can be covered up, digested slowly, and the two sides are mixed, and the big things are reduced to the small ones. But once someone dies, the situation is different.
On February 9, the Ministry of Health began to express strong concern about the epidemic that originated in the gd region of our country, and sent an expert team led by the deputy minister to fly to Guangzhou on the afternoon of February 9 to help find the cause and guide the prevention and control work.
Starting from February 9, the main media in gd province began to report on the epidemic that they had previously avoided, suppressed and avoided talking about. In the face of panic in society and rumors flying everywhere, the provincial government even held a press conference to inform the people of the country about the SARS epidemic situation in the gd region:
as of 3 p.m. on February 10, a total of 305 cases of infection and deaths had been found 5 cases. Among them, there were 105 cases of infection among medical staff, and no one died. Among the 305 patients, 59 have recovered and been discharged. Those who have not been discharged have all received effective treatment and are in stable condition. The youngest person who died was a 10-year-old boy from Yangcheng, and the oldest was a 59-year-old man from Foshan.
Finally, the spokesperson concluded and emphasized that
among the tens of millions of people in Yangcheng, more than 300 people are infected with the disease is a very small proportion. “SARS” only occurs locally, and there are no reports of new cases in Heyuan, Zhongshan and other cities. The spokesman also explained that the reason for not announcing the situation before February was that most of the patients in Heyuan, Zhongshan and other places had recovered and improved after treatment, and did not get sick again. In order to avoid causing people to panic, they chose to remain silent.
Therefore, the conclusion is:
“SARS” is not an infectious disease serious enough to require statutory reporting, and the number of 305 cases is not too many. However, in the future, in view of the current chaos and panic in public opinion, regarding SARS, they will also promptly announce the epidemic situation to the people in accordance with the “Infectious Diseases Law”.
With the official explanation and endorsement, the news on the Internet was finally settled and confirmed. For a time, people across the country were in an uproar and were shocked at the same time. What the official wants to emphasize is that SARS is only a local infection. This disease is not a strong infectious disease. More than 10 million people were infected with 305 cases, an infection rate of 0.00003%. Only 10,000 people may be infected with three cases, and successively I was discharged from the hospital and healed, so it wasn’t as scary as the rumors said.
But what ordinary people interpreted from the official notification was a different picture:
First of all, given that Chinese officials report good news but not bad news, any number released by the official