Strategies and implications for improving the cure rate of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia in Wuhan

Abstract

COVID-19 has been continuously spreading around the world. As a city where COVID-19 epidemic emerged early, Wuhan has experienced all phases of the disease. The run of medical resources and rapid community spread resulted in low cure rate at the early stage of the epidemic. The cure rate significantly increased from 16% on February 21 to 92.2% on April 24 by application of stringent measures. On the one hand, these measures opened up a battlefield for “treatment of severe patients” in designated hospitals by pooling medical resources. On the other hand, they created a second battlefield for the prevention of the spread of the epidemic by setting up Makeshift(FangCang) Hospitals, isolation points and innovating the community management mode, and formed a barrier for the transformation of mild disease into severe disease. Till today, the widespread infections in other countries, still claims many lives. This article summarized the key points of the strategies in Wuhan, and provided a reference for the prevention and control of a global epidemic in the future.