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Chapter 1110 Snow in front of the door and frost on the tiles

When eating breakfast in the morning, Sun Li'en was a little worried.Although he has never been to Japan, and he has no relatives and friends who have settled in Japan.However, as neighboring countries across the sea, the total amount of personnel exchanges and economic and trade exchanges between China and Japan is very huge.

According to the current inexplicable epidemic prevention measures and control plan of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, it may only be a matter of time before the epidemic spreads from the ship to the land.The [-]-day quarantine on board does not provide practical physical isolation.They turned on the central air-conditioning, and let the crew members wearing gloves and masks deliver meals to quarantined passengers one after another.At the same time, these guests are allowed to line up for a walk on the deck every two days-and they don't need to wear masks.

With such a "control plan" in place, the Jewel Princess cruise ship will inevitably become a breeding ground for this terrible respiratory disease.Judging from the current scale of confirmed cases, a super-spreading event has already occurred on the Jewel Princess cruise ship.And the second-generation, third-generation cases may have also appeared on the ship.

The current situation is too bad.Sun Li'en frowned and sighed, spreading at this speed... I am afraid that after Yunhe's epidemic is suppressed, there will be outbreaks in several foreign countries.The world is now more connected than it was 17 years ago, and it is normal for a large number of people to travel to and from multiple countries by plane.This made Sun Li'en very worried - the outbreak of Yunhe's epidemic consumed almost one-tenth of the country's intensive care doctor resources. Tens of thousands of doctors rushed here from all over the country to support the fight against the epidemic. Pack all kinds of resources that you can provide.From medical staff to anti-epidemic materials, from medicines to fresh vegetables... Although the supply of materials is still not enough, and the types of daily necessities are still relatively simple, it is much better than it was at the beginning.

Supporting a city with the power of the whole country can only go so far.If the outbreak of the epidemic starts abroad, the epidemic passes through international traffic, and then leads to outbreaks in several or even dozens of cities in China at the same time... What should we do?
Thinking of this, Sun Lien shuddered.

As a doctor, Sun Li'en can't do much.Fortunately...he was a researcher at a medical school—the kind with his own laboratory.

"Brother, what's the matter?" Shen Xi who received a call from Sun Lien early in the morning was a little surprised. Normally, Sun Lien communicated with him mainly through WeChat.It is very rare for Sun Lien to call directly, and even if Sun Lien calls, he will try to choose the afternoon or evening as much as possible.Calling this early in the morning is really not in line with his habits.

"How is the output of our kits?" Sun Lien asked bluntly on the phone, "How is the false negative rate and sensitivity now?"

"It has reached the standard sent by the relevant department." This question made Shen Xi a little strange, "Didn't you already know about this?"

"We have all the intellectual property rights for this kit, right?" Sun Lien asked a somewhat strange question again.

"Yes." Shen Xi replied, he vaguely felt as if... things didn't seem that simple.

"You sort out our test data a little bit, especially the acuity." Sun Li'en said in a deep voice, "You call Mr. Shen of Yuhua Group, and then give them the data and ask them to contact Takeda Pharmaceutical .”

Now Shen Xi was completely dizzy, "Ah? Brother Sun, what are you doing?"

"Sell our test kits to Japan." Sun Lien said solemnly, "It doesn't matter what the price is, as long as we don't lose money. Let Yuhua talk to Takeda Pharmaceutical. But the speed must be fast, and it is best within today Preliminary intention reached."

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In Sun Lien's view, there are three main deficiencies in Japan's epidemic prevention. The first is the most serious problem now - a serious shortage of testing capabilities.

Due to weak detection capabilities, passengers on a cruise ship Gem Ji could not even complete all nucleic acid tests on the same day.And Yokohama is already the third largest city in Japan - if they can only complete more than 200 nucleic acid tests a day, it can be foreseen that there will be no reference data for the future epidemic prevention work.

The second biggest flaw is also a headache for Sun Lien in China.Even Xiao Linfeng, who has a relatively rich understanding of the epidemic, has this defect-they are too confident in their medical capabilities.

As the only "developed country" in Asia, the Japanese people and government agencies are undoubtedly "arrogant".Japan has a high degree of private medical care, and the level of medical education and medical technology is also very high.

Yunhe's situation is serious. In the eyes of Japan, Yunhe's problems are due to the poor medical level in China, the lack of hygiene concept of the Chinese, and the strange eating habits of the Chinese.In short, they believed that the epidemic would not be able to spread in Japan, and even if it spread, the situation must be much stronger than that of Yunhe.

China's image has long been covered by negative news that attracts attention from the media. It is very rare for ordinary Japanese to have a favorable opinion of China.After misjudging China's capabilities, they have this kind of... inexplicable self-confidence.

The third flaw is the wrong overestimation of their own medical system.

Although the Japanese always feel that the level of the entire medical system in China is so poor that it is not eye-catching, in fact, China's disease control system is learned from the best disease control organization on the planet - the US Centers for Disease Control.Not only is everyone called CDC, but even the main operating mode is systematically learned from the United States.

Before the advent of the 21st century, China's public health work mainly focused on the prevention and control of two Class A infectious diseases, including smallpox, hemorrhagic fever, measles and various parasitic diseases.During this period, health and epidemic prevention stations in various places undertook the implementation of major disease control tasks.After 2000, for the first time, China began to establish a system of disease control institutions with the same standards as the West.Eleven months after its establishment, the Centers for Disease Control ushered in its first major test—the outbreak of the SRAS epidemic.

The CDC, which had just been established at that time, gained huge resources in the following years, but as time went by, the loss of CDC talent still became a serious problem for the CDC.The epidemic direct reporting system, which has been in use for more than ten years, has always had a good record in these years, but it suddenly showed huge shortcomings in this new coronavirus epidemic.

Despite some shortcomings, the CDC has still played a major role in the battle against the epidemic.The laboratory of the Center for Disease Control was the first to isolate the virus sample, the first to complete the whole genome sequencing, and the first to complete the shooting of electron microscope micrographs.All these have created conditions for controlling the spread of the disease.

But the situation in Japan is completely different from China - they don't have a dedicated disease control and prevention agency at all.There is no direct reporting system, no high-level biosafety laboratory affiliated to the national level, and no large number of professionals engaged in disease prevention and control work for a long time.It can be said that Japan, as the only developed country in Asia, is almost a blank sheet of paper in the control and prevention of infectious diseases.

There is no detection capability, overconfidence, and a lack of epidemic prevention and control institutions and professionals.Although Japan has been rated as the country with the highest medical quality in Asia by various top medical journals and institutions around the world, in fact they are as vulnerable as a spider's thread when facing infectious diseases.Even Vietnam has its own center for disease control, but Japan has no such agency at all.They have only one agency under the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare called the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, whose main function is to provide a certain level of data research and analysis, and to formulate operating specifications for pathogens, antibiotics, and other biosafety laboratories.

What's more terrible is that due to the long-term economic recession, Japan's domestic manufacturing industry, especially the production of epidemic prevention necessities such as masks, cannot be self-sufficient at all.The annual production of masks in Japan is about 11 billion, while the import volume is as high as 44.3 billion.China is the world's largest mask producer and exporter, accounting for more than 50% of the world's annual output.Now it is so difficult to buy a mask in China, and countries like Japan that need to import a large number of masks... the difficulty of epidemic prevention is simply hell.

Doctors have national boundaries, and scientists have national boundaries.But viruses know no borders.In today's highly globalized world, once an epidemic breaks out in Japan, which is across the sea, it means that all Chinese cities that have air traffic with Japan will face the risk of the epidemic being imported into the country.

The epidemic situation in Yunhe has gradually been brought under control. Except for Xiangbei Province, the number of confirmed cases in all parts of the country has also decreased for 11 consecutive days.When the goddess of victory gradually began to smile at the public health personnel, medical personnel, and other important staff who were almost dying of overwork, and even the people of the whole country, the risk of imported cases from abroad was rapidly increasing.If you hold the idea of ​​"everyone sweeps the snow in front of their own doors and don't care about the frost on others", the infectious diseases abroad will come back to China sooner or later.

The only way Sun Lien can think of is to improve Japan's PCR detection capabilities by transferring the production method of detection kits and exporting finished kits.After they have real data, maybe they will be able to realize the seriousness of the situation and start to deal with the epidemic seriously.

Again, viruses know no borders.Before the threat of the epidemic, helping others is helping yourself.

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"President Shen, Director Sun called me just now." After receiving Sun Lien's order, although she didn't quite understand the specific reason for the order, Shen Xi still faithfully performed her duties.He quickly called Shen Qingmei and asked, "Director Sun would like to contact Takeda Pharmaceuticals through you, and then transfer the finished kits we are producing and the production patents to them."

Shen Qingmei on the other end of the phone was stunned for a while, and then asked, "Now?"

"Yes, now." Shen Xi replied, "I don't know what the situation is, but this matter is more urgent. Director Sun said on the phone that the sooner the matter is done, the better. A preliminary cooperation intention has been reached today."

This request is also completely confusing to Shen Qingmei.At present, Yuhua Biotech has six workshops that are working overtime 24 hours a day to produce kits, but the output still cannot meet the needs of all parts of the country.The kits are loaded into large trailers almost as soon as they come off the production line.The kits were quickly shipped across the country either by air or by ground.Shen Qingmei even considered whether to ask other biological companies to assist in the production of kits by outsourcing production.Takeda Pharmaceutical is also one of the directions she is considering.

But now it is necessary to sell the production patent of the kit and the finished kit to Takeda Pharmaceutical, and even "the price doesn't matter", which is really a bit wrong.

Fortunately, although Shen Qingmei herself didn't know what happened, she still had a professional analysis team under her command to help her find the answer.After an emergency meeting to assign tasks, Shen Qingmei got a preliminary report an hour and a half later.

According to the analysis and rough estimation of the professional team of Yuhua Group, once the epidemic situation on the Baoji Ji cruise ship breaks through the control of Japan, the epidemic situation will completely get out of control within a month.According to the preliminary basic reproduction number obtained from the current data, by March 3, there will be at least 15 to 2000 confirmed patients across Japan, and the number of new infections may exceed [-] per day.

At present, the PCR detection capacity in Japan is about 3000 times a day, while the detection capacity in Yokohama is less than 300 times.This level is obviously not enough to deal with the possible explosive increase in the number of infected people in the future.

"We suggest that you apply for the certification and use license of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for the kit as soon as possible." While giving the analysis and forecast, the analysis team also gave relevant suggestions, "If the relevant approval process can be completed before February 2 , and if the test kits are put into use, the total number of confirmed cases may drop to about 25 by March 3. And the number of newly infected people every day should be compressed to around 15."

Shen Qingmei's eyes widened, she never thought that the situation in Japan had become so bad.After a few seconds, she picked up the phone and started dialing.

"Mr. Wang, I'm Shen Qingmei." Shen Qingmei said to Wang Tianqi on the other end of the phone with a stern expression, "Are you still in Ningyuan now? I have an important matter to talk to you. Look, I'm the one who went there. Or are you coming to me?"

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"If Yuhua agrees, and the patent holder agrees, I'm willing to buy it immediately." In Shen Qingmei's office, Wang Tianqi, who had just recovered after listening to the research and judgment results of Yuhua Group's analysis team, immediately made plans A decision was made, "In terms of price, I still need to communicate with the parent company."

"The price can be set according to your price - as long as you bid, we will immediately agree to sign. Director Sun and I both believe that the most important job now is to provide Japan with mature and reliable inspection equipment." Shen Qingmei's expression was extremely Seriously, "Making money is no longer the most important job now. If the epidemic cannot be brought under control, the world's economy will be doomed!"

As a businessman, a relatively normal business environment is very important.No matter how capable an enterprise is, it will be more or less affected when the general environment is not good.Although the Yuhua Group itself does not have any business operations in Japan, the entire Gangyu Bank and Yuhua Group hold a large number of shares in Takeda Pharmaceutical.Once the stock price falls due to the impact of the epidemic, Yuhua's huge investment will suffer.

However, if Takeda Pharmaceutical can quickly master the production of the kit, it may be a blessing in disguise for Yuhua Group.

"You should contact Takeda's head office as soon as possible, and if possible, do things like workshop renovation first." Shen Qingmei said seriously to Wang Tianqi, "We have no opinion on the transfer of patent rights, but patent rights Director Sun and his team are not completely owned. According to relevant regulations, Ningyuan Medical College owns 51% of the patent rights. To authorize your company, it needs to be approved by relevant departments—we will push forward this approval as soon as possible.”

(End of this chapter)