Chinese epidemic prevention expert Zhang Wenhong posted on his personal Weibo yesterday (January 13) that the world is currently in a period of extremely high risk of the epidemic, and China is also facing a period of high risk of the epidemic. “Walking on thin ice, waiting for the day”. The number of imported cases in Shanghai’s COVID-19 wards has also surpassed its all-time high.
The WHO issued an opinion on January 7 stating that the incidence of community transmission of Omicron is very high, and that a significant increase in hospitalizations has occurred in various countries and will increase.
Zhang Wenhong pointed out that compared with the CCP virus variant Delta, the new variant of Omicron spreads faster and is more insidious. It is replacing Delta without any suspense, and has lethality that cannot be ignored. With Omicron transmission expected to rapidly increase the number of cases, the pressure on health systems will increase significantly, overloading and dangerous for most countries with limited medical resources. It is imperative to ensure that the necessary health care resources are in place to deal with a possible surge in demand.
In response to some self-media claims that Omicron caused the “big flu”, Zhang Wenhong pointed out at a forum in Shanghai on the 8th that this statement lacks scientific basis.
Zhang Wenhong said that after studying medical images of people infected with Omicron, it was found that the mutant strain “will bite people”. “It can be said that Omicron won after fighting the immune system,” said Zhang Wenhong.
Zhang Wenhong also said: “If medical resources are not enough, Omicron will ‘bite’.”
The mutant strain of Omicron, first discovered in South Africa, has caused a new wave of outbreaks around the world. World Health Organization Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of new confirmed cases worldwide exceeded 15 million last week, the highest number since the outbreak.
Zhang Wenhong believes that the reason why Western countries dare to “break through” this wave of epidemics now mainly comes from the CCP virus vaccine.
Currently, the COVID-19 vaccination rate in the United States is close to 70%, and the third-dose vaccination rate is 22%; the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination rate is 80%, and the three-dose vaccination rate is over 50%.
Although the number of infections in these countries has risen, the fatality rate is very low, and there is no impact on the medical system.
Zhang Wenhong’s remarks caused the Internet to question the efficacy of China’s domestically produced vaccines. Some netizens said: “People’s vaccines are really effective, what about yours? It’s just the way of isolation and control, what difference does it make if you use vaccines or not.”
Last year, Zhang Wenhong was attacked by public opinion for advocating “coexistence with the virus”, and then changed his mind to support the official “clearing” policy. Later, the government and the media introduced a so-called “dynamic clearing” policy, which made many people unable to do it. Is it clear that this means a shift in official policy? Or a slight adjustment to the “zeroing” policy. Recently, there have been epidemics in Henan, Tianjin, Shenzhen and other places, and the CCP officials have resorted to very strict “clearing” blockade measures to prevent the spread of the CCP virus epidemic.
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