科学已经证明疫苗接种的重要性

文/多米尼克·伯特兰 （Dominique Bertrand）

今年的中关村论坛主题集中在人类的三个基本领域：智慧·健康·碳中和。通过这三个主题，我希望在2021—2022年能够采取一种特殊的治疗方式来控制感染新冠肺炎死亡的人数，因为如果没有这种全球性的动员，死亡人数会更多。当然因各国的情况而异，不要忘记1918年至1921年的西班牙流感，人们只注意到抗击疫情所取得的成果，却忽略了科学和技术也受到了影响。

This year’s themes for the Zhong Guan Cun covered three fundamental areas of human beings: Intelligence, Health, and Carbon Neutrality. With these three themes, special treatments can be adopted, in 2021—2022, to reduce infections and the death toll, thus ending COVID–19. Without a worldwide mobilization like this, there will be more deaths. True conditions in each country vary. Don’t forget the Spanish flu from 1918 to 1921. We tend to notice the achievements made in the anti–Covid efforts but ignore the hard truth that science and technology are affected by it.

首先，在了解新冠病毒及其传染性方面，展开的研究从未如此之多。这使得采取适当措施阻止新冠病毒的蔓延成为可能，可以通过生物学的方法来检测新冠病毒的传播，但也要在不加重感染的基础上，关注新冠病毒的变异能力和更强的传染能力。

First, never before have we done so much research to learn about a pandemic like the COVID–19 virus. The circumstances and locations of contamination can be quickly identified, making it possible to take appropriate measures to limit the spread of the epidemic. Thus, biological countermeasures can be used to detect and deter the spread of COVID–19. However, we must also pay attention to COVID–19’s mutability and contagious power.

其次，对于严重疾病的攻克，医学领域出版了众多以临床为重点的科学出版物，这使得对于有症状病人的治疗具有了统一性。目前关于治疗新冠肺炎的特效药研究不断取得进展，科学研究也提供了相关诊疗方法，为人们在无计可施时提供了战胜疾病的信心。

Second, numerous scientific publications in medical science have focused on clinical trials which, make it possible to apply unified treatment for symptomatic patients. Although there is no wonder drug to cure the COVID–19 virus, such research provides treatment for patients when there is no way out.

The third point is about prevention. If a vaccine is taken as an effective anti-Covid weapon, tracking and isolating the infected are equally important. China has done a great job in tracking and isolation. There was a short time to respond to the COVID–19 outbreak. At the beginning of the epidemic, masks were in dire need, and the wide use of digital applications to track close contacts was also affected. When highly contagious COVID–19 cases broke out in a row, social distancing became extremely important. In the beginning, gatherings of all kinds were banned.

再次，如果疫苗作为最主要的抗疫武器，那对于感染者的追踪和隔离对抗疫也起到了重要作用，中国在这方面做得很好。新冠肺炎疫情暴发的反应时间短，暴发初期口罩供不应求，追踪密切接触者的数字化程序的普及也受到了影响。当连续发生了极具传染性的新冠病毒感染事件时，保持社交距离至关重要。起初禁止所有类型的聚集，之后参照感染最轻地区的情况，逐渐增强防疫措施。……