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Chapter 1016 D+3 day
At 21:[-] in the morning, Sun Lien woke up from his drowsy sleep.He didn't take sleeping pills today - turning over is really tiring.

Feeling the soreness coming from all over his body after a long absence, Sun Lien stood up and did a set of stretching exercises first.Then he took out his phone and began to check today's report from the Yunhe City Health Commission.

According to the report half an hour ago, Yunhe City had 80 new confirmed patients yesterday, 18 new deaths, and 2 new discharged cases.

This figure is more than double the 46 new cases reported yesterday.But on the 25th, the fatality rate of the new coronavirus pneumonia was about 7%, but today, the mortality rate has begun to rise to a level close to 9%.

This situation is very wrong.Something is very wrong.

In the past, when doctors faced an unfamiliar infectious disease, the mortality rate of patients must have remained high.Before the number of confirmed cases can be fully grasped, patients who die are always easier to identify than those who are infected but undiagnosed.

However, the number of confirmed cases has more than doubled, and the death rate of patients has not stabilized but has risen further... This is very unusual.

Two reasons suffice to explain the present situation.One reason is that the lethal results of this infectious disease have not yet been fully revealed, and it will take more time to kill the patients.Another reason is more chilling—the novel coronavirus may be more contagious than previous most serious estimates.There has been no particular change in the overall fatality rate, only a limited increase in the number of confirmed infections leading to this data distortion.

Sun Lien was silent for a while, and then thought of the third reason for the rapid increase in the death rate.

Medical run.

A large number of patients and suspected patients have overwhelmed almost all hospitals in Yunhe.Medical resources are unprecedentedly scarce, and almost all medical staff, regardless of surgery or internal medicine, are on the front line.But the existing medical resources are still not enough.

If the pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus is a self-limiting disease, it is easy to understand the rapid increase in the death rate caused by insufficient medical resources-after a certain period of time, the virus will always be immune to the human body The antibodies produced by the system are neutralized.But this "surviving a certain period of time" is not that simple.

Without the help of doctors, it is almost impossible for many middle-aged and elderly people with underlying diseases to "survive" by themselves.Even before the most serious consequences, they were admitted to the hospital.But the damage to the body caused by long-term hypoxemia has also become a fait accompli.Subsequent symptomatic treatment can also be difficult and ineffective.

Judging from the experience of the five northern districts, the mortality rate of critically ill patients has reached nearly 30%.The mortality rate of critically ill patients is at least 15%.These two data may rise further at any time-after all, there are currently only two patients showing signs of improvement.

Now the whole country is supporting Yunhe, but the support is still not enough.Sun Li'en sighed helplessly, the current Yunhe bed is not enough is the basic operation.Not only are there not enough beds, Sun Li'en just found out after looking at the work group on his mobile phone that the oxygen in the infectious disease hospital is almost running out.

Yunhe City Infectious Disease Hospital is a high-level specialized hospital.The hospital adopts the method of central oxygen supply to provide oxygen for the wards - the oxygen is transported from the medical oxygen company to the central oxygen station in the hospital, and then pressurized and shunted through the central oxygen station, and then supplied to each ward through the preset pipeline oxygen.

But the problem is that from the beginning of the design, the hospital has not considered providing oxygen to every oxygen port in all wards at the same time at the maximum flow rate.Now all the patients admitted to the Yunhe City Infectious Disease Hospital need to inhale oxygen.

Li Chengping, who was in charge of the night shift last night, repeatedly asked about the oxygen supply in the group on duty. After the staff in the logistics department said, "The low air pressure of the oxygen pipeline is not a fault and cannot be ruled out", he reluctantly began to ask the doctors in the group To carry oxygen cylinders.

Sun Lien's fourth group has more than 100 medical staff, and women account for nearly 15% of them.Except for several department heads who are men, the other deputy directors and attending physicians are mostly women.A steel 21-liter medical oxygen tank weighs about 40 kilograms, and if it is more commonly used, a 55-liter large medical oxygen tank that is about the height of a person weighs [-] kilograms.

With this weight, it is not impossible for those female nurses with terrifying strength in their hands to do it.But... why are the male doctors willing to let those little girls do this?Usually in the red zone, they are the ones who are too busy to touch the ground, and they are the ones who have the most contact with patients. Even when they enter the warehouse and wear protective clothing, they pay a much higher price than male doctors.

During these two days, many female doctors and nurses with long hair were taken to have their hair cut.The head nurses cut off their cherished long hair with the simplest and most brutal methods.

The matter of cutting hair is actually out of helplessness.Many nurses in internal medicine and surgery do not have short hair requirements in their daily work.Only nurses in the operating room and nurses in the infectious disease department ask for short hair.

Although the long hair is beautiful, it is easy to be polluted when taking off the protective clothing.And because the North Fifth District cannot provide the configuration of "buffer zone-disinfection and flushing zone", everyone needs to wrap their heads with disposable surgical caps in advance before they can put on protective clothing.

Nurses with long hair can't wrap their heads in uniform-sized disposable surgical caps, so...the hair has to be cut.

When the hair was cut, many of these girls, who had no hesitation when they signed up, cried.Everyone has a love of beauty, let alone these young girls who are just at their young age?But crying is crying, and reluctance is reluctance, but none of the dozens of nurses tried to bargain or even refused to cut their hair.At most, everyone muttered occasionally afterwards, "If you know you need to cut your hair, it's better to cut it in Ningyuan and then come back."

After hearing this kind of speech, most of the head nurses pretended to be angry and asked, "I think my haircut technique is not good, why don't you do it yourself?" But at most, they pretended to be angry and said a few words.For those colleagues who "really did not cut well", the head nurses are also very sorry.

Therefore, in the corridor of the hotel where the fourth group is stationed, one or two pieces of packaged chocolate can occasionally be found at the door of the nurses who have cut their hair.

Tiny luck happened quietly in the hotel. When the nurses wore masks and got together together, they would often wink each other's eyes, and then gesture a few fingers. "Condolences".

(End of this chapter)