□Zhang Yan (Renmin University of China) On December 11, the topic "Long queues of patients in Wuhan fever clinics" became a hot search. In the video, patients lined up from the hospital clinic to the parking lot. Not only Wuhan, but also the number of patients in fever clinics in

□Zhang Yan ( Renmin University of China )

htmlOn November 11, the topic "Wuhan fever clinic patients lined up" became a hot search. In the video, the patients lined up from the hospital clinic to the parking lot. Not only Wuhan, but also the number of patients in fever clinics in other places has also increased significantly. According to a report by " China Youth Daily " on December 10, at 8 pm on December 9, citizens waiting in line for treatment in front of the fever clinic of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University in Chaoyang District, Beijing. Some of them started queuing from 2 pm that day, and the waiting time had exceeded 6 hours.

In response to this, some experts promptly called on the public not to go to the fever clinic unless necessary. Crowding in the fever clinic is likely to cause cross infection, and the unnecessary medical runs caused may also cause difficulties for emergency and severe patients to seek medical treatment. If you are asymptomatic or mild patients, you are often advised to self-isolate at home by the doctor. This kind of timely appeal has alleviated the panic among the people to a certain extent.

But timely appeal is one aspect, and more attention should be placed on the reasons behind the surge in fever clinic patients. Since it is theoretically "useless" to go to the outpatient clinic and may even have cross-infection, why are so many patients willing to wait in front of the hospital's fever clinic under the cold wind?

One major dilemma is "difficulty in buying medicine". At present, many places are facing drug strain. It is reported that at present, not only in Beijing, but also in many cities such as Guangzhou, Wuhan, and Chongqing, have also found difficulties in purchasing medicines of varying degrees. Guangzhou Haizhu District, Tianhe District , Yuexiu District , Liwan District and other pharmacies reported that antigen , Lianhua Qingwen , ibuprofen and Merrill Lynch are the most intimate. In this case, patients with high fever for several days cannot buy antipyretics, so they have no choice but to queue up to find a doctor to prescribe medicine. It is unrealistic to let patients endure high fever without medication to relieve themselves at home, and on the other hand, it also implies the attitude of "why not eat meat minced".

Secondly, it is difficult for the public to judge themselves. Generally speaking, asymptomatic patients should monitor their health at home by themselves, and mild patients should go to nearby hospitals for treatment. But the key problem is that given individual differences, "asymptomatic" is not really asymptomatic, and "mild symptoms" are not necessarily really "light". People who have not been professionally trained cannot accurately judge themselves. As Chen Zhi, chief physician of Beijing Emergency Center, the 120 emergency hotline received consultations from a large number of asymptomatic infected patients, , mild patients on symptoms such as fever, and the need to use an ambulance, which are not emergency calls.

The correct science is more scarce than cold medicines, and the public's feelings after infection are significantly different from their existing cognition. Some media and "pseudo-" experts promote new crown as a small problem, and when some people are truly infected with the new crown, they find that the new crown cannot be equated with a cold. A high fever does not subside, general fatigue, muscle pain and possible suffocation, although the degree of danger is low, does not mean that it is not painful. When people lack real understanding of the virus and have psychological expectations, there will naturally be cases where a large number of asymptomatic and mild patients hope to receive treatment from the hospital due to wrong judgments on their physical condition.

The medical system is facing huge pressure, the top priority is to ensure that patients with mild symptoms have medicine to take and provide detailed and effective measures to relieve symptoms, rather than simply giving up suggestions to take at home; second, actively carrying out popular science. Experts and media use data science to correctly indicate the virus's infectious rate and pathogenicity rate, and try to make the standards for judging the severity of the disease specific and operational. Blindly emphasizing or weakening the new coronavirus will bring about a considerable degree of reverse effect.

As a public, we should also take the initiative to obtain information in a timely and proactive manner, reduce panic or contempt, prepare medicine reasonably, and seek various treatment channels, such as Internet consultations, and respond to the call for not going to the outpatient clinic unless necessary. We must believe in science, maintain rationality, save valuable medical resources to the elderly and the elderly and patients with underlying diseases, and work together to spend this winter.