The debate starts with an article by Zhang Wenhong
On July 29, 2021, Dr. Zhang Wenhong wrote a Weibo post, proposing that the epidemic will not end in the short term and will not end in the long term. Most virologists in the world have already determined that this is a permanent virus, and the world must learn to coexist with this virus.
All parties responded to
In response to Zhang Wenhong's "dangerous" remarks, on August 7, 2021, Gao Qiang, general consultant of the Chinese Society of Health Economics and former Minister of Health, wrote an article in the People's Daily Health Client, criticizing Britain, the United States and other countries for "blaming the blame" the government's epidemic prevention mistakes to virus mutation, and pointed out that our country must adhere to strict prevention and control and must dispel the idea of "coexisting with the virus".
Since then, there have been two voices on the Internet: "Advocate the Zero-clearing faction" and "Support the Coexistence faction". The fingers were all aimed at Dr. Zhang Wenhong. Dr. Zhang was scolded by a group of people and chose to stop updating Weibo. Since then, all discussions on virus coexistence have stopped. China has chosen stricter lockdown measures.
virus has been mutating
When the new variant Omickron appeared at the end of November last year, after several months of observation in various countries around the world, by March this year, most experts have confirmed that the Omickron strain is highly contagious, but the mortality rate is low. After the epidemic at the beginning of the year, the data analysis given in Shanghai was also very detailed. In an interview, , a member of the expert group of the Municipal Epidemic Prevention and Control Leading Group, Yuan Zheng'an , said: Domestic and foreign research data show that the transmission speed of BA.5 mutant strain has accelerated and its immune escape ability has improved. However, overall, compared with the previously popular Omickron mutant strain BA.2, no significant difference was found in the risk of 's critical illness and mortality rate.
You can see that since the first half of 2022, various countries and regions have begun to open one after another. We know that Singapore is April this year, the United States and Vietnam are March this year, and Japan and South Korea have relaxed controls at about that time. Let’s do it, how much time have we lost?
When Dr. Zhang made coexistence remarks, those who stood up to curse him and slander him, and some people who said what is not suitable for discussion at this time now, don’t know what these people will think when facing the relaxation. What they said before was the view of resolutely eliminating viruses, which itself is unscientific in terms of virology . If it is not cleared abroad, how can we ensure that it is cleared?
Everything we do now is learning how to coexist with the virus. It also confirms that Mr. Zhang Wenhong’s previous view is correct. Since the virus cannot be eliminated, then learn to coexist with the virus. This is a scientific attitude.
