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Chapter 966 - 17 D-day
After staying up all night, Sun Li'en finally fell asleep slowly at six o'clock in the morning.The things in the dream were bizarre, but when Sun Lien was woken up by Hu Jia, he had almost forgotten everything in the dream.

The only impression left was grotesque.At the moment before Sun Lien woke up, he vaguely remembered that he seemed to be standing on the top of a towering mountain with strange rocks.He was covered in armor, and was trying to hold up a huge banner that slanted outward.

When Hu Jia woke him up from the bed, Sun Lien only felt that he was covered in cold sweat.He jumped up from the bed like a balloon that quickly floated up after sinking to the bottom of the sea, and then sat on the bed, breathing in the air heavily.

"Are you okay?" Hu Jia sat on the side worriedly. She grabbed Sun Lien's hand and measured his pulse. "Your heartbeat is at one hundred and four. What's going on? Did you have a nightmare?"

"I don't know." Sun Li'en shook his head, and he said in a tone almost moaning, "I...I don't remember."

The vision in the dream, handsome as it sounds, is almost as impressive as the photo of the Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima.But in the dream, Sun Li'en only felt the tension and fear that he couldn't breathe for a while.

It seems that after the flag is raised, the dawn of victory is not ushered in.It's the enemy's coming, wave after wave of attacks.

"You've been under too much pressure recently." Hu Jia touched Sun Lien's forehead with some distress, and then wiped the sweat off his face with the sleeve of his pajamas, "If you feel uncomfortable, why don't you go to the doctor in the psychology department?" Let's chat?"

"I... Let me think about it." Sun Li'en originally wanted to refuse directly, but looking at Hu Jia's eyes, it was really hard for him to say such words.So he decided to take a slight detour, "There are a lot of things these two days, I will go to the psychology department when I have a little more time..." He thought for a long time, and then he remembered a name, "Go to Dr. Lai from the psychology department. "

"Don't wait to be free, take some time to go." Hu Jia reminded her a few more times, and then turned to get busy with cleaning herself—she would occasionally stay in Sun Li'en's dormitory when she had to get up early in the morning to go to work.But after all, this place is just an occasional place to live, and the things are not complete enough.So she had to go to the hospital a little earlier - there was her overnight bag in the nurse's rest area, which was more complete.

Sun Lien, who only slept for an hour, decided to sleep for a while.There is no outpatient work today. Shen Xi and the others in the laboratory are working at full capacity, and there is no further work for them to do at present.As for the CDC, there is no further news to share with Sun Lien for the time being—they are probably also testing and separating the samples day and night, and conducting repeated electron microscope inspections.

Apart from sleeping well, Sun Lien can't do much.

I don't know if it's his own illusion, but Sun Li'en always has a feeling that a big battle is imminent.Even though almost the entire Fourth Hospital and even Ningyuan Medical College were preparing for the war, Sun Li'en still didn't feel any sense of security.It's a really bad feeling -- when you have a clear feeling that something big is going to happen, but all the preparations you've made can't reassure you...it's almost like torture.

This "torture" lasted until 08:30 in the evening.The Yunhe Municipal Health and Health Commission issued a briefing again - there are currently a total of 59 patients who meet the diagnosis of viral pneumonia of unknown cause, of which 7 are severe patients.The vital signs of the remaining patients are generally stable, and they are currently receiving isolation treatment in medical institutions in Yunhe City, and no deaths have been found.

这59名患者中，发病最早的时间可以追溯到12月12日，最晚的则为12月29日。目前一共追踪到了163名密切接触者，对其余密切接触者的追踪工作仍在进行中。

In this notification, the most eye-catching content is the exclusion of pathogens - influenza, avian influenza, adenovirus and infectious atypical pneumonia (SARS), as well as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) have been excluded and other respiratory pathogens.

After seeing this notification, Sun Lien sighed deeply.

Among the 59 patients, the latest onset was on the 29th.This means that the disease may have an average incubation period of six days or even longer, and the local close contact screening and screening work has encountered great difficulties-a patient has an average of less than three close contacts, which is unlikely thing.

Even counting from the day the national expert team arrived at Yunhe, the local disease control department made every effort to trace the close contacts.In four days, only 163 close contacts were found. The difficulties and pressures encountered by the local disease control department can be seen.

What's more troublesome is that among the 59 patients who were diagnosed, the latest time of onset was December 12.If you are unfounded and extremely optimistic, this means that at least from the 29th, the local epidemic has been completely controlled.All patients and close contacts with this coronavirus have been intensively treated or controlled.All sources of transmission have been suppressed, and even the patients who have been carried and have not developed the disease have been controlled.

But this is obviously impossible - the time point for the Yunhe City Health Commission to issue a warning is December 12.Instead of December 30th.

In other words, from the 30th to at least the six days until the 5th, a batch of infected patients should be discovered and then treated.However, it was not reflected in the notification of the Yunhe City Health Commission.

Sun Lien is not sure what has changed here, whether there is a problem with the diagnostic criteria, or the patient's symptoms have changed.

If you think so, then things may be more serious-what if the symptoms of the patients admitted at the beginning are not typical symptoms of the disease?What if, just if, if the characteristics of this disease are completely different from SARS, and only a small number of them show typical respiratory infection symptoms such as fever and cough?
This means that the patients admitted at the beginning are actually the group with the least typical symptoms?

No, this should not be possible.Sun Lien quickly rejected this idea, and the reason is very simple - if there are more than 50 patients with atypical symptoms, it means that the number of infected people in Yunhe may be dozens or even hundreds of times that of 59 people.If there are really so many infections, what a fart of epidemic prevention!Everyone just raised their hands and surrendered.

After much deliberation, Sun Lien decided to make a phone call to communicate with Professor Zhang Zhifu.He is an infectious disease expert and a member of Yunhe, so he has the most say on this situation.

"It is unlikely that the symptoms are not typical." Sure enough, after listening to Sun Lien's hypothesis, Professor Zhang first vetoed this guess, "Coronavirus is a typical respiratory virus, and the symptoms it exhibits should be related to the respiratory tract first. .And fever is a natural symptom of the human body after being infected. It is impossible to be infected but not have fever."

"That is to say...the reason why there are no patients after the 29th may be more complicated?" Sun Lien asked cautiously, "Is there a problem with the diagnostic criteria?"

"Let's put it this way." Professor Zhang Zhifu sighed, "Although I don't know what happened locally, let's think about it in reverse—as an ordinary citizen, you suddenly find that there are hundreds or even more cases in the city you live in. Many patients with infectious diseases get sick at the same time. This disease seems to be as terrible as the SARS that ravaged the country. Winter is originally a period of high incidence of respiratory symptoms, so once you find yourself feeling a little uncomfortable, coughing and fever, what will you do?"

"I'll go to the hospital." Sun Lien suddenly realized, "You mean..."

"I don't know the specific situation on their side." Professor Zhang Zhifu sighed again, "But one thing is for sure—ordinary masks are useless to prevent coronavirus infection. Medical surgical masks are better than ordinary masks, but they are also Just one point. If you want to really prevent such a virus infection, you must at least use an N95 mask." He paused and asked, "Do you know how many people Yunhe has? 1000 million people. At least 1000 million people. 1000 million people If one percent of the people in this country have upper respiratory symptoms and decide to go to the hospital, that's 10 people!"

Cold sweat broke out from Sun Li'en's body immediately, and that terrifying scene instantly appeared in his mind.

Numerous patients with cough, sputum, and fever symptoms flocked to the hospital wearing ordinary masks that were basically useless.Among these people, as long as there is one person infected with the coronavirus, it means that everyone will be directly at risk of infection!

"The social operation must not be chaotic, and there must be no social panic!" Professor Zhang Zhifu said firmly, "Once there is chaos, I don't know how many people will be infected in the hospital and how many people will die! I don't care about Yunhe. What are the plans of the health system..." He lowered his voice, and said sternly to Sun Li'en, "These words must not be spread outside the public. If one is not careful, it will cost countless lives!"

"Then what can we do now?" Sun Li'en asked, "Mr. Zhang, this is an infectious disease! Social panic will cause big troubles, but if we continue to let it go like this, the troubles will only be worse in the future - if we lose trust , it’s too late to say anything!”

"There is only one thing we can do—be prepared." Zhang Zhifu's voice trembled, "Ningyuan is not too far away from Yunhe, we may be able to receive patients across provinces, and we may also provide supplies... Isn't your laboratory in the middle of Are you developing detection reagents? This is also preparation.”

"My family is all in Yunhe. I'm more anxious than you." At this point, Zhang Zhifu's voice suddenly calmed down, and he even persuaded Sun Lien in turn, "Lien, I don't have much to say, we There is only so much we can do. But you have to believe that every bit of our preparations will be put to great use. Individual strength is weak and worth mentioning, but these tiny forces organized can move mountains and seas .”

Professor Zhang took a deep breath, "What we have to do now is to accumulate strength and wait for the organization. When the charge is blown, we must be able to move, do well, and win the fight!"

(End of this chapter)