On the fifth day of the nucleic acid positive test, except for a little sore throat, Wu Liangping felt that he had almost recovered.

   "According to the original regulations of our hospital, as long as the nucleic acid test is negative for two consecutive days, you can return to work." Wu Liangping, a doctor in a Grade III A hospital in East China, said he was ready to return to the hospital in advance. With more and more positive diagnoses from doctors and nurses in the hospital, the hospital has already faced a serious shortage of staff. "It's too late to wait for nucleic acid for two days. Some departments have started to call the first batch of positive medical staff back to work, and the official notice will come sooner or later.

   On the other side, Zhao An, a physician in a municipal hospital in southwest China, has worked with his antigenic positive colleagues for three days. "Now that we have cancelled the nucleic acid of employees, I can't tell whether I have been infected, but I feel very tired."

   After 5 days of isolation at home, he returned to the front-line work

   Before that, we also contacted many doctors who were isolated at home because of positive nucleic acid. Several doctors said that although staying at home can temporarily rest the body, they are not relaxed mentally. "The staff of the department is limited, and they are all peers who support each other. The colleagues who still stick to their posts have been working for several days. I have recovered almost. I can also help colleagues share some pressure when I go back early. It will not be too hard for everyone to help each other."

   For many hospitals, the change is sudden. On December 9, the joint prevention and control pointed out in the press conference that fever clinics in hospitals above Grade II should be fully set up and fully opened; At the same time, hospitals cannot refuse to diagnose nucleic acid positive patients.

   "At that time, positive patients had already appeared in our hospital, and we were still screening the patients and staff in the hospital. The emergency and fever clinics were in a state of suspension." Xu Yan, who supports the fever clinic, said.

   According to the data from the press conference on the prevention and control of COVID-19 in Beijing held the day before yesterday, on December 11, 22000 patients were admitted to fever clinics in Beijing, 16 times as many as a week ago. The monitoring data of influenza like cases from December 5 to 11 showed that the number of influenza like cases monitored by hospitals above the second level in the city was 19000, 6.2 times higher than that of the previous week [1]. In the short term, a large number of patients poured into the fever clinic, which brought great pressure to the hospital.

   Liu Cheng, a surgeon in a tertiary hospital in Northeast China, felt the same way. "The hospital has set up a buffer ward, but the actual admission pressure is too high. The number of patients who need to enter the buffer ward is 6 times of our original capacity, and the ward simply cannot accommodate them." With the increasing number of nucleic acid positive patients in the hospital, the positive infection rate of doctors and nurses also increased.

   "The biggest feeling is fast and hidden. For example, our department hardly contacts patients with fever, but the infection rate of doctors and nurses is still high." Zhang Ancheng, a surgeon in a tertiary hospital in North China, has been living at home for 7 days with positive nucleic acid. According to his memory, many departments were "impacted" at a time, and the reduction of epidemic related personnel had a significant impact on the whole hospital. "At present, there are fewer patients in our undergraduate department, which has little impact on us, but the fever clinic and emergency department must bear the brunt."

   In Liu Cheng's hospital, due to the shortage of staff in the emergency buffer zone, the hospital asked other departments to secondment doctors in proportion to support. With the isolation of positive doctors and nurses at home, more and more people need to be seconded, and fewer and fewer doctors and nurses in the undergraduate department. "Now only one doctor in my original department can go out of the clinic, and I have been going out of the clinic every day for a week. Other departments have been working for several days."

   Due to the sharp decrease in the number of medical staff available for deployment, many positive medical staff began to return to work. Wu Liangping, who was isolated at home for five days, also received an internal notice from the hospital that night. Now, Zhao Anhe's hospital no longer carries out nucleic acid testing for employees. Doctors and nurses with symptoms can apply to rest at home, and those with positive symptoms can continue to work on their posts. "But it can not be said that it is asymptomatic, only that it is mild. Many people still have some sore throat and cough." Zhao Anhe said.