In addition to the "short time" to determine what other technologies do the pathogen help to prevent the epidemic prevention and control?

Author:Cover news Time:2022.08.25

Cover news reporter Shao Meng

On August 25, the National Health Commission held a press conference to introduce the progress of health and science and technology innovation and medical education in the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Science and technology is a powerful weapon for human struggles with the disease. Liu Dengfeng, a supervisory commissioner of the Science and Education Department of the National Health and Health Commission, said that science and technology is the first productive forces and is no exception in the prevention and control of major epidemic.

Liu Dengfeng, Supervisory Commissioner of the Department of Science and Education of the National Health and Health Commission. Picture source: China Net

What technological innovation has helped the epidemic prevention and control? Liu Dengfeng introduced that after the new crown epidemic, the National Health and Health Commission did the following aspects:

First, the "one hammer" quickly determines the pathogen. For example, relying on the advantage platform, advantageous team, and scientific research capabilities accumulated in the early stage, the new coronary virus was determined in a week, the poisonous strains were separated, the sequences were spliced, and the world was shared to the world. Highly evaluation. The identification of the pathogen is the basic work of scientific prevention and control. The pathogen is determined to have the proposal of the subsequent diagnostic reagents, drugs and related treatment strategies.

The second is to rapidly develop a series of diagnostic products. Within two weeks of outbreak, high -sensitivity and specific new coronary virus nucleic acid detection technology has been rapidly developed, which has played a vital role for early diagnosis and positive infection. In the subsequent prevention and control work, in order to cope with input cases, resumption of work, re -production, and re -school played a role.

Third, in the field of vaccine research and development, the National Health and Health Commission, as the deputy leader unit of the Science and Technology Customs Customs Research Team of the Joint Defense and Control Mechanism, has undertaken important tasks such as drug development, vaccine research and development, and related clinical trials. Design five technical routes, organize superior teams to carry out scientific and technological research, and lay a solid foundation for subsequent new crown vaccines. The first technology standard for the world's first high biological safety risk vaccine production workshop. With this standard, the construction workshop can achieve hundreds of millions of new crown vaccine production, which all rely on the accumulation of major science and technology. Therefore, so far, we are far ahead in the output and variety of vaccines. Nine vaccines have been approved by the National Drug Administration to go public or urgently use, and 3 emergency collection of WHO.

Fourth, in terms of drug research and development, from the beginning, the State Health and Health Commission has organized the related work of drug research and development. It has done a lot of work on pre -clinical research, antibody screening, clinical trial channels, and approval of the clinical trial channels. Platforms and teams based on drug screening, vaccine research and development, and clinical evaluation based on my country's major special accumulated drugs quickly promoted successful listing such as neutralization of antibodies, chemical drugs and Chinese medicine.

Fifth, the construction of the talent team, the efforts of medical education science and technology workers have strongly supported the prevention and control of the epidemic. From the early 2020 to the present, they have been fighting the front line of the epidemic prevention and control. The good style of the team.