Source｜CC Weekly(ID : Cancer-weekly)
Author｜Zhang Yujiao Tenured Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Head Image｜IC photo
1. The epidemic resurgence shows that it will become the new normal
It’s difficult in 2020, it’s hard to go to the sky?
Unexpectedly by many people, the new coronavirus COVID-19 has infected at least 8.7 million people worldwide and killed more than 460,000 people worldwide today. Some scholars expect that the number of infected people will reach more than 20 million this year, and the number of deaths will exceed 1 million. The virus epidemic center, from China in January and February this year, Europe in March and April, and now America in May and June, has swept across the eastern and western hemispheres in half a year.
It is foreseeable that COVID-19 will pass through South America in the fall and winter of this year, and it will spread again around the world, with the second wave of epidemic peaks in the world. Many people think that the disaster is over, but scholars at home and abroad are still worried. On May 5, I wrote an article in Phoenix Net\CC Weekly to warn that the epidemic will not disappear this year, and called for preparations for the second wave of outbreaks in autumn and winter. Unfortunately, after 56 days of COVID-19 cases returning to “zero”, on June 11, a sudden resurgence of the epidemic situation in the new market in Beijing. By 24:00 on June 20, Beijing had reported a total of 227 locally confirmed cases. The response level was raised to two levels again. The epidemic in Beijing instantly became the focus of world attention.
According to COVID-19’s highly infectious and dense nature (about 30% asymptomatic or mild symptoms), this potential recurrence should be