If we assume an average infection rate of 10%, London has a population of 6 million, so there are at least hundreds of thousands of people who are sick.
If the "Greater London Area" is included, the number of infections will increase exponentially.
Based on an average mortality rate of 0.5, the number of people who died from influenza complications in London alone from the beginning to the end of the flu may have exceeded tens of thousands, especially the elderly.
This number is extremely frightening and will seriously affect the credibility and votes of the government.
The reason why the English government cooperated so well this time was, on the one hand, that GlaxoSmithKline had done a good job in public relations.
On the other hand, we also want to show the voters how hard we are working. We even invited doctors from China and asked for help from the United States. We have tried our best.
Wellington Hospital has specially prepared an outpatient building as an "influenza treatment area".
Senior doctors from China and Hong Kong opened 25 clinics at the same time, and the remaining 15 were on standby, ready to provide support at any time.
The employees of Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Company prepared all the medicines and gave it their all.
Doctors and nurses from Wellington Hospital served as assistants and helped the Chinese doctors throughout the process. After all, the doctors from China had to start work without even adjusting to the jet lag, and their work was very hard.
Moreover, the hospital procedures and languages of the two countries are different.
So generally each clinic is staffed by a Chinese doctor, a doctor from Wellington Hospital, two members of the medical observation team from various countries, and an interpreter.
Ren Yuanfei sat in a hospital in a foreign country, becoming the core of the entire clinic, but he still felt a little dazed.
You have to know that in such a large international hospital, it is very difficult to be a doctor, let alone come for training. Now the situation has really changed.
The outpatient clinic officially begins.
It has been reported in the newspapers a long time ago that there will be a free flu clinic this week. Doctors from mainland China and Hong Kong will bring special flu medicine and treat the English for free for a week.
Now that there is this opportunity for free treatment, there are already crowds of people outside the hospital. No matter which country or city, the poor always make up the majority.
Rich people are not interested in queuing up and look down on Chinese doctors, but poor people will not miss such a good opportunity.
You need to queue up to make an appointment to see a doctor at a public hospital abroad.
You clearly fell ill on the 1st and made an appointment on the same day, but it might not be their turn to see you until the 10th. By then, you might have either recovered or died.
Because public hospitals are already overcrowded with influenza patients, the situation is on the verge of collapse.
The problem is that even if it’s your turn in line, there’s no specific medicine. At most, you’ll be given a few fever-reducing pills and told to go back and fend for yourself, spending your whole life with righteousness.
The first patient Ren Yuanfei met was a middle-aged man.
The clinical manifestations are mainly systemic poisoning symptoms such as high fever, fatigue, headache, cough, and muscle aches all over the body, while respiratory symptoms are relatively mild.
This is a typical symptom of influenza, but Ren Yuanfei was still cautious. He performed a very careful physical examination on the patient and wrote the first prescription after confirming that the patient's heart and lung functions were good.
Get a flu test first.
Oseltamivir is indeed a miracle drug, but this miracle drug has a limitation: it is only effective against "influenza" and not against the common cold.
Therefore, before taking any medication, laboratory tests must be performed. Western medicine attaches great importance to "evidence" and one cannot make random guesses or rough estimates.
Influenza detection methods include four types: viral nucleic acid detection, viral culture and isolation, antigen detection, and serological detection.
The first two are based on virus detection of respiratory specimens (nasal, throat swabs, sputum, nasopharyngeal or tracheal aspirates); the latter two are through immunological examinations.
Antigen and serological tests are relatively complicated and require a full range of instruments. Although Chen Xia has them in the space hospital, he cannot take them out, as he will definitely not be able to explain them clearly when the time comes.
But viral nucleic acid testing is very convenient (just like the new coronavirus test). Take a nasopharyngeal swab and then drop it onto the "wiping paper".
One bar represents influenza A.
Two bars means influenza B. (Not pregnancy, cough cough.)
When these European and American doctors saw that Chinese researchers had even invented swabs for detecting influenza, they were amazed and gained more confidence in the legendary oseltamivir.
Because this shows that Chinese doctors, or the Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Company, have studied influenza very clearly, and insiders can tell at a glance that this is not a scam.
The test report came out immediately, with only one line, indicating influenza A.
Ren Yuanfei wrote a second prescription: Oseltamivir capsules, one at a time, twice a day, and acetaminophen tablets, to be taken as needed.
All of this is free of charge, and the difference in costs is borne entirely by Pumpkin Vine Company. These patients are naturally very grateful.
Officials from the National Health Service of England and some insurance companies nearby also widened their eyes.
Seeking medical treatment abroad is different from seeing a doctor in China. People abroad pay very little for themselves, and most of the medical expenses are usually covered by government welfare or insurance companies.
During this special period of influenza outbreak, relevant agencies need to evaluate the efficacy of oseltamivir, because it will be urgently included in the medical insurance list in a week.
In 25 outpatient clinics, doctors Hua Guo and Xiang Jiang showed their spirit of not fearing hard work. At the end of the day, it was originally expected that each doctor would see an average of 200 patients.
That’s 5,000 patients, or outpatient visits a week.
In fact, the number was far more than this later, because foreign hospitals only have emergency rooms at night and no "night clinics".
You say you have a cold, a headache, diarrhea, and a cough, and you want to go to the emergency room and see a doctor like you do in China, but that's not possible abroad.
They will say sorry to you, this is not an emergency, please make an appointment with the doctor the next day, they will not see you in the emergency room.
But the Chinese doctor came and brought a set of equipment from China, and continued the night clinic.
Because Chen Xia and Ren Yuanfei know that a larger patient base means more medical records, which can better reflect the true effectiveness of oseltamivir and better promote it in Europe and the United States.
In other words, the more solid the evidence is, the better. European and American countries attach great importance to procedures, especially the approval of drugs is very rigorous, and other doctors must be convinced.
The Medical Insurance Bureau and insurance companies must also be willing to pay. Without their support, it will be difficult to promote drugs.
And there is a large group of reporters waiting outside. These uncrowned kings are always watching and ready to publish the latest developments in newspapers around the world at any time.
As for journalists, haha, they have limited moral integrity and will find fault with you for no reason, so they must do their best to be perfect and leave people speechless.
But doctors in England and other European countries can't stand it anymore. What the hell? You work so hard during the day, and you want to continue at night?
The Chinese have Chinese Gongfu, but they don’t.
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