The Experience From Front-Line Leaders in China: Session 1: Strategies for Controlling the Pandemic
Hear Chen Wang, MD, PhD, FCCP, describe how the Fangcang Shelter hospitals were employed for the admission of asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients to stem infection spread. Jieming Qu, MD, PhD, highlights the approach used in Shanghai, which successfully suppressed the curve and demonstrates a strategy for a city-wide defense.
Moderated by Stephanie Levine, MD, FCCP; Renli Qiao, MD, FCCP; and Christopher Carroll, MD, FCCP
Speaker Bios:
Chen Wang, MD, PhD, FCCP, President of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, President of Chinese Association of Chest Physicians, Honorary President of the Chinese Thoracic Society. Dr. Wang is stationed in Wuhan for the COVID-19 epidemic and is still there. He invented the idea of the Fangcang Shelter Hospital which is the crucial step that has brought the disastrous epidemic in Wuhan under control.
Jieming Qu, MD, PhD, Professor of PCCM in Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai. President of Chinese Thoracic Society. Dr Qu developed his career in pulmonary infections and is one of the experts in the action against COVID-19 in Shanghai. Shanghai, a metropolitan with population of 22 million and expected to be the second disaster area, had only 400 cases and 4 deaths.