Wang Zhou - The Coronavirus Prevention Handbook (Covid-19)

Copyright 2020 Hubei Science and Technology Press

Originally published by Hubei Science and Technology Press, Wuhan, China. The world translation rights is exclusively represented by Rightol Media

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Chief Editor: Wang Zhou

Reviewed by Yongjian Xu

Foreword by Nanshan Zhong

Translated by Shan Zhu, Qing Chen, Jun Li

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Print ISBN: 978-1-5107-6241-1

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Words from the Translators

In this era of globalization, non-stop movements of humans and goods make no country immune to the potential threat of epidemics. Since 2003, emergent contagious diseases such as the avian influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome, SARS, and Ebola reminded us human beings once and again of the grave threat that they pose to the human health and the economic and social security.

While the spread of COVID-19 is gradually being contained in China, the world is facing several new hot spots such as Japan, South Korea, Iran, and Italy. So, dissemination of the knowledge and know-hows of the prevention and control of the epidemic is urgent and essential not only for China but also for the world.

In the early days of the outbreak, China promptly shared its understanding of the virus with the world through the World Health Organization. Tested and tempered by the viral epidemic such as SARS epidemic, the frontline professionals and experts at the epicenterWuhan, decided to share their invaluable experiences and lessons drawn from the current outbreak as well as during their careers in China and various countries in the form of the Handbook of Prevention and Control of COVID-19 in Chinese.

To prepare non-Chinese speakers for personal protection, contain the global spread of 2019-nCoV, and share Chinese solutions to the epidemic with the world, the publishing house invited the Translators Association of China to promote the translation program. Under their guidance, the Center for Medical Language Service of Guangdong University of Foreign Languages was nominated for this mission and, shortly recruited the volunteers who worked with an all-out effort and completed the work in time.

This book, especially the measures that individuals and communities can adopt at the time of an outbreak, might serve as an important source of information on the prevention and control of both the present and future epidemics. Even if Chinas experiences do not apply to all countries in the same manner, they should serve as valuable references.

The intended readership of this book includes health professionals and the public, and archiving of the book may be suggested for public and professional, academic libraries. Readers can find topics of their interest in the contents page and jump directly to the relevant pages without finishing the preceding ones.

Despite our best efforts to review and proofread, unintended errors may remain in the book. The responsibility lies with all of us, and comments and suggestions for the improvement of translation are much appreciated.

Translation Team

February 2020

Those who contribute to the English version are as follows.

Translation Counselors

Dr. Ping Yang, Translators Association of China

Ruilin Li, School of Interpreting and Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Translators

Shan Zhu, School of Foreign Studies, China University of Petroleum(Huadong)

Dr. Qing Chen, Center for Medical Language Service, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Dr. Jun Li, School of Medical Humanities, Peking University

Gao Chen, Guangzhou Bon-lion Tech Co., Ltd.

Kuan-Hung Chen, First-Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University

Shane Lau, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Fengyuan Yang, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Medical University

Li Li, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine

Lin Shen, Guangdong university of Foreign Studies

Bilingual Proofreader

Dr. Jongdae Lee, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Medical University

Contents

Editorial Board

Reviewer

Yongjian Xu (Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology)

Editor-in-Chief

Wang Zhou (Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention)

Deputy Editors-in-Chief

Qiang Wang (School of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology)

Ke Hu (Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University)

Zaiqi Zhang (Hunan University of Medicine)

Mengmei Wang (Peoples Hospital of Wuhan University)

Xiaochen Xiang (School of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology)

Yongxi Zhang (Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University)

Weimin Chen (Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University)

Siyang Chen (School of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology)

Xiaomao Jin (Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention)

Yang Zhao (Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University)

Xiafen Hu (School of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology)

Kaiwen Guo (School of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology)

Na Zhan (Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University)

Introduction to Editors-in-Chief

Wang Zhou , MD, Chief Physician (Level 2) of Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Senior Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2005 to 2006.

Funded by the 213 Talent Project by Wuhan Municipal Peoples Government in 2003;

Funded by Huanghe Talent Program by Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2015;

Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan University

Director, Chinese Association for STD and AIDS Prevention and Control;

Executive director, Hubei Preventive Medicine Association,

Vice chairman and secretary-general, Wuhan Branch, Chinese Preventive Medicine Association;

Director, Wuhan Association for STD/AIDS Prevention and Treatment;

Member of editorial board, Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine and Chinese Journal of Viral Diseases.

Rich experience in epidemiology and control of contagious diseases;

Principal investigator, research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (US), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Health Commission of China, and the Hubei Health Commission

Winner of four Science and Technology Progress Awards of Hubei Province or Wuhan City;

First/corresponding author of more than 50 academic journal articles (over 20 in SCI/SSCI journals).