With the return to work wave coming, are temperature-testing precautions useful?

Zhong Nanshan's team's first paper on novel coronavirus (titled "Clinical characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus infection in China" for those who are interested) mentions that there are many patients are not febrile in the early stages, and less than half (about 43.8%) are febrile even at the time of presentation. However, despite this, fever is still a major clinical symptom in new coronavirus infected patients (43.1% of infected patients also developed fever in the early stage). That's why temperature testing at all public transportation entrances and exits is a very effective outbreak prevention and control measure during this time of return to work, so imagine what would happen if temperature testing were eliminated. Of course, this also puts a lot of pressure on the prevention and control of the epidemic in major cities, especially first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

What if some people have normal temperatures during the incubation period?

Detecting body temperature is only one of the means of epidemic prevention. Some people are in the incubation period and do not have symptoms such as fever, cough, or malaise. This part of the population is the focus and difficulty of epidemic prevention, and everyone needs to participate in the fight against the epidemic. The most important principles areReduce person-to-person contact to protect yourself from infection.

The first thing is to wear a mask.Especially in public places with high traffic (on planes, trains, buses, elevators, etc.), even ordinary medical masks can effectively reduce the risk of infection. For example, in Shenzhen subway or bus must wear a mask, if not wearing a mask will be discouraged to leave, do not listen to persuasion may also be transferred to the public security organs to deal with. In order to meet the back-to-work army, to ease the tight supply of masks, the domestic transfer of goods is difficult, Shenzhen has mobilized enterprises to overseas purchases and to combat counterfeit and shoddy masks.

Secondly, wash your hands regularly.You need to wash your hands before and after meals, when you return from a night out, and after you finish work, according to standard washing techniques.

Again, reduce exposure.On the one hand, we ourselves go out and pay attention to hand hygiene, reduce unnecessary touch, do not use their hands to directly touch their mouth, nose, eyes and other parts; on the other hand, keep a distance from others (more than 1 meter is safer), reduce unnecessary meetings, dinners and other activities.

Again, there is the need to keep our surroundings hygienic.For each of us, we need to wash our clothes diligently, keep our home environment clean and hygienic, and gout well, while companies and properties need to disinfect their public environments on a daily basis and keep public places ventilated.

Lastly, and very importantly, healthcare professionals need to step up their screening of suspected patients, especially those with epidemiological history, and medical observation of those who have close contact with confirmed cases. If residents have symptoms of acute respiratory infection such as body temperature exceeding 37.3°C, coughing, shortness of breath, etc., they should seek prompt medical attention at a hospital fever clinic.

In short, this war against the "epidemic" is something we all need to participate in.

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It doesn't quite work, but it has to be this controlled execution.

Epidemic prevention: responding to Zhong Nanshan to last another 14 days.

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Recently, academician Zhong Nanshan said that from January 23rd, the city was closed to February 6th (the 13th day of the first month) for the first 14 days.

The outbreak will not be considered under control until another 14 days from February 7 (the 14th day of the first month) and until February 20 (the 27th day of the first month) if there is no new rise. One 14-day period will not solve the problem, so please cooperate and it is important to protect yourself for the 2nd 14-day period.

Having seen today's confirmed cases break 30,000 and new cases remain over 3,000, we still need to do a good job of preventing the epidemic for the second 14 days.

For everyone, work, business can come again, but life and family only comes once, so I hope everyone cooperates with the state for another 14 days!

Walk for 100 days. The second 14 days are important, very important. Let's hold on for another 14 days. Every Chinese is a warrior in this plague sniper battle. Come on, everyone!

Don't ask such boring questions, you've solved everything by not going out yourself!