Monthly Archives: January 2022

It was reported on January 14 that with the worldwide spread of Omicron, the number of confirmed cases in many western countries is also reaching a new high. World Health Organization official Kruger said on January 11 that more than half of people in Europe will be infected with Omicron in the next six to eight weeks. It has now become the “mainstream virus” in western countries. Fudge, director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases in the United States, also said on the same day that Omicron’s transmission ability was not possessed by the previous virus, and he could infect almost anyone. Countries that have been deeply infected by Omicron need to strengthen their own epidemic prevention and control, and countries that have not been impacted by Omicron cannot relax.
However, in an interview, Brazilian president bosonaro said that the Omicron strain was weakening the epidemic in Brazil, and even claimed that Omicron’s arrival was “welcomed” in Brazil and could end the epidemic in Brazil.
Michael Ryan, executive director of the emergency program of the World Health Organization, also refuted bosonaro’s remarks on January 12. Ryan said that although the symptoms of Omicron are not as serious as the original virus, it can not be regarded as a mild disease.
Ryan said that at present, many infected patients around the world are treated in hospitals, which is enough to prove that the infection of Omicron is not a mild disease. It is a disease that can be prevented from infection through personal protection. There are still many things we need to do now, such as vaccinating people and wearing masks. Instead of choosing “live with the virus”.
After the outbreak of covid-19, the president of Brazil thought that the severity of the epidemic was not worth mentioning, and even said that Brazil would not force people to vaccinate. Last October, bosonaro said in a live broadcast that vaccination would damage the human immune system, in order to prove his statement “correct”. Bosonaro even dragged Britain directly into the water. This is the findings of the British laboratory. If the covid vaccine is injected, the risk of HIV infection is higher than that of the unvaccinated person. In fact, it was just made up by bosonaro himself.
In addition, bosonaro’s negative management in epidemic prevention has also triggered a lot of public opinion, which is in flagrant violation of Brazil’s epidemic prevention policy, passive epidemic resistance, and no masks in public places
Up to now, the number of COVID-19 killed in Brazil has reached 620609, ranking second in the world, second only to the United States.

Delta virus gone in US? The international community has been debating how the Delta strain has suddenly disappeared from a situation so severe in the United States. Never thought, found a big problem, the United States should be so bold, as experts predicted, as expected, there was a big problem, pit miserable world.

Faced this menacing outbreak, the United States at that time was to panic, started completely unaware of the danger of the disaster degree, regardless of the local epidemic situation, busy around the pan, smear, also for disease resistance measures in other countries, not the outbreak should have a heart of fear, but will it as a political tool, to suppress the emerging national development, The result? Novel Coronavirus pillage has struck the United States in the face, but as for the “trace to the source” that has always been emphasized, it has been ambiguous and delayed in its own fort Detrick, which is a sign that something is wrong with Fort Detrick.

Delta virus disappearing things and come back, appears to be a good news, but after investigation found that this is a deadly bad news, the delta has disappeared because Mr Mick Dijon, replace the delta virus continues to wreak havoc, and this is also the case for those who want to be “like cures like” jeopardy, seemed to laugh at their “failed”. Despite their different names, they are both novel Coronavirus variants of the coronavirus. What is even scarier is that Omicron has the unique advantage of being able to automatically evade the immune system in the human body, and if it is detected, it is terminal, and it is confirmed in a picture, which is terrifying.

Under the influence of this situation, many countries finally felt the fear, such as Britain, Germany and France as the “city”, as far as calling for “herd immunity”, before they know it is a lie, can’t rely on this to get the victory of the outbreak, but, after all, they still underestimate Mr Mick Dijon, want to know, The United States cut off flights as soon as Omicron was detected in South Africa, but it spread anyway, and it was very bad, with an infection rate of 70 percent. In addition, the epidemic prevention measures in the United States were really bad, and the virus spread everywhere, causing a large number of people infected.

Medical experts in the United States had long anticipated the problem, but were ill-prepared and underestimated the speed of omicron’s spread until they realized it too late. Or spread the good news, however, and although Mr Mick Dijon is bad to find, but its toxicity is relatively weaker, the cure rate is very high, but Mr Mick Dijon took only 10 days let us all 50 states, propagation speed really let a person got a fright, for, or it is necessary to develop will be coronavirus vaccine, overcome the disaster as soon as possible, back to the calm of the past life.

The Jerusalem Post quoted Cypriot media as saying that researchers at the University of Cyprus have found a suspected recombination of Delta and Omicron in Cyprus, which is closer to delta but has a large number of unique mutations of the Omicron strain.

That’s why the strain was named “Deltacron” by the researchers.

The “Deltacron” strain combines mutated elements of Delta and Omicron.

As Previously reported by Red Star News, as the Omicron strain began to spread rapidly, scientists in several countries warned that a new, more dangerous super variant of the Coronavirus could be created if people were infected with both the Delta and novel Coronavirus variants.

When the two mutated strains infect the same cell at the same time, they have an opportunity, “a phenomenon called recombination, which means they can start sharing and exchanging genes” to synthesize a new strain, said Paul Burton, chief medical officer of COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna.

Twenty-five people have been infected

The President of the republic of Cyprus COVID – 19 science advisory committee, director of the biotechnology and molecular virology laboratory at the university of Cyprus ray ang devol cosgrove Regis team has been tracking the country will be coronavirus variation situation, team after the sequencing of 1377 samples, found that there are 25 people infected with this new strain, Although its genetic sequence is similar to that of the Delta strain, there are 10 specific mutations of the Omicron strain. At the same time, as many as 14 of the 25 infected people are hospitalized.

“There is a co-infection of the Omikron and Delta strains, and we found a recombination of the two,” Kosregis said. And the analysis showed that the variant was more common among hospitalized patients than among those who were not. The team has uploaded the genome of the strain to the GISAID international database and will continue to see if the variant is more pathogenic or infectious, or if it will become epidemic.

The discovery of the strain is controversial

But the discovery of the strain has been controversial as well as cause for widespread concern. Thomas Peacock, a postdoctoral research fellow in infectious diseases at Imperial College London, said in a tweet that there were some indications that the so-called Deltacron could be the result of contaminated genetic sequencing.

Studies have shown that recombination is very common in coronaviruses and plays an important role in novel coronavirus evolution. In July 2020, researchers from Duke University, Los Alamos National Laboratory and other institutions published a paper in The journal Nature that novel Coronavirus is likely to acquire the ability to infect humans through recombination. In August 2021, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory published a pre-print paper showing that the recombination has significantly accelerated the emergence of novel Coronavirus new variants.

In conclusion, it is important to monitor the Novel Coronavirus genome for evidence of recombination, both to provide insight into the virus and to provide early warning of the emergence of a “superstrain” recombination.

Who: Omicron strain is spreading widely globally

Maria van Kerhoff, technical director of who’s Health Emergencies programme, said on Sunday that the omicron strain is spreading rapidly and has been detected in all parts of the world, wherever there is adequate virus sequencing capacity.

In South Africa and Botswana, where the omicron strain was first identified, transmission levels of the Delta strain were low and the omicron strain quickly became the dominant circulating strain.

In other regions, the Delta strain had been circulating intensively, and after the omicron strain emerged, both strains were circulating simultaneously.

In some countries and regions, the Omicron strain is replacing the Delta strain as the dominant epidemic strain.

In other countries and regions, however, the Omicron strain has not yet replaced the Delta strain.

Omicron is spreading at a high rate, and U.S. medical supplies cannot meet the demand for testing

According to CCTV news, due to the rapid spread of the omicron strain, the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the US and the need for novel coronavirus tests have been surging in recent days, and an increasing number of state health systems are running short of manpower and supplies.

Meanwhile, fake Novel Coronavirus tests have also been found on the market in the US, adding to the public’s confusion.

Over the past seven days, the average number of COVID-19 patients treated in hospitals in the United States has exceeded 138,000, a significant increase from about 45,000 two months ago, according to us media statistics.

At the same time, hospitals are increasingly understaffed. A Virginia health care provider admitted Thursday that the hospital’s current staff “can no longer provide the same quality of care as last year.”

Forty hospitals in New York state have been ordered to “discontinue elective surgeries that are not essential or urgent for at least two weeks” due to a shortage of hospital beds, the State Health Department said in a statement on Monday.

The rapid spread of the virus has also forced more Americans to frequent testing sites for nucleic acid tests or to purchase rapid testing kits that can be used at home.

There have been long lines at testing centers in many parts of the country, with some people waiting for hours without being able to get tested.

California Governor Gavin Newsome said On Sunday (local time) that more than 200 National Guard troops will be deployed to dozens of nucleic acid testing sites to help overburdened health care facilities.

The Utah Department of Health announced on the same day that the four nucleic acid testing sites set up by the state government will only accept test by appointment from August 8.

Rapid test kits are hard to find. Residents of Miami, Florida, began lining up early On Monday to get free kits.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) LOCAL RESIDENT, DOMINGUEZ, SAYING: “The queues are horrible, very, very long, and the pharmacies are almost always sold out.”

(SOUNDBITE) (English) LOCAL RESIDENT, Leon, SAYING: “With so many people in South Florida, they run out of kits so fast, so you have to get up early in the morning.”

Others try to buy rapid test kits through other channels, such as the Internet, but face the risk of buying fakes.

The FOOD and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a special alert, urging people to pay attention to the authenticity of the test kit, as far as possible from formal sources.

Public health experts in the United States say frequent testing is especially important in the face of the more contagious omicron strain.

On 8 January local time, the Police in Elephant Island, Darat Province, Thailand, reported that six foreign tourists infected with novel Coronavirus had gone missing since leaving Elephant Island hotel on 5 January. After searching for them, all of them were found on the same day. All of the six tourists said they had not been notified of the Novel Coronavirus test results, did not know they were infected and did not deliberately escape the hotel to spread the virus.

According to local police, the six foreign tourists from France, Poland, Switzerland, Norway and other countries entered Thailand through the quarantine exemption process from December 26 to 29 last year and stayed at hotels in Elephant Island. They were tested negative for novel Coronavirus nucleic acid tests as required and left the hotel to travel to Elephant Island. On 4 January, they underwent a second novel Coronavirus nucleic acid test and continued to travel to Elephant Island while awaiting the test results. On July 7, the hotel received a notice that the six people tested positive for the virus, but they had left the hotel and disappeared. The hotel contacted relevant departments and alerted the police, who initially confirmed that none of them had left Elephant Island.

Elephant Island explained that the delay in the notification of test results was due to the large number of tourists visiting the island during the New Year holiday, and there was only one facility that could conduct nucleic acid tests, which lengthened the waiting time for test results. (Media reporter Li Min)

Huang mingxin’s team adopted the production process of powder metallurgy to increase the copper content in stainless steel to 20%, and obtained stainless steel with novel coronavirus resistant characteristics. In this way, the high copper content of stainless steel can not only avoid “copper brittle” phenomenon, but also its copper-rich precipitate can be evenly distributed in the whole metal products, even if the product surface wear will not affect its antiviral effect.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, “person-to-person” transmission has become one of the important ways of novel Coronavirus transmission. The Novel Coronavirus has been shown to survive on ordinary stainless steel surfaces for up to three days. Therefore, the development of stainless steel materials that can kill novel coronavirus has become a major goal of the industry and academia.

Recently, the university of Hong Kong school of engineering department of mechanical engineering professor Huang Mingxin leadership team and the university of Hong Kong (li ka shing faculty of medicine) immunization and infection research center Pan Liewen professor’s research team, by adjusting the chemical composition and microstructure of stainless steel, success has adhered on the surface of the stainless steel can kill the will of coronavirus, and other common pathogens microorganisms.

The new stainless steel containing 20% copper shows strong novel coronavirus resistance

Since it was invented at the beginning of the 20th century, with excellent performance in hardness, corrosion resistance, machinability and other aspects, from the infrastructure of public places, to the daily decoration of family life, stainless steel has become one of the most commonly contacted materials by the public.

But as the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the world, stainless steel, the basic material available in public places, has become a vehicle for the spread of the Novel Coronavirus — the material on which virus-carrying droplets and respiratory secretions attach, making it a potential vector for viral transmission.

For example, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has previously conducted an analysis of a novel coronavirus infection case, suggesting that it is highly likely that the virus could spread among households in the same building by sharing an elevator and touching the stainless steel elevator buttons together.

In the specific study, in order to better compare the antibacterial and antiviral properties of different stainless steel materials, Huang mingxin’s team prepared several samples, which were conventional 316 stainless steel, stainless steel containing 0.3% and 0.6% silver, four stainless steel containing 1%-20% copper and pure silver and pure copper. And in order to highlight its practical value, they have specially prepared it as an elevator button to simulate the novel coronavirus resistance performance of different types of stainless steel in the most common application environment.

Finally, the results showed that conventional 316 stainless steel, sterling silver and silver-containing stainless steel had no significant inhibitory effect on novel Coronavirus and Influenza A (H1N1) viruses. In contrast, pure copper and copper containing stainless steel showed very significant antiviral properties. In particular, the 20% copper content of stainless steel can significantly reduce the living novel Coronavirus on its surface by 99.75% and 99.99% in 3 hours and 6 hours respectively, showing strong novel coronavirus resistance.

Because the high copper content stainless steel is prepared in a powder metallurgical manner, it is not affected by surface wear of the material and can maintain novel coronavirus resistant properties over a long period of time, Huang said.

It is very important to grasp the copper content in stainless steel from antibacterial to antiviral

In fact, long before the development of novel coronavirus resistant stainless steel, antibacterial stainless steel was widely available and industrial production began early, also with the addition of copper and silver.

Yang Ke, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Metal Research, pointed out that copper and silver have been recognized as excellent antibacterial materials in the industry, including escherichia coli and other common pathogens have excellent resistance. For example, copper content of only 5% antibacterial stainless steel, it has 99% antibacterial rate. Because dense copper-rich precipitates remain permanently in the stainless steel matrix, they produce long-lasting antibacterial effects. Silver is more antibacterial, as long as 0.3% of silver added to the stainless steel matrix, can produce a strong antibacterial effect. However, for antibacterial stainless steel to achieve novel coronavirus resistant effect, the copper content in it needs to be increased.

Stainless steel as an iron based alloy, based on iron, nickel, chromium and other elements will be added in the production process to enhance its performance. If blindly adding a large amount of copper, will make its basic properties change, resulting in it no longer has the characteristics of stainless steel, can not be large-scale application. Yang Ke said that the production of antiviral stainless steel, its biggest challenge lies in how to add a sufficient amount of antiviral elements at the same time, and do not change the core performance of stainless steel.

Although copper is one of the core elements of stainless steel, excessive addition will seriously affect the core properties of stainless steel. Yang Ke told reporters that the hot working and forging process of steel needs to be carried out at a high temperature of about 1200℃, while the melting point of copper itself is about 1080℃. Too much copper will lead to poor forging property of steel during hot working, and the phenomenon of “copper brittleness” in general sense.

In order to avoid “copper brittle” phenomenon, at the same time to ensure that the content of enough anti-virus effect of the copper, researchers switch to physical gas deposition, cold spraying, ion injection and other methods, for stainless steel coated with a layer of anti-virus coating. However, the coating produced by these methods, the thickness is less than 1 mm, and it is easy to be worn leading to a significant decline in its antiviral performance, so this kind of stainless steel material can not achieve long-term antiviral effect, does not have the value of large-scale application.

Huang mingxin’s team adopted the powder metallurgy process to increase the copper content in stainless steel to 20%, and obtained stainless steel with novel coronavirus resistant characteristics. According to Yang ke, THE method of powder metallurgy is to press the metal powder in a mold under high pressure, and then sintering it at a higher temperature. The high copper content stainless steel manufactured by this method not only does not appear “copper brittle” phenomenon, but also its copper-rich precipitate is not only distributed on the surface, but evenly distributed throughout the metal products, so even the surface wear of the products does not affect its antiviral effect.

Market space is still to be excavated to expand the scale of industrialization from two aspects

Yang Ke introduced, although the experimental effect is significant, but antiviral stainless steel to form large-scale, industrialization, there is still a long way to go. Even if the current industrial production has been very mature antibacterial stainless steel, it still has a large market space to be excavated.

“One company we work with produced and sold 5,000 tons of antibacterial stainless steel in 2020.” Yang Ke said that the antibacterial stainless steel industry has a relatively large scale, and the formation of the relevant industry standards. At the end of 2020, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has officially released the “copper containing antibacterial stainless steel” industry standard YB/T 4171-2020, covering the ordering content, technical requirements, test methods, inspection rules and other aspects of copper containing antibacterial stainless steel series. But at present antibacterial stainless steel is still mainly used in the production of tableware and kitchenware in the food and beverage field, such as antibacterial stainless steel chopsticks, kitchen knives, and the consumer market is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, the application scale is still small, the use of the scene is relatively single.

Yang Ke also pointed out that the powder metallurgy method used in the production of antiviral stainless steel, complicated process, high cost, can not become the mainstream production mode, and too much copper element will also make stainless steel corrosion resistance decline, so that it can not be used to produce high-end products, to a certain extent limited its application scenarios.

Yang Ke believes that although the research results are still some time away from large-scale application, but it opens a new window, so that the role of copper in stainless steel materials is more obvious, and gives new possibilities for stainless steel materials. “Our country’s antibacterial stainless steel production technology is the world’s leading, antibacterial stainless steel can have more applications in the future, among which the application of anti-infection in medical devices is the most promising.”

At present, Yang Ke and others are also working with Shenzhen Metro to develop handles and railings made of antibacterial stainless steel. He believes that in the future, in order to achieve the large-scale application of antibacterial and antiviral stainless steel, we should also make efforts in two aspects. One is to find suitable application scenarios in the application end, such as the construction of a model room with antibacterial stainless steel in the hospital, and play a demonstration effect. On the other hand, basic research should be strengthened. At present, the mechanism of copper ion antibacterial and antiviral action is still not clear, all kinds of theories have their own school, there is no unified, widely persuasive mechanism of action, to a certain extent, restrict the development of antibacterial and antiviral stainless steel.

The year 2021 has passed.

But we’re still living with the virus.

Although the novel Coronavirus pandemic continues, the reality is that humanity has been living with viruses for hundreds of years for a very long time without finding a suitable solution.

HIV, for example, is still on the rise every year, according to research by related agencies. By the end of last year, China’s HIV infection, has exceeded 1,053,000. The cumulative death toll, more than 351,000.

Even if they survive and live with the virus, those infected still face discrimination and human rights abuses.

Infected people may be around us, they hesitate, confused, at a loss, their life story is worth listening to us, their life is worth our attention to care.

This microscopic story will take you to an infected person, from diagnosis to trying to accept himself, his journey is worth reflecting on ourselves.

Here’s the real story about him:

Intruding into your body
Xiao Shuguang got the express from downstairs, just returned home and hid in his room.

He carefully unwrapped the package and took out two white kits. The cap is then removed to reveal the sharp needle.

There was a vague unease in his mind, and the needle used today seemed a little provocative.

Xiao Shuguang has no need to read the package attached to the product instructions, because these operations for him, already well.

First, he pricked his thumb with the needle, and a spot of blood came out, and then it grew; The second step is to squeeze the blood into the kit while blood outflow increases. The third step is to drop dilution into the blood and wait nervously for the results.

These steps are easy and can be done in a matter of minutes.

Xiao Shuguang has done such detection more than once, every time the moment of broken fingers, he will be in the heart of his countless slap in the face, warning their life can not be wanton.

However, each time the result was negative, he would forget the warning he had given himself 30 minutes earlier.

Today’s 30 minutes are just as long.

He placed the kits on another table and played a computer game to distract himself.

The kit on the far left is used to test for syphilis, and the red line in the C area shows up quickly, while the T area shows no change.

Xiao Shuguang in the game, subconsciously glance at the eye, thought the left result should be negative this time.

“He thought, and went on to fight with others in the game.

At this point, the T zone on the far right, a red line slowly emerges. And then slowly, the C and T regions, the two red lines appear together brightly.

Xiao Shuguang play a game, to check the results. One line on the left, pass. But the two lines on the right suddenly force their way into the eye.

Xiao Shuguang’s heart suddenly surprised, as if for a while, stopped beating.

He was terrified, and electricity ran up his spine to his skull. Finally came back and confirmed the result again.

The lines remained there, standing out against the white background.

Figure | two red lines represent test positive for HIV

This also means that Xiao Shuguang is likely to be infected with HIV.

Xiao Shuguang panic.

He suddenly remembered the old saying that one could walk by the river without getting his shoes wet. He always read all kinds of news about AIDS and the living conditions of AIDS patients on the Internet, but he did not expect that he became a part of it.

The invisible Person in a Marriage
Xiao Shuguang is not satisfied with his marriage.

Before marriage, Xiao Shuguang is gentle and generous to his wife’s impression. After marriage, the wife during pregnancy, as if changed a person, irritable, capricious.

Xiao Shuguang just began to think that his wife is pregnant, postpartum should be better. However, after giving birth to the child, his wife is still like this, lukewarm to him, sometimes a little trivial things, also want to develop to the point of fighting.

She even let Xiao Shuguang sleep to the second bedroom, with the baby sleep in the master bedroom. After marriage only about a year and a half, Xiao Shuguang and his wife did not have sexual life.

The incident slowly stirred up conflict between the two men.

One night, Xiao Shuguang busy after work on entertainment, a body to return home. Wife and baby are asleep.

Xiao Shuguang did not return to his second bedroom, he came to the master bedroom, wake up his wife, want to sleep with her. His wife smelled pungent alcohol, without saying anything else, kicked Xiao Shuguang to the ground.

He nearly broke his back and went to the hospital overnight for a check-up. Since then, Xiao Shuguang dare not touch his wife’s body.

Xiao Shuguang has a group of friends from childhood to play, they laugh at him is widowed man, is only with the five fingers of the girl’s life man.

There is a small, teach Xiao Shuguang download city dating software, let him know some heterosexual friends.

Xiao Shuguang just began to play, no one looked for him to chat. He takes the initiative to talk to others, and after a word or two, the conversation dies down. When I was young, I taught him some chatting skills, such as asking each other to dine in a fancy restaurant and giving each other luxuries.

Xiao Shuguang although nearly middle-aged, no small fresh meat face, but tall and burly, so promised to meet with him the girl is not a few.

This software is xiao Shuguang more play more familiar, almost every month will carry his wife, secretly date with the person.

In this way, the virus sneaked into his life.

In the CDC to get positive recheck results, Xiao Shuguang felt his marriage in jeopardy. This feeling, when his wife quarreled with him, cold war, and even began to domestic violence against him, he had never had.

His wife’s heart may have no love for him, but he knows that his wife can not leave him, she needs a man to support the family.

But in the face of a life-and-death virus, this strong link has become fragile, and could even fall apart.

Xiao Shuguang did not dare to tell his wife that he was infected with the virus, he was looking for the appropriate time to do an explanation.

He began to worry that his wife and children might be infected. Considering that he has not had sex with his wife for a long time, the probability of infection to her is not big.

But he also thought, after all, two people living together, it is inevitable that there will be some contact wounds, blood and other infections.

He found a physical examination agency online, bought two packages that included HIV tests and coaxed his wife and children into getting checkups.

Fortunately, they were not infected.

Since then, Xiao Shuguang paid more attention to it. He bought utensils, toothbrushes and towels for his own use. After each brush, the toothbrush is hidden in the secondary drawer; Eat a meal, oneself bowl chopsticks take toilet alone wash.

Xiao Shuguang has done all this abnormal behavior explanation, waiting for his wife to take the initiative to ask. His wife, however, took no notice of his behaviour, asked no questions, and let him do whatever he did.

As long as I pay my salary on time every month, I don’t care about anything else.

That day, from the CENTER for Disease control and prevention, Xiao Shuguang is vaguely aware that his life will be turned upside down.

Become A treasure
At 10 a.m., the phone on my desk went off.

Xiao Shuguang press off the alarm, carrying a bag of tissues, go to the bathroom on time, colleagues laugh at him, he said he is now every day fixed point toilet.

What we do not know is that this is Xiao Shuguang in acting. He went to the bathroom, not to the bathroom at all, but to take his medicine.

AIDS drugs need to be taken regularly every day. He was afraid that his colleagues would be discriminated against if they knew he was taking the drug, and in order to keep his job, he had to take the drug secretly.

Figure | shu-guang xiao using drugs

Lamivudine, tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, Tefcon… These medicaments vocabulary, before xiao Shuguang is infected, it is strange to him.

Since his diagnosis, these pills have become an essential part of his daily life.

Xiao Shuguang added A group, group named “A treasure big family”, A treasure meaning, is infected with AIDS virus.

He just entered this group, see this group name, feel funny and sad.

Group friends chat in the group every day, talking about all kinds of life details, if it were not for a few volunteers from time to time, urging everyone to take medicine, otherwise it would really have the illusion that people here are no different from normal and healthy people.

The kindred gathered here as if they were warming each other around a bonfire. Xiao Shuguang gradually came out of the lost, he took medicine on time every day, regularly check the body, and strive to make life as before.

However, after joining A treasure group 3 months, A thing that happens in the group, let Xiao Shuguang’s body and mind be hit again.

There used to be A treasure in the group, who was very active every day, telling jokes and Posting jokes. Suddenly, for A period of time, this person did not speak in the group for A long time.

Someone remembered and asked the volunteer if the person was too busy with work to come and chat recently. Volunteers said the man had a sudden illness and was in hospital.

Xiao Shuguang realized that the virus in his body, like a time bomb, there is always the explosion of that day.

Although many experts say that if you take medicine regularly, you will live as long as normal people. However, this kind of herd immunity is low, and the probability of suffering from various diseases is higher than normal people.

Taking a pill is known in the community as “eating sugar,” and a pill is a candy. Since “eat sugar”, plus group friends this emergency, let Xiao Shuguang cherish his body more.

He deleted the dating app, quit smoking and drinking, ate and slept regularly. Once a month, the group meets to eat and talk.

This kind of quiet life, Xiao Shuguang seems to feel very satisfied.

But occasionally he would wake up from a dream that his life had come to an end without warning, without even time to say goodbye to his family, children and friends.

Xiao Shuguang takes a bath every day, looking at his body, will produce a wonderful strangeness.

He felt that after his diagnosis, his body was no longer completely controlled by himself, and part of his body sovereignty was controlled by the virus.

Every day after infection, Xiao Shuguang is learning to coexist with the virus.

Physical examination, break through the psychological line
Because take medicine on time, check on time for the sake of Xiao Shuguang and ordinary people have no difference, do not see that he is HIV infected.

Xiao Shuguang in the company as usual meetings, training, business trips to talk about customers. In several meetings, the alarm of his mobile phone rang on time, and he used the excuse to go to the bathroom, but actually he went to take medicine, which made his colleagues at the meeting a little confused.

Xiao Shuguang in charge of the rank and ability to work, let him in the company like a duck in water. Therefore, the meeting encountered such things, everyone also smiled in the past, no one care.

The boss told Xiao Shuguang at the beginning of the year, the end of the year will promote him to do vice president, annual salary rose 30%. Turn in the end of the year, Xiao Shuguang secretly waiting for the boss to inform him of the promotion of the news.

However, before this, Xiao Shuguang also had to pass a pass, that is the unit of the year-end physical examination.

Xiao Shuguang’s company, every year for each employee to provide a health benefits. In theory, employees have the right to go for a medical check-up or not. However, in this company, every employee must take the company’s annual physical examination.

Xiao Shuguang as a middle-level executive, he certainly knows the reason. On the surface, the company is concerned about the health of its employees, but the boss is afraid of sudden death during work and he can’t afford such costs.

The boss needs a healthy crew to fight for him.

Therefore, a batch of optimization will be made for employees who fail the physical examination combined with the annual performance appraisal.

Xiao Shuguang in A treasure group to say their own this problem, I hope to have A group of friends to help answer it, A trick. For Xiao Shuguang this problem, we discussed very warmly in the group, out of a lot of ideas.

Some let him find someone to replace the physical examination, some let him find an excuse to go on a business trip, some let him ask whether the physical examination should check HIV, if not, it should have little impact.

But he found that the only thing he was not advised to do was talk to the company. He knew that if he did, he would be setting himself up for a dead end.

Xiao Shuguang specially chose a noon, please be in charge of employee welfare HR lunch.

At the dinner table, Xiao Shuguang said indirectly that his recent sleep is not very good, asked her this medical examination can detect the quality of sleep, what are the projects.

HR and pan out, Xiao Shuguang breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately this physical examination did not check HIV this one.

To the unified physical examination of the morning, Xiao Shuguang heartbeat acceleration, uneasy. This kind of jumpy feeling is exactly the same as that time I took the kit to do the test and then diagnosed.

He was at the hospital gate, afraid to step in. He couldn’t help but imagine the doctor taking his blood, getting screened for HIV, and then HR informing the whole company of the results, making him the target of public criticism.

He does not want to be different, do not want to be spurned by others, more do not want to become the eyes of others “walking virus”.

Xiao Shuguang, gave up the physical examination.

Find an exit in life
Xiao Shuguang submitted a letter of resignation news spread like wildfire.

We are very surprised, because Xiao Shuguang is not only a six-year old employee here, and he is about to be promoted.

Xiao Shuguang to appease subordinates, said his family something, need more time to accompany the family.

However, after xiao Shuguang leaves office two months, his wife also put forward a divorce. Because Xiao Shuguang can not pay wages on time, he stayed in the home, it means that quarrel fighting, so not conducive to the growth of children.

Moreover, the virus in his body is not only a threat to himself, but also a threat to his wife and children.

Xiao Shuguang realized that he had no reason to stay in this home. It’s time for him. to leave.

In April 2021, Xiao Shuguang returned to single life.

The children and house were given to his wife, and he rented a cheap house outside. Relying on the contacts accumulated in the workplace, he took over some projects to do at home. He paid his wife’s living expenses every month, paid the rent, bought some food and daily necessities, and saved some money.

One night, Xiao Shuguang woke up again from a dream.

He suddenly felt afraid, he felt at this moment, is lying in the rental house of his own, jobless like himself, no friends and relatives of their own, such a life seems to have been completely controlled by the virus, life has been prematurely declared a failure, he seems to be a living dead.

However, when the sunshine of the second day scatter into the room again, Xiao Shuguang eats next to be called “candy” in the bell, he feels the life ahead is still full of hope again.

Afterword.
Interview Xiao Shuguang, is carried out at the dinner table.

When the waiter dishes on the table, Xiao Shuguang from the bag took out a pair of chopsticks, this let me very surprised.

Ask him why, and he says it’s safe for others. I said I wasn’t afraid. I knew the virus could only be transmitted by blood, not by eating together.

Xiao Shuguang helpless smile said, not everyone like you think so.

Xiao Shuguang jing I a glass of water, water on behalf of wine, said thank you.

Recently, just by the U.S. media exposure because of the new champions league actual deaths or 6 million shortly after the news, India the outbreak and spread bad news: super virus “Mick Dijon” or will hit India and endanger the country’s 1.3 billion people, in the seemingly stable control outbreak a few months later, nearly 20000 people infected overnight rapid spread is also appeared again.

India in the face of the pandemic
In fact, there has been skepticism about just how serious the current outbreak is in India, and about the various figures released by the government. After all, by December 2021, India will have received only 1.25 billion doses of vaccine, which, on average, is less than one dose per person for the current population, and the vaccination rate is very low. Even in a country with a smaller population, more than a third of its population vaccinated, and a basic health care system and sanitation far better than India’s, the epidemic is still raging, and on the last day of 2021, the number of new cases in a single day topped 595,000, reaching 600,000.

In contrast, India’s daily number of new COVID-19 cases has been hovering around 10,000 since November last year. This is not a true achievement in fighting the virus, but rather, as some Western politicians say, “No testing, no COVID-19”. Since India’s second wave inexplicably ended on paper, there has been remarkably little mass screening in the country, with almost all confirmed cases coming from patients who felt unwell and came forward to seek medical care. But in India, where there is a huge gap between rich and poor, modern health care is out of reach for the vast majority of the underprivileged, who, if they fall into this trap, are likely to suffer unbeknown ailments until they recover on their own or die miserably.

Indian people get vaccinated
That is why many people’s first reaction to omicron’s emergence as it wreaked havoc around the world was that India, a country of 1.3 billion people, was in real danger this time. To be sure, a range of statistics and preliminary studies by medical professionals around the world suggest that Omicron is milder in symptoms than previous COVID-19 variants, which objectively means it is less lethal. However, milder or even less obvious symptoms mean those diagnosed are more likely to go unnoticed and create more chains of infection.

Think about what happens when enough people get infected and a significant number of them develop symptoms that may not be fatal but still require medical attention. People are flocking to seek help from their recent medical places, as a result, India is inherently fragile foundation medical system, will be “breakdown” moments: new patients use most of the human and material, let the other injuries to personnel is difficult to get timely treatment, even people with chronic diseases, may also be unable to go to a doctor and deterioration of the situation facing. At the end of the day, India’s authorities will either lie flat and let the virus spread in the country, spawning even deadlier variants, or watch more deaths from the chaos of the health system than from the Novel Coronavirus itself.

The graph is modi
Is not too late, now, Mr Modi government not to confront the opportunity, but you must face up to the present situation, seeking truth from facts, to make a complete and accurate assessment domestic outbreak, and then as a response to the first wave, the isolation, isolation, the city seal is sealed city, do our best to reduce the population flow, and speed up the improved compressive capacity of medical institutions, Increase vaccination coverage. If necessary, we should put aside our pride and actively seek international assistance. In short, if Omicron is ignored, the consequences for India may well be disaster in the true sense.

The novel Coronavirus vaccine has become our weapon against infection. However, those who are in the special physiological state of preparing for pregnancy, pregnancy and lactation will inevitably have some doubts. Can we get novel coronavirus vaccine?

It can be inoculated during pregnancy

Novel Coronavirus vaccine?

Generally speaking, if you are infected with a pathogen after pregnancy, it is possible to bring bad consequences for yourself and your baby. But if you can get the vaccine before you become pregnant, you can certainly reduce the risk of infection. At present, the novel coronavirus vaccines inoculated in China are mainly inactivated virus vaccines, adenovirus vector vaccines and recombinant subunit vaccines. All of these three vaccines have only antigenicity but no infectious activity, so it is safe to prepare indirect novel coronavirus vaccines during pregnancy

After the novel Coronavirus vaccine

How long can you get pregnant?

It is important to note that the Current Technical Guide to Novel Coronavirus vaccination does not list women who are pregnant as contraindicated for novel Coronavirus vaccination, nor does it state that there must be an adequate interval of time between vaccination in order to become pregnant. Therefore, we believe that pregnancy can be prepared directly with novel Coronavirus vaccine without delaying pregnancy.

After the Novel Coronavirus vaccine

Just discovered pregnant how to do?

Don’t panic. Currently available follow-up data have not found an increased risk for pregnant mothers and their babies following novel Coronavirus vaccine, and there is no specific way to prevent this risk. Pregnancy can continue as long as the pregnancy is checked and followed up as required by the doctor. For pregnant women who are pregnant only after receiving the first dose of vaccine, they should not be anxious and just postpone the second dose of vaccine.

Can pregnant women receive the Novel Coronavirus vaccine?

Vaccination is not recommended. The novel Coronavirus Vaccine Technical Guide currently lists pregnant women as contraindicated.

Infected with novel Coronavirus after pregnancy

What should I do?

In case of Novel Coronavirus infection, this will need to be referred to the doctor. Pregnant mothers should have confidence, the doctor will certainly take into account the safety of the baby under the premise of ensuring the safety of pregnant mothers, will try to choose harmless or less influential drugs for the baby, pregnant mothers just need to relax, eat, drink, rest, and cooperate with the doctor for treatment.

After novel Coronavirus vaccine in lactating females

Can I continue breastfeeding?

There are currently no clinical data confirming the effect of novel Coronavirus vaccine on babies in lactating women. Therefore, based on the understanding of vaccine safety, lactating women (e.g., medical personnel, etc.) at high risk of novel Coronavirus infection are recommended to be vaccinated. We also know that breastfeeding is very important for the nutrition and health of the baby, so we recommend that breastfeeding women receiving the Novel Coronavirus vaccine continue to breastfeed their baby.

After infection with novel Coronavirus

Can I breastfeed?

Although the presence of Novel Coronavirus in the milk of pregnant women with Novel Coronavirus pneumonia has not yet been detected, due to the limited sample size, caution should be taken. In the absence of medical indications, mothers with suspected or confirmed Novel Coronavirus pneumonia need not suppress lactation in order to continue breastfeeding after recovery. But consider temporarily isolating the mother and baby to avoid close contact with the infected baby.

Novel Coronavirus vaccines for us

Prevention and control of COVID-19

Provides important protection

We need to use the right one

Look at it scientifically

Last night, hundreds of meters away from a community came to a number of buses, overnight the entire building of residents transferred to the field concentrated isolation.

As announced this morning, 174 new local cases were reported in Xi ‘an on December 31, exceeding 150 for seven consecutive days. So far, the number of confirmed cases in Xi ‘an has reached 1,451 since December 9.

Many relatives and friends from other provinces have asked me to pay attention to protection in recent days. They have also seen online that it is difficult to buy food in Xi ‘an during the epidemic, so they are concerned about my meals. Thank you

Thanks to the strong sense of hardship of my leadership, the rice, flour, oil and meat at home have been fully prepared. Vegetables also received the love package from Yanta district yesterday, which weighs 20 catties. It is said that this batch of dishes is gansu aid come over, changan South Road Zhuque street this area of the containment of the community are similar.

In contrast, some young migrant workers who are used to take-out meals and small restaurants may face greater difficulties due to lack of preparation or even a stove in their house and should be given more help. But judging from the 100 or 200 young people in my circle of friends, it’s not too serious. At least, not as “very horrible” as some friends in other provinces thought.

Looking at some recent international news reports, omicron virus is rapidly replacing Delta around the world and causing a tsunami of cases in Europe and the United States: 200,000 cases per day in France, 500,000 cases per day in the United States. So, are people in these countries living horrible lives?

Mr. Qiao Mu, who taught at Beijing Foreign Studies University in Shaanxi province, later left the United States. In 2020, his diary of the EPIDEMIC in the United States won much attention. He wrote recently:

Around Christmas, the number of people infected with COVID-19 in the United States increased dramatically due to Omicron. The vast majority of those who got the vaccine, regardless of whether they got a booster shot, had mild symptoms that cleared up after three days. … Almost the whole town was vaccinated, and a lot of people were infected, but they all cleared up, just like a common cold.

This new change, in which the vast majority of people heal themselves without crowding out medical institutions, is worth noting because it would have a much smaller impact on the normal functioning of the economy and would not require a lockdown (which is certainly not possible in other countries like China).

So, the latest us statistics show that while novel coronavirus cases (seven-day average) have increased by 181% in the last two weeks, deaths have dropped by 5%, and novel coronavirus deaths are decreasing rapidly (there are still more than 1000 deaths per day on average, almost all of them anti-vindication).

Take another look at xi ‘an. We are still dealing with the more virulent Delta. The 174 new cases reported today on the 31st were all mild cases, followed by 161 cases reported on the 30th and 155 cases reported on the 29th. According to the report on the afternoon of December 31, among all confirmed cases in Xi ‘an, there was no fatal case, 1 case was in critical condition, 5 cases were severe, and the rest were mild or ordinary.

That case is a 90-year-old man in critical condition. I do not know whether he has been vaccinated or has any other diseases. I wish the old man can get through this and recover as soon as possible.

I hope and believe that there will probably be no deaths and most people will recover without serious sequelae. After all, the vaccination rate of adults in Xi ‘an is more than 98%, and the vaccination rate of primary and secondary school students and kindergarten children is also very high. We uphold the concept of “people first, life first” to treat every patient.

And in the future, even if there are more domestic cases caused by people entering the country, they will become omicron, which is less deadly and causes disease. Since omicron is mainly concentrated in the nose and throat and has less impact on the lungs, “Novel Coronavirus remains and COVID-19 disappears” is not out of the question.

At that time, there is absolutely no need to shut down megacities with a population of 10 million, hard quarantine, vaccines, booster shots will allow the majority of patients to recover from mild illness. In addition, the large-scale closure of the city’s secondary harm can not be ignored: enterprises operating difficulties or even bankruptcy, residents’ income sharply reduced or even unemployment, economic and people’s livelihood pressure……