According to the disease and death rate of confirmed cases, as of 24:00 on February 3, the disease and death rate of confirmed cases nationwide was 2.1%, with deaths mainly concentrated in Hubei Province, where the disease and death rate of confirmed cases was 3.1%. The number of deaths in Wuhan is 313, accounting for 74% of the national death toll, and the death rate of confirmed cases in Wuhan is 4.9%, while the death rate in other provinces besides Hubei is 0.16%. From this set of figures, we can see that the main death is still in Hubei, the other provinces of the country, although the number of cases is not small, but the vast majority of cases are light. Why is the death rate higher in Wuhan than elsewhere? In the CCTV “News 1+1” program broadcast on the evening of the 4th, Jiang Rongmeng, a member of the National Health and Wellness Commission expert group and chief physician of the Department of Infection at Beijing Ditan Hospital, responded: First, the number of cases in Wuhan is high; second, Wuhan’s current medical resources and its ICU team are not enough to deal with this serious illness. For example, in Beijing and Guangdong, ten doctors may see one patient, but in Wuhan, one doctor may see ten patients, so the work pressure can be imagined. Some netizens asked, the virus left Wuhan, the harm will decay? Jiang Rongmeng said: This does not exist, the virus will not be decayed. Most of the people who left Wuhan are young people, they went to the provinces after the onset of the disease, one is young, the second is better treatment, so the death rate is not high. Wuhan, on the other hand, has more local cases in the elderly and more severe cases, thus also making the lethality rate higher than the national level. So, will Wuhan’s difficult-to-reach bed situation improve soon? Jiang Rongmeng introduced: more than 7,000 medical staff from across the country to support Hubei will arrive to take over the hospital wards in Wuhan. But the hospital needs to make process changes or set up a buffer period against infection, etc., which will take time. In addition, 1,000 ICU nurses are being transferred from across the country and 1,000 additional ICU beds are being added. In addition, 3,400 beds were remodeled in the gymnasium specifically for the treatment of mildly ill patients. Content source: Beijing Daily