Japanese student COVID-19 was misdiagnosed as "heatstroke". What does this mean?

According to Japanese media reports, due to the hot weather in Japan, the number of people suffering from heatstroke has increased. At the same time, because the symptoms related to human heatstroke are similar to those of COVID-19 infection, many Japanese hospitals misdiagnose the new coronary pneumonia as heatstroke. As the global COVID-19 epidemic is still in the epidemic stage and has not been completely eradicated, the prevention and control measures and attitudes towards the epidemic should be at the forefront. Misdiagnosis of coronary pneumonia as heatstroke this time is of great significance and needs people's attention.

1. exposed the shortage of related medical equipment. Because the initial symptoms of heatstroke are accompanied by fever and fatigue, this phenomenon is very similar to the initial symptoms of COVID-19. Therefore, there are often misunderstandings in the related diagnosis of these two diseases. In addition, due to the hot weather, the number of heatstroke has increased sharply, and it is easy to misdiagnose new coronary pneumonia as heatstroke. Although this misdiagnosis is within a reasonable range, it also reflects one aspect of the lack of capacity of related medical equipment. Misdiagnosis occurred because all patients were not tested for nucleic acid in time. Moreover, the related medical equipment can not be diagnosed clearly in a very short time, and the comprehensive judgment ability of related medical equipment still needs to be improved.

2. Exposed the Japanese weak awareness of COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control. Relevant investigation reports show that misdiagnosis is not only aimed at individual cases, but at the specific facts of base occurrence and cross-infection. For example, due to negligence in prevention and control, several students infected with COVID-19 in a high school in Songjiang City were misdiagnosed as heatstroke, which eventually turned into an infection spread of nearly 100 people. It is precisely because the Japanese people's awareness of epidemic prevention and control is weak that the spread speed of the epidemic cannot be controlled in time, resulting in cases of cluster infection and cross-infection.

3. It means that the medical ability of Japanese people's medical institutions was misdiagnosed as heatstroke in this COVID-19 epidemic, all of which occurred in relevant medical institutions in Japan. In addition to the initial characteristics of heatstroke and infection, the treatment scope of Japanese medical institutions is limited. At the same time, due to the hot weather, the number of heatstroke patients has soared, which has greatly occupied a considerable part of medical resources. As a result, the relevant medical institutions relaxed the epidemic prevention and control, which led to the misdiagnosis of the confirmed cases in COVID-19 as poisoning. The collective occurrence of this misdiagnosis also reflects that the capabilities of Japanese medical institutions are very limited.