Since the outbreak of the epidemic in Taiwan, the number of serious illnesses has climbed to 500 in just half a month, with a serious illness rate of 11% and 47 deaths, mostly concentrated in the hardest-hit areas of Taipei City and New Taipei City. Taiwan’s top NTU Hospital President Wu Ming-hsien issued a plea for help on May 26, “Hospitals Need Help (hospitals need help)”, NTU will be converted to treat adults in the pediatric intensive care unit are not enough to use, it is also clear that Taiwan’s medical system has pulled the alarm.
Taiwan Epidemic Command Center Commander Chen Shih-chung announced on the 27th Taiwan single-day confirmed cases of 401 cases, “correction return” (due to screening administrative process traffic jam, resulting in time differences) number of 266 cases, the number of deaths reached 13 deaths, a new record high single day. The ages ranged from the 40s to the 70s, with the youngest woman in her 40s, who was admitted to a vaccination hotel on May 19 after taking the test, dying on the 25th.
Taiwan’s wave of the epidemic came fast and furious, and the National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei City, because of its proximity to the hardest-hit area of Wanhua, Taipei, admitted more than 100 confirmed patients and more than 20 seriously ill, the most in the country, and the intensive care wards were already full, and the children’s negative pressure intensive care ward had to be converted for the treatment of adult patients.
The president of NTU Hospital, Wu Ming-Hsien, pointed out in an article that although it is the hospital’s duty to save lives and help the injured, fighting against the epidemic is like combat, and the results can be imagined when there are no survivors to complete training. He stressed that as a first-line commander in the battlefield, he hoped that the command could come up with a solution as soon as possible, and that all friendly troops could work together with honesty and mutual trust.
The epidemic command center commander Chen Shizhong 27 in a regular press conference in response to Wu Mingxian’s plea for help, said President Wu Mingxian’s main point is that the admission of treatment can not be concentrated to only one, that can easily cause that hospital overload, the resulting sequelae are difficult for everyone to bear.
Chen Shizhong: “This time, Heping and NTU are relatively close to our hot zone, and in the past, ambulances were sent to the nearest location to make arrangements, so it was inevitable that more were sent to NTU. However, patients must be triaged. After our discussion, the overall ambulance transport to do appropriate diversion, so as to make the overall war effort to play better.”
Chen Shizhong also shouted to NTU, “Thanks for your hard work! But this is the overall fight against the epidemic, let the follow-up distribution do a good job, so that we all the various medical centers share responsibility.”
More than 500 people in Taiwan seriously ill Age is high, infected with British mutant strain
The epidemic command center expert convener Zhang Shangchun pointed out at a press conference on the 26th, from April 15 to May 26, Taiwan’s newly diagnosed cases have nearly 500 people seriously ill, the wave of the epidemic more than 60 years old infected people have chronic diseases, the disease process is progressing quickly, an average of 5 people have a person seriously ill. Among them, 357 people have severe pneumonia, 139 are close to respiratory failure, and 99 of the serious cases are currently on respirators. The overall rate of serious illness in this wave of local epidemic is about 11%, with the high age group of patients and the infection of the British variant being the two main possible causes.
The former infectious disease physician at NTU, Dr. Kong Xiangqi, told the station that serious illnesses will definitely be diagnosed in hospitals, and the infection will be very accurate when extrapolated from serious illnesses, rather than depending on our daily diagnosis, because the first daily diagnosis has the problem of “corrective regression”, and the second PCR test volume can be, and the upper limit of detection in Taiwan is 26,000 cases now, and it is impossible to do more than that. It is impossible to do more tests, and many mild and asymptomatic cases cannot be fished out.
Taiwan’s daily screening volume of 26,000 cases still can not fish out mild and asymptomatic
Kong Xiangqi: “I think it’s really quite scary, only a week has been more than 300 cases of serious illness, can be extrapolated from the information in Japan, Japan is also a variant of the virus, I especially went to catch the number of confirmed cases in Japan in April, Japan PCR volume can be up, want to test can be tested, their denominator is closer to the real. The percentage of severe disease in Japan is about 3-5% like the UK. We caught 10%, so can you make the conclusion that the proportion of the British variant of the virus in Taiwan is particularly high?No, I don’t believe that, that is, we have not tested enough denominators.”
Kong Xiangqi explained that in the past year, the British virus into each country were caught off guard, only look at the absolute confirmed value may misjudge the severity of the community epidemic, so to see the PCR positive rate is more accurate. Especially the 7-day PCR positive rate, “0452 PCR positive rate represents two meanings, either your examination is not enough, or you really have a high prevalence rate, countries are supervised to see this data to be pressed to less than 5% before.”
Kong Xiangqi estimated that this wave of serious illness in Taiwan is high in age, with a serious illness rate of 5% to calculate, Taiwan this wave of at least 10,000 people or so diagnosed. The current number of confirmed cases in the command center is over 5,000, which means there are at least 5,000 asymptomatic patients still lurking in the community.
At the same time, the Central Epidemic Command Center confirmed that the first batch of 150,000 doses of Moderna vaccine will be shipped from Luxembourg in the early hours of May 28th, Taiwan time, and is scheduled to arrive in Taiwan on the afternoon of the 28th. The command center pointed out that Taiwan signed a contract with Moderna to supply 5.05 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine on Feb. 8.
Taiwan’s epidemic prevention monitoring 600,000 “high-risk groups” cell phone web browsing
However, at the beginning of the outbreak of the disease in Taiwan, the means of prevention and control caused controversy. According to exclusive documents obtained by Taiwan media, Yi Media disclosed that 600,000 cellular newsletters were sent “indiscriminately” to people with a Wanhua footprint, and telecommunication companies were asked to help identify “high-risk groups of Wanhua” that fit the definition of the command center and make health insurance card notations. Even the foreigners’ “cell phone web browsing” records were not spared. In the premise that the legal source of data retrieval is unknown and the public is not informed, the command center’s practice has aroused controversy over the invasion of privacy.
The government’s decision to use the “mobile phone” to access the records of foreign workers in the Wanhua district has caused controversy.
The government has been reminded of the need to do a good job in the legal system, and yesterday’s official document was found to be a good one. Especially browse the footprinters cell phone page, this is really too exaggerated!”
Shi Yixiang refers to the “special 7” is, “the current pneumonia prevention special regulations, Article 7” provisions, “the central epidemic command center commander for the prevention and control of the epidemic needs to implement the necessary contingency treatment or measures The “current special regulations on pneumonia” stipulate that “the commander of the central epidemic command center may implement necessary contingency measures or measures for the prevention and control of the epidemic. Recently, Taiwan’s opposition Era Force proposed an amendment to the law, arguing that the original regulation “has excessive blank authorization, does not expressly state that people restricted by personal freedom have the right to request court relief, and the implementation of entry and exit control, while lacking the corresponding supporting legal system, infringing on people’s right to family reunion.”
The Deputy Commander of the Epidemic Prevention Command Center, Chen Zongyan, responded to related questions by saying, “Like the past foreign travel notes, the main purpose is to remind medical institutions so that physician staff can make better diagnosis and treatment.” Chen Zongyan also stressed that this is a very important part of the epidemic prevention, I hope that all sectors do not misunderstand.
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