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

Wang, Linghang; Berendt, Anthony

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.