Chapter 269 It’s not a mask, it’s the flu
Zou Jinxing sat on the ground, holding his youngest son in his arms and his eldest daughter leaning on him, looking anxious.
His wife Jin Xiaoting was leaning against the wall, holding her second daughter in her arms. The family of five looked like beggars, with no image at all.
A gust of wind blew, rolling up countless fallen leaves and dust. If you add the background music of "Erquan Yinyue" by Blind A'Reng, it looks like a family fleeing.
But Zou Jinxing was a local commune cadre in Changping and a well-known person.
Unfortunately, with the epidemic at its peak, no cadres are of any use. No one has any privileges, so everyone has to line up obediently.
Jin Xiaoting stood up with difficulty and looked at the endless line of doctors, her heart filled with despair.
"Old Zou, why don't you ask someone to think of a way to see if we can cut in line? Xiaoyan, Xiaoyan's body is so hot."
Zou Jinxing touched his eldest daughter's forehead and sighed heavily:
"Everyone's lining up, everyone's running a fever, but only ours is special? Besides, who can I ask to go? They're at the Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and next door is the Union Hospital. Which of these two hospitals is lower-ranking than ours? Who among them knows me, a grassroots cadre?"
Jin Xiaoting wiped her tears and said, "But, but what about our son and daughter?"
Zou Jinxing touched his pocket and found 100 yuan hidden inside, which was all his family's savings:
"Don't worry, I have money. It will be our turn soon. I will ask the doctor to give the child the best medicine. Be content. Many farmers have no money and can only wait to die at home when they get sick. We are blessed by the new society."
At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded next to him:
"Hello, comrade. I'm a doctor from the Chinese Medicine Hospital. I'm going to do a preliminary examination on your family. Please cooperate."
Zou Jinxing turned around and saw a young doctor in a white coat. He felt a little strange, but on the surface he smiled weakly and said:
"Hello, hello, why are you suddenly cutting in line for our family? There are so many people waiting here, why don't you let those in need come first?"
Jin Xiaoting suddenly kicked her husband, hating this stubborn guy.
Lin Sanqi laughed and comforted him:
"It's okay. Everyone will have a turn. I'll start with your family. Only when we know what disease everyone has can we better treat it, right?"
When Zou Jinxing heard this, he suddenly felt that he was very lucky. The Chinese medicine hospital investigated their family first, so why would they ignore him afterwards?
"Okay, comrade, you can do whatever testing you want, and we will definitely cooperate."
Lin Sanqi asked, "Does your whole family have the same symptoms now? Are there any obvious coughs or runny noses?"
Zou Jinxing shook his head:
"It's just a fever, no other cold symptoms, and there's pain all over my limbs, as if I'd been beaten. We adults are fine, but the child is shaking with fever. As parents, we're terrified, worried about the child having convulsions. What should we do?"
There was only a fever and muscle aches all over the body, but no catarrhal symptoms. Lin Sanqi sighed inwardly after hearing this. These symptoms were still like mask disease.
Lin Sanqi took out a few test tubes and said:
"Okay, then please cooperate with me. I need to collect a sample. Specifically, I'll poke it into the nose and the throat. Each of you will poke it twice."
Generally, when you go to the hospital for testing, you only need to choose between a nasal swab or a throat swab.
However, when the mask disease was spreading, in order to prevent errors in the specimens, nasopharyngeal swabs were required to be taken simultaneously, in duplicate, and sent to two testing institutions, which was very rigorous.
Lin Sanqi was also afraid of errors, and since he didn't want the patients to spend any money, he simply tested both.
The common people during this period were very obedient and easy to fool. They would cooperate with whatever Lin Sanqi said.
As a medical student, Lin Sanqi happened to come into contact with masks during his time at school, so his nucleic acid collection level was quite high. After a while, he had obtained 10 samples from 5 people.
Lin Sanqi wrote his name on the test tube and sealed it in a plastic bag. The collection work for one family was completed, and he quickly disinfected his hands.
With a start, Lin Sanqi was no longer afraid of being rejected, so he collected specimens from the adults and children in the queue behind him one by one.
During this time, other staff members of the Chinese medicine hospital also saw Lin Sanqi poking people's throats and noses with objects in a strange manner, but as he was the director's godson, no one came forward to ask him about it.
After collecting specimens from five groups of families, Lin Sanqi quickly found an office door, pushed it open, and hid in the "passageway space".
Within an hour, all the specimen results came out.
Lin Sanqi looked at the two bars above and breathed a sigh of relief:
Fortunately, it was not a mask disease, but influenza A.
This result is the best result.
But the flu is much better. Although the flu is fierce, the harm it causes to society and the body is much lighter. The key is that there are effective medicines to treat it.
In fact, this is a misunderstanding of Lin Sanqi, an intern doctor, who thinks the flu is milder than a mask.
But according to an authoritative statistical data from Japan.
For people over 60 years old: The severity rate of influenza is 0.79% and the mortality rate is 0.55%; the severity rate of masks is 0.14% and the mortality rate is 0.475%~0.64%.
This means that the severity rate of mask-wearing is 20% of that of influenza, and the mortality rate is comparable to that of influenza, or slightly higher.
For those under 60 years old: The severity rate of influenza is 0.03%, and the mortality rate is 0.01%; the severity rate of masks is 0.01%, and the mortality rate is 0.004% to 0.01%.
The severity rate of masks is only 33% of that of influenza, and the mortality rate is also lower than that of influenza.
So the flu is by no means as harmless as it appears on the surface. The several major flu outbreaks in Europe were still a living hell.
It is only in later generations that medicine has developed, and influenza has become an infectious disease that is prevalent every year. Countries have developed effective drugs, such as mabaloxavir and oseltamivir, so it seems that the harm is not great.
After Lin Sanqi learned that the epidemic in Changping was influenza, he immediately traveled back to 2013.
Now that he knows what the disease is, he needs a lot of medicine to treat it, otherwise it would be useless.
Although Lin Sanqi was no longer able to become a doctor in 2013, he studied in medical university for five years and his basic connections and circle of friends were always there.
Through his senior brother Xu Kaicheng at Huadu No. 8 Hospital, Lin Sanqi contacted a pharmaceutical representative who made influenza drugs.
In a private room of a high-end hotel.
Xu Kaicheng looked at Lin Sanqi, who was still wearing ordinary clothes, and exclaimed:
"Qizai, you really can't judge a person by his appearance. When we first learned that the school had punished you, we all thought your life was over and you had been screwed. Who would have thought that you are the real hidden capital boss among our classmates."
Lin Sanqi is now the legal representative of three companies. In just a few months, the company's turnover is approaching 1 billion. This news has spread among the classmates of Huadu Medical University.
From starting from scratch to becoming a billionaire, it's definitely a miracle.
Although there are still doubts among classmates, Lingnan Hall’s reputation cannot be false, especially since Lingnan Hall only sells precious Chinese medicinal materials, which is not something that ordinary companies can do.
Just one hundred-year-old wild ginseng has defeated all its counterparts across the country, and people in the industry understand how important this is.
Lin Sanqi laughed at himself:
"Brother Xu, please stop making fun of me. I also want to be a good doctor, but my ability does not allow it, so I can only be a drug dealer and serve doctors like you to earn some hard-earned money."
"Bah, is there any drug dealer as rich as you? You make money like picking up dirt. If it were me, I wouldn't want to be a lousy doctor who only makes a few dollars a month."
People in society have a misunderstanding about doctors' income. They think that the average income of a doctor must start from one million, and those unscrupulous doctors who earn tens of millions a year are nothing.
This misunderstanding has both advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage is that it is a plus in the marriage market, can help single young doctors better solve personal problems, and mothers-in-law like it.
But the downside is that after marriage, if you find out that the doctor is not that rich, family disputes are likely to arise, and many of them end up in divorce.
Therefore, in order to save trouble, most medical staff prefer to find a spouse from the same hospital or the same system.
In this way, both parties have the same values, similar diplomas, education and income, and even work the same night shifts. No one will look down on the other, and they will support each other throughout their lives.
As I said, doctors are in this profession where they become more popular as they get older, but the prerequisite is that they are "old".
For example, a medical student who has completed 5 years of undergraduate studies and 3 years of graduate studies (doctoral studies are not counted) still needs to undergo regular training after entering a hospital and cannot practice medicine independently.
After graduation, undergraduate students will undergo 3 years of regular training, and after graduation, postgraduate students will undergo 2 years of regular training.
In the past few years, the income of resident doctors is very low. They are just given basic living expenses, which will not exceed 5,000 yuan per month. Remember, this is not US dollars, but RMB.
If you are less fortunate and are assigned to some county-level local hospitals, your monthly income may be only around 3,000 yuan, which can barely ensure that you don't starve to death.
After the regular training is completed and you officially start working, as an ordinary resident or a junior attending physician, your annual income will not exceed 200,000 yuan.
This 200,000 is already the standard for a Grade A hospital.
If you work in a county or city-level local hospital, it would be considered good if a junior doctor could earn over 100,000 yuan a year.
Then compare it with the current housing prices, and you will know how hard the life of a young doctor is. He can only find a budget hotel to book a room with his girlfriend, and it is impossible to have a romantic stay in a five-star hotel.
The income is so low, but the working hours are beyond anyone's imagination.
Resident doctors have to be in the ward almost 30 days a month, especially the attending physicians, who have to be there for daily ward rounds.
So you can pay attention and observe that there are very few doctors among the tourists. Doctors are either at work or taking exams, or they may not have money to travel.
Once a doctor's income increases, he or she will be promoted to associate senior physician, which is the level of deputy chief physician.
(End of this chapter)
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