(Beijing Bloomberg) The Chinese government's epidemic prevention policy turns greatly, which has caused many Chinese people to lose trust in officials and experts and turn to the recipes of Internet celebrities and stars on social media to seek treatment or prevent infection.
After the Chinese epidemic prevention measures are loosened in just a few weeks, the infection cases have rapidly increased, and the virus is still spreading in cities that have no experience in crown disease.
As the policy turns, health officials headed by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, to dilute the severity from the danger of warning crown disease.
"Suggesting experts not to mention suggestions" entries have appeared on Weibo hot search in December 2022, reflecting the people's resistance to official proposals.
This has caused some Chinese people to pay attention to the advice of Internet celebrities and other netizens who lack professional medical knowledge to obtain treatment or avoid crown disease.Searching for "Preventing New Crown" on Weibo can query the nasal rinse and "Agai Niuhuang Wan".
Inquiries on the treatment of common crown disease on the Internet in China can search for a large number of recipes, such as whether XBB strains will cause diarrhea, how to treat crown diseases, etc., including being vegetarian, taking multiple antibodies, and even evenBuy illegal enzymes with the Internet celebrity.
The lack of accurate health information has caused at least one tragedy.Due to the unable to buy an antipyretic medicine, a four -family of Inner Mongolia fever was taken with veterinary medicine, causing liver failure of the two children.
Cai Yaoquan, an associate professor of informatics at Nanyang University of Technology, said: "If the reputation of public experts has been repeatedly damaged in major events in the future, it will be difficult to regain confidence in the public."
Last year, Weibo deleted more than 82,274 contents marked as unprepared information, but there was no specific explanation that it was related to crown disease.
Chinese officials notified the week before the Spring Festival holiday, a week before the Spring Festival holiday, 12,658 new cases related to coronal virus were added.Due to the worried infection of crown disease, Lisa (transliteration) of Shanghai residents in her 60s spent thousands of dollars, and bought enzyme drinks and eye drops recommended by a "Yoga Master" with millions of fans in Douyin, and said that they did not care about these.The product does not have a significant production date, certification or production area label.
In order to verify the facts and give accurate health suggestions, 33 -year -old Shanghai PR manager Liu Haidi (transliteration) created multiple groups with friends with a medical background on WeChat.
But she said that people who could not stop people including their own family believed in unconfirmed information. "People are more likely to be affected now, because everyone is anxious about crown disease. Everything is terrible and everything is unknown."
