Pandemic as an Ideological Dead End of Modern Medicine
Journal Title: Journal of Surgery Research and Practice - Year 2021, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
For most people on our planet, the beginning of the current COVID-19 pandemic was a complete surprise and looks like a sudden disaster. However, experts do not have the right to argue in this way, since the cause of this disaster has long been known to medicine. Moreover, similar epidemics of this infection have already been observed in the recent past, had a very similar scenario, but with less coverage of the population and territories. The identity of the causative agent of today's pandemic with the two previous outbreaks, SARS in 2002-2004 and MERS in 2012-2013, is even reflected in the terminology - CoV, CoV-1 and CoV-2 [1]. The above information contradicts the surprise factor in the current pandemic. Medicine has already had experience in combating the spread of coronavirus infection and could provide and develop a set of measures and therapeutic and preventive measures in the event of the return of such phenomena. There was enough time for this, especially since outbreaks of infection were repeated. In addition, in the last couple of decades, there has been an increase in the proportion of viral lesions among patients with Acute Pneumonia (AP) [2]. The annual number of such diseases in the world was estimated at 200 million cases [3]. The latter indicator was 4 times higher than the overall indicator of the current pandemic, but this situation was not accompanied by an epidemiological and social boom, as in the current period. But it should be emphasized that this is not just about quantity. If in previous years the total indicator reflected the number of cases, today this figure shows the number of infected people, many of whom do not develop the disease.
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Igor Klepikov
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- DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.46889/JSRP.2020.2102
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