Guangzhou took the lead in making major adjustments! Expert: It's time to cancel the 'nucleic acid for all staff'
Guangzhou, where the epidemic data has been running at a high level, is currently in the most difficult moment since the outbreak! And just on November 30, Guangzhou took the lead in making major adjustments and announced the lifting of temporary control!
At the same time, in order to do a good job in prevention and control scientifically and accurately, and further implement the twenty measures required by the State Council, Guangzhou has proposed more precise prevention and control measures, the most eye-catching of which is the scientific implementation of nucleic acid testing. Nucleic acid testing for key personnel is not allowed to expand the scope of nucleic acid testing. Generally, nucleic acid testing for all staff is not carried out according to administrative regions. Does this mean that it is time to cancel the "nucleic acid for all staff"?
Pros and cons of universal nucleic acid testing?
The data released by the state shows that making nucleic acid for the sake of doing nucleic acid will not only cause large-scale gatherings of people and cause the spread of the virus, but the practice in many places also obviously violates the original intention of implementing nucleic acid testing. At the beginning of the outbreak, the COVID-19 virus was highly invasive and had a high morbidity and fatality rate, but the transmission speed was relatively slow, and we knew very little about it. Isolation treatment has bought us precious time for later research and development of vaccines, vaccinations, and research and development of specific drugs. At the beginning of the epidemic, it is very necessary for the national nucleic acid to control the source of infection.
However, the pathogenicity of the popular Omicron virus this year has weakened, but the transmission speed is very fast. Measures such as 24-hour or 48-hour nucleic acid certificates in various places have been adopted in order to work and travel, so that people have to queue up at nucleic acid testing sites every day. Nucleic acid, the limitation of medical resources leads to a limited number of monitoring points, which often leads to the gathering of people. A positive patient may cause the surrounding people to be infected without knowing it. Therefore, nucleic acid testing is not only a waste of manpower and financial resources. Cause cluster infection, so at this stage, the harm outweighs the benefit.
When is the best time to cancel universal nucleic acid testing?
The COVID-19 virus has basically formed a herd immunity barrier across the country. It is time to turn time and energy to building an effective immune barrier and concentrate financial resources on vulnerable groups. Frequent large-scale acid testing not only seriously affects people's work and life, but also hinders people from seeing a doctor. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack to find the source of infection, which is a waste of money and money. Patients who really need medical treatment cannot enjoy medical treatment normally. what? Quickly discovering the source of infection, targeting control targets before the outbreak, and accurately controlling high-risk groups are what we should do most now. What we advocate is to cancel nucleic acid testing for all employees, not to cancel nucleic acid testing and use good steel wisely.
Summarize
Therefore, I would like to remind everyone that there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Nucleic acid testing is the gold standard for diagnosing COVID-19 infection, and it is still a very important method during the epidemic. How to comply with the 20 national epidemic prevention and control measures, continuously optimize the process and methods of nucleic acid testing, and ensure more precise prevention and control without affecting people's lives is the key. The author here proposes to gradually cancel "full staff nucleic acid" and implement "precision nucleic acid" in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic nationwide.
"People first" rather than "epidemic prevention first", Guangzhou City took the first step bravely, hoping that more provinces and cities can keep up with this pace, and continue to explore more accurate, high-quality, and efficient nucleic acid testing, and COVID-19 19 The adverse impact of epidemic prevention and control on the work and life of ordinary people is minimized!