the CDC.
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