Ten Minutes with Dr Linghang Wang, Director of Infectious Diseases Emergency, Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Beijing Ditan Hospital

ABSTRACT

First and foremost, are there any key leadership messages you want to get out to our readership? Tell us a little bit about your leadership role and how it is changing as a result of the pandemic? I run the Emergency Department, and organise the day’s work in our Fever Clinic. Several days later, we began to deploy a nucleic acid test in our hospital, guided by technical support and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test reagents provided by the China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. [...]even if there is a vaccine eventually, we will still face the possibility of vaccine failure due to the inherent variability of RNA virus replication leading to mutant strains.