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Written by: Commentary Editing Room
2021-01-13 06:45
Last update date: 2021-01-13 06:45
The fourth wave of the epidemic has not yet ended, and the new pneumonia case tracking office composed of 100 people seconded by multiple disciplinary forces finally went into operation on Monday (11th).
However, it is still too early to say whether the tracking office can help clear the epidemic as soon as possible.
Before effective vaccines are generally injected, the key to anti-epidemic work is to stop the spread of the virus and cut the chain of transmission as soon as possible.
This test tests the speed of detection results, and the second depends on the knowledge of confirmed cases and their close contacts.
Therefore, an office dedicated to tracking confirmed cases has been established, and more people will follow up the work of cutting off the transmission chain, which will naturally play a positive role in fighting the epidemic.
According to the current government's introduction, the newly established tracking office is of the same nature as the current tracking work of the Health Protection Center, mainly dealing with legal documents and issuing quarantine orders, and after relevant training, let the tracking office staff assist in finding and recording confirmed cases .
According to the rise and fall of confirmed cases, the tracking office can increase or decrease the number of manpower.
In other words, according to current data, the changes brought about by the tracking office lie in quantity rather than quality.
The Kai Tak Community Hall Case Tracking Center opened today (January 11).
(Photo by Ouyang Dehao)
Limited manpower, technology to be seen
First of all, as the director of the Infection and Infectious Diseases Center of the University of Hong Kong pointed out, if the authorities are to follow up the cases carefully, it is not enough to seconde 100 people.
Secondly, the investigation and tracking of the communication chain is very complicated, and it is often done with half the effort only by manpower input without technical assistance.
For example, since the mainland has widely adopted real-name systems for travel, whether it is to pay for movie tickets and supermarket items with real-name mobile phones, or to scan real-name cars and see a doctor with mobile phones, the authorities can quickly delineate most of the cases after they find a confirmed case. Citizens in the same vehicle and same place who had been in close contact with this case.
Of course, the real-name system in the Mainland has caused a lot of controversy on personal privacy issues, reflecting that modern epidemic prevention is not only a medical technology issue, but also involves scientific and ethical disputes, that is, the society needs to decide what to do in the current effective epidemic prevention tracking technology and personal privacy protection authority Achieve consensus and balance.
The peace of mind travel plan launched by the Hong Kong government can actually play the same role in improving the efficiency of epidemic prevention and investigation. However, due to the public's uneasy privacy issues, most of them still doubt this program.
The real-name system in the mainland has penetrated into all aspects of people's lives. Henan has issued policies requiring consumers to purchase imported cold-chain food under the real-name system.
(Xinhua News Agency)
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No matter how good the policy or technology, if the public does not cooperate or even deliberately do the opposite, the epidemic prevention work will not be effective.
The real-name system is widely implemented in the mainland, and Beijing Shunyi still has the problem of deliberately concealing the itinerary of confirmed patients.
When we ask how much Hong Kong's tracking office can help prevent the epidemic, we must also consider the degree of cooperation of the citizens.
Not only the tracking office, but the various epidemic prevention policies will be lonely if they don't have enough public cooperation.
For example, the recent epidemic has not yet ended, but a large number of citizens couldn't bear it and went to the areas of Hetau and Liushuixiang to watch the deciduous pine. The crowds were comparable to the streets of Mong Kok, increasing the risk of epidemic prevention.
In the previous discussion, whether the number of family gatherings should be regulated or not, although some people laughed that this policy is difficult to implement, the introduction of this absurd proposal is precisely because the people do not self-discipline in private gatherings, causing loopholes in epidemic prevention.
Therefore, epidemic prevention must rely on medicine, technology, and policy formulation, but it also depends on the cooperation of the people.
Case tracking is an important part of the epidemic prevention work. Putting more manpower into this work will naturally bring more benefits than before.
It's just that in the absence of technological innovation and people's cooperation in doubt, it may not be able to play a key role.
We need to realize that epidemic prevention is not only medical work, but also the technology and the ethical issues behind it. It is also the quality and unity of the public. After all, epidemic prevention is not only the responsibility of a government or a department, but also a shared responsibility of you and me.
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