What is the significance of home isolation in residential areas?

Home isolation is not only a medical problem, but also a social problem.

On the premise of respecting science, home isolation needs to balance the epidemic curve, the carrying capacity of the medical system, the management ability at the grass-roots level and the will of the people.

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When the number of cases in a city is limited, all infected people will be isolated in designated hospitals and given corresponding treatment according to the severity of the disease. At the same time, the most effective way to avoid the spread of the epidemic is to isolate close contacts;

-When the number of cases increases and there are a large number of mild and asymptomatic infected people, the number of beds in designated hospitals will exceed the upper limit at a certain critical point. At this time, it is necessary to send the infected people with mild symptoms or below to the receiving hospital, otherwise it will directly penetrate the original medical system and affect the medical treatment of other patients. This is also an important reason why our country made this revision in the ninth edition of the guidelines for diagnosis and treatment in March this year;

—— When the number of cases continues to rise and exceeds the upper limit of the number of people isolated in hospitals in shelters, further adjustment is needed at this time, and home isolation of some newly infected people is considered, which is not as effective as centralized isolation in preventing the spread of the epidemic, but it is the only choice at this stage.

Public health is related to the health of the whole population, and its essence is various forms of collective protection. Whether people agree with the home isolation of infected people in this community is essentially to consider their own interests.

If, as in the past, the epidemic can be controlled quickly and most people are not at risk of infection, then more people may choose to let infected neighbors go to Fangcang Hospital.

However, in the case of a large-scale outbreak, when everyone finds himself facing a high risk of infection, the choice at this time may be to protect himself and his family in the future.