COVID-19 ⁽⁷²⁾

Today I saw a news report: Guo, a vice president of a hospital in Fugou County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province, violated the State Council health authority's pandemic-control rule that medical institutions without fever clinics must, after seeing fever patients, refer them in a closed loop…

Lately many ask me how the pandemic will go and whether to get the COVID-19 vaccine. A unified reply: the pandemic will not end; the vaccine can and must be taken. I finished my second dose on March 1; my seventy-something father with coronary disease…

Yesterday afternoon, I received my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine—a free vaccination organized by the community. I will receive the second dose on March 1, 21 days later. After seeing the vaccination notice posted by the community, I did not think too much about…

The pandemic has rebounded in Beijing, which was within my expectations. Every protective measure we could take, we have already taken. I carefully disinfect the goods bought online and the vegetables brought home from the market, and I have stocked up on plenty of food…

In mid-December 2020, an old friend from Zhejiang came to Beijing and invited me out to a restaurant; I politely declined — I had not eaten out in a year. He then suggested coming to my study to chat over tea, which I also politely…

After the pandemic raged for more than four months, the medical community's understanding of COVID-19 has become increasingly clear, and this novel pathogenic microorganism, the novel coronavirus, has firmly established itself among humans. Some asymptomatic carriers exhibit the characteristics of "Typhoid Mary"—carrying the virus long-term…

I have rarely read modern medical works in such large quantities as I have recently; during this period I have read many, and this reading has been truly absorbing, to the point that I forget to eat and sleep. After spending some time reading, I…

How long will COVID-19 last? When will a vaccine be ready? Can a vaccine save humanity? What impact will it have on human society? Many people hope for answers to these questions. In reality, no one can give an accurate answer. Some people trust the…

Today I saw a set of figures released by the International Labour Organization: the novel coronavirus has already put more than 1.2 billion people out of work worldwide, and the situation is still developing. In the period ahead, even more people will lose their jobs.

Recently I have read a large amount of medical material and historical documents concerning plague. Plague may be the infectious disease with the greatest impact on humanity in history; it has claimed countless lives and caused several population collapses in history-on many occasions killing more…