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Recovered people call for injections: intubation is not as good as dead, and the cook once lost taste and was disgusted by his family

2021-06-18T18:39:26.301Z


Two originally strong men were diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia last year. Ade, a 65-year-old retiree, was in a coma for several days and his life was hanging by a thread; after being discharged from the hospital, the 60-year-old chef Robert suffered discrimination from his colleagues and was rejected by his family.


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Written by: Li Enci

2021-06-16 08:00

Last update date: 2021-06-16 08:45

Two originally strong men were diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia last year.

Ade, a 65-year-old retiree, was in a coma for several days and his life was hanging by a thread; after being discharged from the hospital, 60-year-old chef Robert suffered discrimination from his colleagues and was turned away by his family.

After climbing out of the "Ghost Gate", they were afraid of a second infection, and in March they could not wait to receive the new crown vaccine.

The two recalled the experience of the infection and still had lingering fears, so they appealed to the public to get vaccinated. Ade lamented: "This disease can destroy an entire family. I hope that no one else in the world will get new coronary pneumonia."

Tsang Tak-yin, medical director of the Infectious Disease Center of the Hospital Authority, said that the effectiveness of natural infections to prevent re-infection is not 100% and will decline over time.

Although secondary infections are usually mild, he also urged the survivors to get injections as soon as possible.

60-year-old chef Robert contracted the new crown pneumonia in July last year. He belongs to the third wave of "tea restaurant taxi group" and stayed in hospital for about 20 days.

He said that he "don't visit a doctor once a year" on weekdays. At that time, he was dizzy and he was very shocked when he was diagnosed. "I'm healthy, and I will be caught (infected)." Robert's lung infection is serious. Tseng Tak-yin, the medical director of the Infectious Diseases Center of the Hospital Authority, said that he was admitted to the hospital less than a week after "a lung is close to the sun." After a week, he gradually improved by 30%. By the time he was discharged from the hospital, he had recovered by half, and then slowly recovered.

When his condition was severe, Robert needed to smell oxygen and hang salt water at one time, and he lost his sense of taste for nearly two weeks.

He recalled: "I have a sore throat, I can't eat it completely, it's difficult to breathe and talk, and it's hard to get up. But I am in the catering industry, and I like to eat, and it is hard and pessimistic. He was restored to plasma therapy, and the efficacy of serum helped him out of danger.

My throat hurts so much, I can't eat it completely, it's so difficult to breathe and talk, and it's hard to get up.

But because I am in the catering industry, I like to eat very much. It is very hard and pessimistic.

Rehab Chef Robert

But what made Robert the most painful was the reluctance of people around him to take off his tinted glasses.

After he recovered, he wanted to go home to see the elderly and children, but he was repeatedly rejected on the grounds of the epidemic. He was vaccinated, and his family should tell him to go home later.

The situation in workplaces with small outbreaks is even worse. Robert went to the early morning shift after he recovered. When his colleagues saw him in the restaurant in the morning when he went to work, they would feel scared, "It seems that he doesn’t want to see me. "All kinds of discriminatory experiences made Robert fear that he would be infected again.

The government only announced in May that only one injection is required for the recovered patients. Robert had completed two doses of Fubitai vaccine in mid-April. After the injection, he developed mild fever and no appetite.

However, "Even if the injection was given, Qu Wei (family and colleagues) was shocked. People who passed the pass felt that their resistance was relatively weak."

Ade fell into a coma a few days after admission and stayed in the intensive care unit for nearly a week.

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I don't know how many throats are inserted. I am stuck in a bunch of throats. It is almost impossible to live or die. I feel a little depressed. My teeth and throat are all painful near the esophagus.

Recovered from the fourth wave of epidemic

Ade, a 65-year-old retiree, was diagnosed in December last year. He belongs to the fourth wave of patients and stayed in the hospital for about 23 days.

He was originally in good health and had no long-term illness, but he fell into a coma a few days after he was admitted to the hospital. He stayed in the intensive care unit for nearly a week during which time the doctors and nurses contacted his family members. "Tell him to be mentally prepared. It’s shocking.” Adelaide still remembers the helplessness during his stay in the doctor. “I don’t know how many throats are inserted. I don’t know how many throats are inserted. It hurts all around the same esophagus."

A-de remembered that before he fell into a coma, he had received a message from his eighty-year-old mother: "A-de, Grandma wants you to take care of him", which made him feel stressed and painful.

"At that time, I was studying. If I save my life, my grandmother will have no children, my wife will have no husbands, and my children will have no fathers." He sighed deeply: "This disease can destroy a whole family, but May there be no more people in the world suffering from new coronary pneumonia."

After he was discharged from the hospital, he was still weak, his steps were floating, he was prone to breathlessness when he walked, and he needed to be recuperated for about a month to recover.

He had received two doses of Koxing vaccine as early as March this year, and the only side effect was runny nose.

Zeng Dexian said that natural infection can bring 80.5% protection rate to prevent re-infection, and the effect is not 100%.

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Zeng Dexian said that natural infection can bring 80.5% protection rate to prevent re-infection, and the effect is not 100%.

He quoted a Danish study that pointed out that of more than 11,000 people who had contracted new coronary pneumonia from March to May last year, 72 people were re-infected from September to December of the same year. The rate was 0.65%, which was lower than the 3.27% of first-time infections.

An example of a second infection in Hong Kong is a 44-year-old IT male who had recovered from the Ouyou Zeng. He was diagnosed again 142 days after the first onset, with mild symptoms.

Zeng Dexian believes that his first infection did not have enough antibodies, and he did not produce enough antibodies until his second recovery.

He also quoted a mainland study last year that the positive rate of antibodies in symptomatic patients dropped to 87.1% in patients with new coronary pneumonia 8 weeks after infection, while that in asymptomatic patients dropped to 60%, proving that antibodies will decrease over time, especially in asymptomatic patients. It is easier to get a second infection.

However, compared with the first infection, the risk of pneumonia, heart failure and acute kidney injury in the second infection is very low.

According to a study conducted by BioNTech Fubitai Vaccine in April this year, 37 people who had been infected received one dose of the vaccine, and the amount of antibodies in their bodies was higher than that of 62 uninfected people who received two doses. Tseng Dexian pointed out, "Recovered people only need one dose. , The amount of antibodies is very important, rising to a difference of not more than 1,000." And the amount of antibodies for an average person to get two doses of vaccine is about 100, which is enough to exert a protective effect.

He said that more than 10% of the survivors had been vaccinated in the impression, and he called on the survivors to get an injection as soon as possible.

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