Chapter 158 Okay & Turn Around & Red Phone...
After hanging up the call with Ma Shuhui, Xu Duan just happened to arrive with a lunch box.
"This is the pork rib soup that your parents cooked for you. Didn't Su Xing say he wanted to eat egg fried rice yesterday, so your dad fried it for him early in the morning."
The egg fried rice cooked by Shu Linong is different from that cooked by Zhao Wanqiu. There are almost as many eggs as rice. The eggs are directly beaten into the rice and mixed evenly. The mixture is fried slowly over low heat until the snow-white rice grains turn into the golden color of the egg liquid. Later generations called this Golden Sand Fried Rice, but Uncle Tian said that this is "the egg fried rice eaten by ancient emperors."
This kind of imagination was just like "the emperor digging the ground with a golden hoe", which made Shu Jin laugh endlessly. But now, looking at the two full boxes of fried rice that were packed tightly, she just felt warm in her heart. Shu Linong was afraid that they would not get enough nutrition, so he added carrot and mutton cubes into the rice, making it fresh and fragrant. The pork rib soup also contains corn and some health-preserving herbs, such as Codonopsis pilosula and Angelica sinensis. It tastes sweet and refreshing, and has a unique aroma of Chinese medicinal herbs.
Su Xing could already eat by himself, so Jin Yue gave him some food and picked up two pieces of pork ribs. He sat by himself and ate them obediently.
Xu Duan was talking to them at the door. "The nanny has been ruled out as a suspect. Now the suspect is the woman who often goes to Goldfish Alley to sell popsicles. Based on the children's description, I have already sent someone to find her."
Shu Jinyue breathed a sigh of relief and exchanged the information he got from Ma Shuhui with him: "This virus has appeared in Country A for more than a month. Currently, there are about 300 registered children with the disease, but I estimate that the actual number is at least three times that, because the media in Country A is not trustworthy."
"Also, the mortality rate they calculated is around 4.7%, but I don't think it's accurate. It should be at least 5%, or even three percentage points higher. Such an infectious disease is already very serious." She remembered reading on her mobile phone that the mortality rate of the pneumonia in 2003 was around 10%, but the intensity was already very high and rare in history. The mortality rate of a certain coronavirus pneumonia that followed was only 2%... Besides, the 20% severity rate of K virus pneumonia is much higher than these two pneumonias.
The severity rate is not just a number, it also means the severity of the disease, poor prognosis, high cost, and even serious sequelae.
"We must control this infectious disease and must not let it spread." It is only transmitted among children under the age of eight. I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but at least as adult health workers, we have not been knocked down by the virus and still have the energy to find a solution.
"Do you have any solution?" Xu Duan asked in a low voice, and he felt that the noises of the mother and son eating had become quieter.
"It all depends on the effect of Su Xing's treatment. If it works, then there is a way."
"No effect doesn't mean there is no solution. After all, Chinese medicine focuses on syndrome differentiation. Just because there is no solution for Su Xing's syndrome doesn't mean there is no solution for other syndromes."
Xu Duan didn't quite understand what the syndrome was, but he believed in Shu Jinyue unconditionally, "Okay, wait until the child is better tomorrow, let mom go in to accompany him, you come out, it will be more convenient outside." He didn't go in to accompany her, naturally he had other important things to do.
He wants to trace the source and find out where the virus came from. Ma Shuhui is also doing tracing work, but she is doing it from a medical perspective, while his perspective is different.
He always felt that this matter was not simple. If it was not figured out at once, it would not only pose hidden dangers to the whole family in the future, but might even pose a threat to social security.
He had no time to spend with his child, so he could only feel guilty in his heart, "Xingxing, listen to grandma. When you get better, daddy will buy you a big plane, okay?"
Little Xingxing listened with his ear close to the door, but he couldn't understand anything, let alone who this "father" was. To him, this person who had disappeared for more than half a year had already become a stranger.
But the little boy is always interested in airplanes and cannons. "Really? Can I have two big airplanes? I want one for my sister."
Jin Yue and Xu Duan both laughed, "Okay, okay, Miss Baonan, you should show your filial piety to your sister first."
Of course, Shu Jinyue didn't go home either. She stayed in the hospital for the next two days, working during the day and stopping the outpatient clinic to take care of her own things. She would go to sleep with Xingxing at night.
Although she didn't need to see a doctor, she needed to think about the K virus. She was sure that she had never heard of this virus when she was a ghost. Whether in Long Country or Country A, or even in the whole world, there was no infection called K virus.
This was a battle for which there was no ready-made experience to use, so she asked Xu Duan to bring her the books she needed. She read through them one by one, writing down all the cases in which she felt similar symptoms had occurred, and finally summarizing them for comparison.
Of course, she also did not forget the effective prescriptions that were summarized with the efforts of the whole country. Although the symptoms of the two pneumonia infectious diseases in later generations were different from this time's K virus, they always had something in common. In the scope of traditional Chinese medicine, they all belonged to plague, epidemic, and miasma. They first attacked the human lungs and both had symptoms of fever.
According to TCM theory, fever is a reaction to the struggle between good and evil. The higher the fever and the longer it lasts, the more intense the struggle. Su Xing's low to moderate fever does not seem intense on the surface, but it is actually a trick of the evil spirit (K virus) to confuse the enemy. It is like boiling a frog in warm water. Once the time is right, it will definitely deal a fatal blow to all the internal organs of the body.
Therefore, Shu Jinyue did not dare to relax at all. After three days of thinking, he finally wrote a detailed diagnosis and treatment guide, including the history of the disease, epidemiological characteristics, etiology and pathogenesis, clinical manifestations (symptoms and signs), diagnosis, differential diagnosis, key points of syndrome differentiation, treatment principles, classification and treatment, prognosis and post-disease adjustment [1]... Of course, almost every sentence has a literature source and is supported by data.
However, the sample size of this "data" is very small. After all, there are only a dozen patients, and these data were obtained from Ma Shuhui.
It took Jin Yue three full days and two nights to finish the whole set, and he wrote more than 30,000 words. The draft alone was more than ten pages long, and the information he looked up piled up into a small mountain.
When Xu Duan saw her again, Shu Jinyue felt her eyes were dizzy and she almost couldn't stand. He had to support her.
"Come on, let's go get a chest X-ray now."
As I said, there was no time to worry about radiation at this time. The family of three came to the imaging department, and the old couple of the Wang family were already waiting there.
"The district's epidemic prevention station came to collect samples yesterday, what were the results?"
"It only says that the viral load has decreased and is borderline positive. It will turn negative soon. It is still unknown whether it is contagious. You should stay away from it." Shu Jinyue specifically does this at night when there are no patients. Due to limited conditions, he can only avoid it this way.
Old Wang lifted Su Xing up and put him on his shoulders. "I'm old, I have nothing to fear. We have seen all kinds of things. When the Japanese used our Long countrymen for live experiments, I went into that laboratory and got out alive after losing a layer of skin. I am lucky, right, young man?"
Su Xing was so amused by him that he couldn't stop laughing, "Grandpa Wang, so high! So high!"
"Boy, you are amazing. You can handle this. You will have good fortune in the future."
Shu Jinyue smiled, and the director of the imaging department came out and took the child in. Having experienced it once, he was no longer afraid. He just posed in whatever positions he was asked to and was very cooperative.
There was only one person, reading the film very quickly, and the old couple of the Wang family followed in, "Huh... the infection is gone?"
"Well, the thickened and increased lung texture has disappeared. You see, last time these areas were heavily shadowed, but this time they are gone, and much clearer."
Jin Yue hurried to see, and it was true!
The K virus is truly "magical". Not only does it have no symptoms or signs, even experienced doctors cannot hear any abnormal breathing sounds in the lungs using a stethoscope. Chest X-ray is currently the only evidence that can confirm the invasion of this virus. So, now that the chest X-ray results have returned to normal, does it also mean that the virus has been contained or even eliminated?
Anyway, Shu Jinyue felt that since chest X-rays were to be used as the gold standard for diagnosis, this statement was completely valid.
"Jin Yue, what prescription did you use on Little Star? Why is it so effective?"
She did not hide her secrets and briefly explained that they were not Chinese medicine practitioners and did not understand much about it, but they only knew that the effect was immediate and that they could find evidence to prove its definite efficacy, which could stand up to scrutiny.
"You, you used the recipe directly on Su Xing. I don't know whether I should say that you have a spirit of experimentation or that you are brave. If you don't know, you might think you are a stepmother."
Shu Jinyue smiled bitterly. It was not that she intended to use her own child as an experiment, but she really had no other choice. In Xiao Xingxing's situation, she had tried all the methods she could. She couldn't just keep wasting time like this, right? The consequences of ignoring long-term fever are very serious, especially for young children. Not every fever patient is as lucky as Aunt Wang.
However, she didn't want to explain because she was too tired.
The child really couldn't stay in the hospital anymore. He kept acting like a spoiled child and saying that he missed his brothers and sisters. However, Shu Jinyue still hardened her heart and refused to take him home. He still stayed in a separate ward and she stayed with him personally.
In the middle of the night, she was suddenly awakened by Anna, "Jin Yue, Jin Yue, wake up, Director Ma called and said it was urgent."
Shu Jinyue opened his eyes, put on his clothes and went to the office.
Ma Shuhui's anxiety was transmitted through the phone line to Jin Yue's nerves. "It's bad. Two children started to have high fevers yesterday afternoon. They had coughs, chest pains, and suffocation. The eight-year-old child was breathing 40 times per minute. After examination at the district hospital, he was diagnosed with severe pneumonia. Can you come over and help take a look?"
Shu Jinyue woke up immediately from his doze. Numbers are always the most intuitive and shocking. The normal breathing rate of an eight-year-old child is 18-20 times per minute, and his reached 40 times, which is twice as much as normal! What is this going to become? The whole person is like a bellows!
"Is it appropriate for me to go there now?" Jin Yue was a little hesitant. After all, she was a close contact with Su Xing for so many days, eating and living together. Although it was not easy for her to be infected, it did not mean that it was absolutely impossible. It was not appropriate for her to go around with the virus.
"How about this, Director Ma, you can transfer all these young patients to our hospital, and I will vacate a floor of independent wards for them."
As it happens, there are many vacant beds in her hospital, and the department with the least inpatients is the obstetrics and gynecology department. "I will explain to the patients and their families and transfer the obstetrics and gynecology patients to other departments so that they can vacate the beds. I will also lock the doors of the floors to prevent patients from moving around. I can barely build a simple isolation ward first. How do you think?"
It certainly cannot be compared with later generations, but in these days, for Shilan Province, which does not have special infectious disease hospitals and wards, it is the best condition that can be offered.
The key point is that in this way, putting the child under Shu Jinyue's care makes Ma Shuhui feel more at ease than finding any number of experts. She was silent for a moment. "Are you sure? If the virus infection spreads, your hospital will need to be sealed off immediately, which will have a great impact on your business."
Not only will there be a decrease in the number of patients and revenue in the short term, but in the long run, many ordinary people who are unaware of the truth will think that this hospital is unlucky and will not come if they can avoid it, or they will mind seeing patients with infectious diseases staying there and will not want to be hospitalized here.
Shu Jinyue is not a good person. She is also a businesswoman. She understands the pros and cons. This will be a huge loss of profits, but Shu Jinyue is also a doctor. She will make the best decision for the patient. "It's okay. Just transfer them all here. I'll put them all on the top floor and keep the two floors below empty. They'll be ventilated and disinfected every day. If they need to be checked, they can go downstairs at night after the regular patients go home."
After the inspection, we will conduct unified disinfection and do hospital infection sampling test. If the test is qualified, the department will be opened the next morning to serve ordinary patients.
Ma Shuhui was very grateful, "Thank you, Jin Yue."
If the situation cannot be controlled this time, she will no longer be the director of the epidemic prevention station. Shu Jinyue is helping her.
After the agreement was made, Ma Shuhui immediately arranged personnel and explained the situation to the families of the children one by one. When everyone heard that the children would be transferred to Jin Yue Hospital, which had the best conditions in the province, and that Jin Yue was a well-known figure in Xinqiao Street and many parents had seen her for medical treatment, they naturally had no objection.
But they had heard that Jinyue Hospital had many doctors with excellent medical skills, advanced examination equipment, a good environment, and even the food was much better than other hospital cafeterias. It was said that there were five meat dishes for each meal, and the hands of every chef who served the dishes did not shake.
"Of course, your children cannot go to the cafeteria to eat by themselves. There will be special personnel to deliver them to the ward. Don't worry, if there is anything, you will be notified in time."
The parents smiled and said, "Okay, let's not worry."
As for the two seriously ill young patients, Shu Jinyue found after syndrome differentiation that their conditions were not as serious as Western medicine said, and were far from requiring endotracheal intubation, let alone tracheotomy. Based on their syndrome types, one had severe shortness of breath and shortness of breath, so she used Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang with modifications; the other had a higher fever accompanied by irritability and constipation, so she directly used Sheng Mai San plus a quarter of an An Gong Niu Huang Wan, and gave it to the patient to be taken with boiled rhubarb water.
The symptoms of these two young patients were not specific at first, but became more serious in the later stages, which was more conducive to accurate diagnosis.
As soon as the doctor's order was given, the other doctors and nurses who were assigned to the isolation ward began to get busy. Shu Jinyue went to see Su Xing. After the lung infection subsided and he rested for a day and a night, he has now regained his full energy as before his illness. Jin Yue began to ask about his movements in the past half month before the New Year.
Combining what the nanny, bodyguard and Teacher Shu said, we can roughly draw a conclusion - the other young patients were infected by him.
Shu Jinyue sighed, this really was an innocent disaster. The person who poisoned the child might have just wanted to target him, but he never expected that the child was full of energy, running around here and there, and passed the virus to innocent children.
If she couldn't cure these children... Shu Jinyue broke out in a cold sweat.
No, no, no, she can definitely cure them, and she can't take their money. Fortunately, it is winter vacation now and it won't affect their studies, otherwise she would be committing a serious sin.
***
It took Xu Duan about half a month to finally find the woman selling popsicles. When they found her, her hair was long and her "gold teeth" were gone. Everyone then realized that her short hair and gold teeth were all her disguises. If they were to look for her based on these two physical features, they would probably never find her even if the seas dried up and the rocks crumbled.
"With such a tight disguise, her identity must be something extraordinary, right?"
"It's indeed not simple. She is a spy planted by Country A and has been active in Long Country for many years. Now the Long Public Security Bureau is interrogating her to see if they can dig out something more." In addition to the damage she has done over the years, of course we have to find out who her superiors and subordinates are, and then track them down and eliminate them to prevent future troubles.
"There will be more such incidents in the future. Future battles may no longer be bloody battles on the battlefield, but rather wars of public opinion, biological warfare, and economic warfare."
Shu Jinyue gave a thumbs up, thinking that the boss was worthy of being a boss and was quite far-sighted, and he really got it right.
"However, for the real war to turn into these bloodless wars, it must be based on the fact that our country's national strength has reached a certain level. Only when we have powerful weapons in our hands will the enemy hesitate, think twice, and evaluate whether it is worthwhile to fight us with real swords and guns, and then change the way of fighting."
All of this requires the efforts of several generations and the joint struggle of hundreds of millions of compatriots. What they can do is to do their own job well. Even if they are just a screw, they must do their job well.
Xu Duan laughed, "You are not a screw. You will be a sharp blade in the future and the backbone of the Chinese medicine community."
"Go ahead and brag, you say you have backbone, why are you so fond of bragging?" She was just trying her best to do her job well, she didn't want to be a leader, nor did she have the ambition to be a backbone.
Xu Duan smiled, being excellent without realizing it.
"If you don't believe me, why didn't they choose other children or go to other places, but chose our child... Of course, I'm not saying that you implicated Su Xing. I'm saying that they chose to poison our child. Of course, they wanted to let the virus destroy the next generation of Dragon people, but it also has something to do with you."
Shu Jinyue just called Lin Zhen yesterday. The people she can contact there are more professional and the data is more reliable. According to her, the number of children infected with K virus in Country A has exceeded 3,000, and the mortality rate and severity rate are constantly increasing. Not long after the virus appeared, her husband Eric was hired by a large biopharmaceutical company as a researcher with a high salary to specialize in researching special medicines.
"There is actually no progress on the so-called miracle drugs. Their country has hyped up two antiviral drugs, but the current clinical data is not enough to prove that they are miracle drugs." Shu Jinyue thought to himself that the essence of capital is profit-seeking, and as long as there is money to be made, they can hype up anything. The efficacy and side effects of this kind of drug are uncertain. It is a sloppy thing that comes out of the laboratory after working overtime. Once it is hyped by the media and endorsed by politicians, it is sold at a sky-high price.
In their minds, human life is nothing more than a number. Because the statistics are unscientific and untrue, there is no chance that it can even be counted as a number.
"Lin Zhen told me that among the first batch of children who were sick, some have already recovered, but the sequelae are also quite serious. There is a certain probability that they will suffer from brain disease, liver disease and kidney disease that will be difficult to reverse for life. As for those children who already have serious congenital diseases, they are..."
Xu Duan was also in a heavy mood. "Aunt Hu has already reported this matter and personally instructed us to do our best to control the situation."
"No wonder. I was wondering why Aunt Hu called me yesterday. It turns out you were the one who reported it to her."
"This matter is of great importance. Although on the surface there are only a few dozen sporadic cases in one street under the jurisdiction of our Shucheng City, it is still uncertain whether that group of people have committed crimes in other cities, and it is not certain whether there are any carriers entering the country through customs. She is also very worried..." I guess her hair has turned a lot whiter.
"As for Western medicine, domestic vaccine companies are also conducting research. A few days ago, they had someone come to take samples from children and also took some antibodies from Su Xing, but whether they can develop it is still unknown."
Jin Yue smiled and said, "This is the perfect window period for Chinese medicine."
She said it was no wonder that in addition to Hu Guizhi, expert He and several provincial leaders called her office and kindly urged her to work harder. She had been busy writing the guide these days and had no time to think about it. Now it seemed that her thinking was still superficial.
"By the way, Su Xing can be discharged from the hospital now. You can take him home. Keep him away from other children and don't let him walk around."
"What about you?" The man's eyes were very deep, and his gaze was scorching and compelling.
Shu Jinyue blushed, but the most important thing now was to treat these children. "I won't be going home for a while. I'll stay in the hospital. Anyway, we're not far away, so we can see each other often."
"Okay, I'll wait for you to come home."
***
After Su Xing was discharged from the hospital, he was still full of energy, ate well, and had no sequelae to his liver, kidneys, or brain. This gave Jin Yue more confidence.
The symptoms of the two seriously ill children were gradually alleviated under the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. After about seven days, their shortness of breath subsided, their consciousness became clear, and their urination, defecation, and vital signs returned to normal. This once again proves that traditional Chinese medicine is effective in treating this disease.
Another half month passed, and almost all the children were discharged from the hospital after reexamination of chest X-rays. The burden on Shu Jinyue's shoulders was finally relieved a lot. "I can finally go home tonight. Everyone has been guarding in the isolation ward for so long, and it's time to go home and rest."
"Thank you, Dean. We are not working hard, but you are." It is common for him to work overtime until one or two o'clock in the morning, and he gets up earlier than them in the morning.
"Everyone is the same. The work done by each person is very important and critical. Without your cooperation and execution, even the best prescription will not work."
These words are very heartwarming and everyone feels comfortable listening to them.
"After research, the hospital office has decided to give each of the staff working in the isolation ward a certain amount of bonus and subsidy. The specific amount will be measured according to the workload and working hours. Xiao Zhang, please make a statistics first, and report it to the hospital office security assistant after confirming that it is correct."
Now, everyone is happier!
"Dean, phone, red." Anna called her at the door, the word "red" was lip-synced without making any sound.
At Mr. Jiang's insistence, a red telephone was installed in Shu Jinyue's office, which was a confidential phone.
Shu Jinyue was stunned. It was already past eight o'clock. Who would call her? And it was a confidential call, so she had a bad feeling.
When she picked up the phone, she found out it was a notice from the province, which only contained one sentence: asking her to go to Beijing the next day.
She didn't have to worry about the flight, and air tickets were not a problem. No one told her where she was going or who she was meeting. She was only told that someone would accompany her.
Shu Jinyue thought about it and decided that since the notice was so urgent, she did not go home. She continued to stay in the hospital that night and cured the last child. She was discharged from the hospital the next day. Then she went to Beijing with the "Traditional Chinese Medicine Prevention and Treatment Plan for K Virus Pneumonia" she had written.
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