"During the Spring Festival, the flow of people will increase significantly, especially the increase in entry and exit personnel, which will increase the new crown variant1 The risk of transmission, the risk of various respiratory tract infections will also increase, but the overall risk of respiratory tract infections tends to decline just after experiencing a small peak of influenza A and influenza B. "On January 30, there will be an increase in JN for the Spring Festival1 of the spread, a number of experts told the people's ** health client reporter.
On January 27, the Spring Festival transportation site at Datong Station in Shanxi, according to China Railway.
From January 26th to March 5th, a total of 40 days of Spring Festival travel opened, according to CCTV***, it is expected that there will be 9 billion people traveling, visiting relatives, leisure, etc., or will hit a record high. The Spring Festival will aggravate jn1 Spread? What is the hospital doing to prepare? How should individuals respond?
jn.1. The clinical symptoms are mild, and the risk of transmission will be increased during the Spring Festival.
jn.1 Since its appearance, the symptoms of infection have been very similar to those of the previous Omicron variant, causing symptoms such as fever, cough, headache, etc., mainly causing asymptomatic and mild illness, and generally not leading to more severe disease, there are indications, jn1 May cause more diarrhea than previous variants. On January 30, Lu Hongzhou, president of the Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, told reporters that China's monitoring data showed that jn1 Variants are mild or asymptomatic in people infected with different variants, and the symptoms caused by different variants are often similar, but the type and severity of symptoms usually depend more on individual immunity.
Talking about the current clinical infection situation, on January 30, Li Tong, chief physician of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Beijing You'an Hospital, once introduced, "At present, the clinical can only detect the new coronavirus nucleic acid to determine whether it is new crown infection, but it cannot distinguish whether the specific strain is JN."1, so jn1 The proportion also needs to look at the data released by the disease control, and now the confirmed cases of the new crown are said to have increased compared with the beginning of January, but the range is very small, and the proportion of the new crown in the fever clinic has gradually increased from about 1%-5% to about 5-10%, which has increased, but the amplitude is relatively small. ”
At present, from the clinical point of view of our hospital, fever patients are still mainly influenza, jn1 Symptoms are similar to those of the flu, but milder. On January 30, Cai Weiping, chief physician of the Infectious Disease Center of the Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, also told reporters that the large-scale and large-scale movement of people during the Spring Festival must make respiratory infectious diseases more easy to spread, but many people have been infected with the new crown and flu one after another, and will not be reinfected in the short term. Although the cross-immunity between influenza A and influenza B is not strong, people with normal immune function are not susceptible to reinfection with the other influenza in the short term.
The hospital has made an emergency plan, and the current process, testing, and drugs are sufficient.
Li Tong once said, "Even if the Spring Festival will increase the spread of diseases, but there is no need to panic, the hospital has accumulated experience in dealing with respiratory infections in the past few years, and the current hospital process, testing, and drug preparation are relatively sufficient, and the emergency plan has been repeatedly practiced, and there are also response plans for possible emergencies during the Spring Festival holiday." ”
At present, the hospital has sufficient beds in the wards and ICUs, and there will be fewer other patients during the Spring Festival. In view of the possible small peak of infection, the hospital has also made a plan and has the ability to appropriately strengthen the manpower allocation of the fever clinic according to the number of patients. Cai Weiping said.
What should I do about it? The above-mentioned experts also gave advice: first, people with fever and respiratory symptoms should avoid going out, especially avoid taking public transportation, avoid attending parties, visiting relatives and friends, etc.; Secondly, the focus is to protect the elderly, pregnant women, infants and young children, these relatively vulnerable groups of people are at high risk of severe disease after being infected with respiratory diseases, and try to make a clear diagnosis in a timely manner if there are symptoms, as soon as possible, once there is a high fever that does not go away, shortness of breath, chest tightness and breathlessness and other serious conditions, seek medical attention in time.