Physicians said that a large number of people may cause simultaneous outbreaks of pneumonia and influenza in Wuhan, which will lead to a more serious strain on children's emergency and severe medical care.

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[Health Channel/Comprehensive Report] The Spring Festival holiday is approaching, will the Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) and influenza outbreaks occur at the same time due to the large number of people?

The doctor said that he hoped not, because at present, it is a bit tight to deal with the Wuhan pneumonia virus in children's emergency department. If influenza is added, the degree of strain on children's emergency and severe medical care will be even more serious.

Xie Zongxue, director of the Pediatric Emergency Department of the Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen Medical University, posted a post on the Facebook fan page "Dr. E Pediatric Emergency Room Diary" that although the number of confirmed cases of pneumonia in Wuhan has gradually declined in the past few days, the actual clinical feeling is that they need to stay in hospital Observation, or hospitalization of pediatric patients increased.

In addition, although the influenza epidemic has warmed up slightly, there is no sign of a major outbreak for the time being. On the contrary, the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic has increased significantly after the New Year's Eve in 2023. This may be due to the high influenza vaccination rate and high mask wearing rate, which suppressed the prevalence of influenza virus. .

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In addition, the command center recently pointed out that according to the latest monitoring data, the proportion of severe cases over the age of 65 increases with age, and more than 90% of the death cases have a potential medical history, and most of them are elderly people. not tall.

Because according to statistics, more than 20% of the elderly over the age of 65 have not received the third dose of vaccine, the second booster vaccination rate is only 44.7%, and the third booster vaccination rate is only 9.9%.

The command center reminds that infants, children, adolescents and the elderly over 6 months old who have not yet completed the basic dose should be vaccinated quickly; those who have completed the basic target over the age of 6 and have not received 1 dose of bivalent BA.4/5 next-generation vaccine, it is recommended to add it Vaccine to improve protection; In addition, children aged 5 to under 6 are recommended to receive supplementary doses of BNT monovalent vaccine.

The command center reminds that infants, children, teenagers and the elderly who have not completed the basic dose and are over 6 months old are vaccinated quickly.

(Provided by Command Center)

Inoculation status of each dose of Wuhan pneumonia vaccine.

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