COVID-19 ⁽⁷²⁾

Bacteria divide once a minute, and viruses produce a new generation every 6–8 hours, so the pathogenic microbes of nature are not static. Myths often say, "One day in the cave, a thousand years in the world"—meaning a single day for the immortals is a…

Fever clinics in Beijing, Wuhan, Hebei, and elsewhere have already seen medical crunches, with people queuing for hours to see a doctor. Hospitals and clinics everywhere are packed with people getting IV drips to break fever, so that fever-reducing drugs there are nearly exhausted, and…

With the epidemic at an emergency, an anxious patient's family member contacted me, asking me to try to persuade his elderly father to get vaccinated. The old man has dealt with me for over two years and is very adherent to my advice. His family…

After pandemic controls are relaxed, a wave of panic as infections rise is quite normal. But like a tide, this panic will recede before long.As most people around us recover at home on their own, people will no longer be thrown into panic, society will…

The "Ten New Measures" released today mean that the shift in our country's pandemic-control policy is essentially complete.After three years of fighting the epidemic, we have been comparatively lucky: our building door was temporarily locked down only one night, and that happened while we were…

During the Jin-Yuan period in China, society was turbulent, with wars and plagues following one after another. The common people suffered terribly, illness was widespread, and the population dropped sharply. This particular historical period, however, also stimulated the development of medicine. Li Dongyuan, one of…

Recently many friends have asked me how we should protect ourselves now that the country's pandemic-control policy is undergoing major change. Considering that most of my readers are cancer patients and their families—this group is indeed the most vulnerable—I feel it is necessary to write…

First, let me explain the meaning of the term I coin in this article, the "lying-down lockdown" (tangfeng). A popular expression these days is "taking a shot while lying down," meaning an innocent person gets hit by a bullet they never deserved. By the "lying-down…

Two buildings in our community are locked down; today ours, fortunately, remains unsealed, the only building left in the neighborhood where one can still move about freely. But most people in Beijing’s Haidian District are already working from home, and to avoid trouble the great…

After three years of raging and evolving, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has become somewhat less virulent, but its transmissibility has grown ever stronger. As the cost of control has mounted, governments around the world have successively adjusted their epidemic strategies, and China is no exception. We…