Talk:Zhong Nanshan

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I have added further references and sources and will continue to do so. I have also tried to link more relevant pages to this article. This person I believe does meet Wikipedia's general notability guidelines because the person is a famed pulmonologist who discovered the SARS virus. He was also recently voted by citizens as one of China's top 10 scientists.

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Style issues
I have made an effort to improve the style of the written english to better meet wikipedia's MOS.

However I still have concerns that too much of the information about Zhongs impact in the SARS case relies on a single source. It also contains many subjective appraisals eg. "the best" and "the most effective". I did not remove these however as I am unable to check the citation as it is in Mandarin Chinese. Specifically the claim that Zhong in some way instigated the response to SARS "This marked the beginning of the fight against SARS." This Kind of glorification is not in line with wikipedias editing policies, but I have left it in place to allow a citation to be found withing the original text to clarify the basis of this appraisal.

Please do not revert my deletions of subjective claims and revision sections with a narrative style --Willthewanderer (talk) 22:22, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Recommendations after Covid-19 ?
"(...)more should be done, he said, including an end to wildlife trade, better international cooperation on hygiene technology, improved operation of disease control centres, and a global “sentry” system to warn of potential epidemics. “If we have better cooperation and coordination, we can find it earlier and figure out the human-to-human transmission earlier,” he said during the roughly 90-minute interview, adding that the outbreak would not be quite so serious if such a system was in place.(...)" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-doctor-exclusive/exclusive-coronavirus-outbreak-may-be-over-in-china-by-april-expert-idUSKBN2050VF (https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/exclusive-qa-with-hong-kong-microbiologist-yuen-kwok-yung-who-helped-confirm)Jurbop (talk) 15:03, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

South China Morning Post, CNN, Science
Zhong Nanshan is an important medical scientist, not only because he did important scientific work on SARS and now SARS-CoV-2, but he also convinced the Chinese leadership of the correct public health policy. He was responsible for many US-China collaborations, and offered to share the Chinese experience with doctors around the world. He is one of the top scientists for rebutting the charges by the Trump Administration that the Chinese didn't cooperate with international agencies, that they withheld or delayed disclosing information, and that they were responsible for SARS-CoV-2 in the first place because of a laboratory accident (and most American scientists agree with Zhong). Significantly, he identified and disclosed the danger of COVID-19 to the Chinese central government, and on Chinese TV, on 20 January, which was soon after the Chinese scientists discovered it themselves. But, he argues, the US government ignored that warning. Zhong criticized the American effort under Trump for ignoring the scientists and listening to the politicians.

I just did a Google search for Zhong Nanshan and found some good material, particularly for the recent period since covid-19. South China Morning Post has coverage by reporters who understand the biology pretty well. Only problem is that there's too much of it, so you have to be selective. The Google search is

site:scmp.com Zhong Nanshan

or you can search scmp's own search engine

https://www.scmp.com/search/Zhong%20Nanshan

For example:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3086174/chinas-top-virus-warrior-shocked-us-coronavirus-death-toll China’s top virus warrior ‘shocked’ by US coronavirus death toll America’s response contrasts sharply with 17 years ago when authorities listened to experts and contained Sars to just over two dozen cases, Zhong Nanshan says Scientist unsurprised by persistence of conspiracy theories surrounding China and the new pathogen Guo Rui SCMP 26 May, 2020

“Seventeen years ago, the Sars epidemic was handled so well in the US, completely differently from the situation now,” said Zhong Nanshan....

But the main problem in the US was the failure to listen to medical experts, he said. As a result, US President Donald Trump “underestimated the disease’s infectious power as well as its harmful nature. He thought it was a big flu.”

US officials also did not listen to medical experts’ views concerning the reopening of the economy, he said.

...

Zhong said that while Wuhan officials had been slow in reporting the virus outbreak at the start, Beijing had been transparent in publicising information about the disease since late January.

“China shared the sequential analysis of the virus with the World Health Organisation on January 11 and reported cases every day since January 23 when Wuhan was put under lockdown,” he said.

“The rapidly rising number of cases in China after that served as a wake-up call to the world that this disease is very dangerous.

“Even if we may have been delayed, by January 23 our expert groups had given clear warnings that human transmissions had occurred and there had been infections among medical personnel. But the US only declared a national emergency on March 13.

“I really can’t see how this can be a cover-up.”

(The US has criticized China for withholding information about the COVID-19 outbreak, and the Chinese government has acknowledged that, at the beginning, the local Wuhan government officials tried to play down the importance of the epidemic. Zhong is widely credited with confronting the local officials and getting the actual numbers and facts, including the human-to-human transmission, which he then reported to the central government, and disclosed on TV news, on 20 January. He praised Dr. Li Wenliang, the ophthalmologist who was reprimanded for publicly disclosing the danger, and said, "I'm so proud of him.")

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/17/cnr.22.html The Dr. Fauci of China CNN Aired May 17, 2020 - 05:00  ET

On January 18th, five days before the city was shut down, Zhong traveled to the original epicenter of the outbreak. He questioned the local health officials.

ZHONG: In the beginning, they kept silent.

CULVER (voice-over): Zhong, who gained international praise for working on SARS 17 years ago, believed this rapidly spreading novel coronavirus was far more devastating than portrayed by Wuhan health officials.

ZHONG: I suppose they are very reluctant to answer my question. The local authorities did not like to tell the truth at that time.

CULVER (voice-over): Publicly, Wuhan health officials as late as January 19th labeled the virus as preventable and controllable. Later the city's mayor acknowledged not releasing information in a timely fashion.

Zhong pressed harder for the actual numbers and then headed to Beijing on January 20th. He briefed the central government. Within hours, he was addressing the nation in a live interview on state run CCTV. He said that human to human transmission was likely and, as proof of that, he said the virus had already infected multiple medical personnel.

Not much in Science, but Zhong did get into a fight at the Chinese Academy of Engineering to revoke the membership of a tobacco researcher (which is an understandable position for a pulmonologist). https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/03/tobacco-academician-focus-ire-annual-convention

--Nbauman (talk) 00:56, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Professional profile
Here's Zhong's own professional profile from the Journal of Thoracic Disease, of which he is editor-in-chief.

http://jtd.amegroups.com/about/editorInChief


 * Dr Prof Nanshan Zhong, MD (Edin), FRCS (Edin), FRCP (London), FRCP (Ireland), is a Medical Professor of Guangzhou Medical College, and a supervisor of respiratory medicine doctoral candidates. He was former President of Chinese Medical Association (2005-2009). He was named as ‘leader of clinical research in China’ by the Lancet.


 * He graduated from Beijing Medical College, majoring in medical sciences. From 1979 to 1981, Dr Zhong worked as a research associated at the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary, University of Edinburgh and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, University of London. He was the President of Chinese Thoracic Society (2000-2007), Former President of Chinese Medical Association (2005-2009). At present, he is the Director of Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, and Director-general of China State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases. In addition, he is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering since 1996, which is the highest academic position in the field of Medicine in China....


 * He first developed and refined the definition of asymptomatic asthma, later cited by WHO, through his originally designed “simple bronchial provocation test" and epidemiological surveys. In a systemic review of etiology of chronic cough in China, he elucidated the neuroinflammatory mechanisms to gastroesophageal reflux induced cough. His methods for in-exercise diaphragmatic function assessment for the first time revealed the presence of protein-energy malnutrition in even 60% of patients with early to middle stage COPD, which generated a correction equation of basic energy intake in this cohort. A national epidemiological study steered by him showed the unprecedented prevalence of COPD in China....

I don't think any Wikipedia editor (or Time magazine editor, for that matter) could describe Zhong's work as well as he does himself in this profile. The difficulty is that we can't just copy it (and it's too long). It would help to find a shorter description of his work that would list only the major achievements. --Nbauman (talk) 01:35, 28 November 2020 (UTC)