Chapter 3270

Lu Xiaoya said she couldn't understand such instructions. Why couldn't the common people know the real numbers? Could it be that the common people were so ignorant? Would they panic as soon as they heard the real numbers?

In fact, Lu Xiaoya had been working in propaganda for many years and was already very familiar with this routine, but she had never really understood it. She also tried her best to write more reports reflecting reality and tried hard to adjust her mentality.

However, this time, the reports about SARS made her accumulated doubts reach a peak. She couldn't help but start pouring out to Su Xinghui. She believed that the published numbers were severely reduced, which was a misleading of the Chinese public and health departments and was irresponsible to the people's health.

Su Xinghui, of course, also understood Lu Xiaoya's troubles. He tried his best to comfort Lu Xiaoya on the phone. He said that it shouldn't be long before the country would publish these real data about SARS.

Although Lu Xiaoya didn't quite believe it, Su Xinghui's comfort still made her feel much better.

Su Xinghui also told Lu Xiaoya to pay attention to safety and not to get infected with SARS, because Lu Xiaoya was now engaged in reporting in this area and often had to deal with those medical staff, and medical staff often dealt with SARS patients. Although there was protective clothing, the probability of being infected with SARS was still much higher than that of ordinary people.

He knew Lu Xiaoya's character. Although Lu Xiaoya looked weak, in fact, she was a very dedicated person. When she was engaged in her work, she was not afraid of any danger. Therefore, Su Xinghui had to exhort her.

Lu Xiaoya promised Su Xinghui, and only then did Su Xinghui feel a little relieved.

Besides caring for his own family, Su Xinghui also called his relatives and friends in other provinces and cities to ask about their situation. The result was still good. Except for two classmates far away in Shangjun who were isolated because they had contact with suspected SARS patients, other relatives and friends had not been hit.

In fact, this is normal. Although the SARS epidemic looked fierce, in terms of the absolute number of infections, it didn't count for anything. In Su Xinghui's memory, at that time, the whole of China during the entire SARS outbreak had a total of about 10,000 SARS patients, even including suspected SARS patients. Compared with China's population of over one billion, this proportion was not high at all.

If compared with the famous epidemics like the No. 1 disease and No. 2 disease that broke out in history, this number was not worth mentioning at all. Therefore, the probability of Su Xinghui's relatives and friends being hit was very low.

Su Xinghui also felt that human power sometimes has its limits. He was already considered very powerful now, but if any relative really contracted SARS, he could only leave it to fate. This feeling was very bad, but it was real.

Su Xinghui now only hoped that no matter where he went, he would make the health and epidemic prevention system more perfect, so that the probability of such severe infectious diseases breaking out would be reduced to the lowest.

SARS not only broke out in China but also began to break out all over the world. However, it mainly broke out in Asian countries and was discovered relatively less in European and American countries. This may be because the origin of SARS was in Asia, or it may be because the health and epidemic prevention systems in European and American countries were relatively more perfect.

However, this disease, which could not be treated yet, still caused panic on a global scale. This also attracted the attention of the World Health Organization. They sent an expert group to China to observe and put great pressure on the Chinese government. They said that the Chinese government did not publish the accurate number of patients, which was unfavorable to the prevention and control of the epidemic.

The World Health Organization issued a travel warning, warning tourists to be cautious when traveling to China.

And countries around the world also began to put pressure on the Chinese government, hoping that they could publish the accurate number of patients. Such pressure made the Chinese government think of the previous suggestion of Yuedong Provincial Party Committee Secretary Lu Zhenghong regarding information disclosure. They began to discuss the matter of information disclosure again.

At the same time, an article on SARS prevention and treatment experience organized by Su Xinghui was published on the Hanhai website. This article combined Su Xinghui's SARS prevention and treatment experience from his previous life and this life and had already been proven to be very effective in Baozhou City. Therefore, this article suddenly became popular on the Internet, and almost all portal websites reprinted this article.

The SARS prevention and treatment situation in Baozhou City was also the best in Yanbei Province. By early April, the entire Yanbei Province had discovered nearly 200 SARS cases, but in Baozhou City, only a total of five SARS cases were discovered, making it the city with the fewest SARS cases in the entire Yanbei Province.

Precisely because the SARS prevention and treatment work in Baozhou City was done well and had results, this article suddenly became popular, and the health departments of many provinces printed this article and distributed it as propaganda material for SARS prevention and treatment in their provinces.

After the central high-level held an emergency meeting, the high-level had fully realized the severity and potential threat of atypical pneumonia and began to go all out to respond, taking various necessary emergency measures including personnel appointments and removals.

The next day, the government held a press conference again, announcing that the epidemic in Jingcheng had suddenly surged from the 21 cases previously concealed to 258 cases.

Just a few hours later, several senior cadres involved in concealing the epidemic were dismissed, and the Ministry of Health announced the implementation of a "daily epidemic reporting system."

This marked that the Chinese government moved onto the correct path of information disclosure, and this was also more than half a month earlier than in Su Xinghui's previous life, creating very good conditions for China's SARS prevention and treatment work to get on the right track.

In early April, several provincial leaders of Yuedong Province, headed by Lu Zhenghong, publicly participated in a spring long-distance running exercise. This was to show that the SARS epidemic in Yuedong Province had been effectively controlled. Their public appearance also boosted the confidence of the common people in Yuedong Province.