Recently, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Comprehensive Team of the State Council issued the Work Plan for Strengthening the Prevention and Control of the COVID-19 and Health Services in Rural Areas, which requires all localities to effectively implement the responsibilities of territorial subjects, coordinate and integrate resources and forces in all aspects, and form a strong joint force to scientifically and effectively respond to the epidemic and do a good job in health services in all aspects and chains in rural areas. Rural areas are key areas that cannot be ignored, and rural people are key groups that cannot be ignored. Now, many infected people in the city have gradually recovered, streets and alleys are gradually bustling, and many cities are slowly recovering. In contrast, in some rural areas with a small population, the virus has not yet spread on a large scale, and the risk of epidemic transmission and spread in rural areas is increasing. The New Year's Day and Spring Festival holidays are coming, and the large-scale mobility of personnel will accelerate the spread of the epidemic. We should seize the current time window to build up the epidemic prevention barrier in rural areas. China's rural areas have a population of 500 million, of which the elderly, children and vulnerable people with basic diseases account for a relatively high proportion. This special population structure determines that rural areas are naturally vulnerable to epidemic prevention. At the same time, the total amount of medical resources in rural areas is insufficient and the distribution is uneven, resulting in relatively weak epidemic prevention capacity in rural areas. In the face of this objective reality, we need to find ways to make up for weaknesses, strengths and weaknesses, give full play to our subjective initiative, make good use of all available resources, make scientific plans around the goal of protecting health and preventing severe diseases, and prepare all medical treatment resources. Not long ago, the relevant person in charge of the National Health Commission pointed out that in the short term, we can respond to problems by sending secondary and tertiary hospitals to the grass-roots level, recruiting retired medical personnel in the past five years, and enriching health professionals in other posts to the grass-roots medical and health institutions. These are practical measures to tap potential medical resources and prepare medical treatment resources. In addition, returning medical college students can also help prevent epidemics; Idle grassroots sports venues and facilities can also become temporary clinics after simple transformation; There are also scientific and technological means such as Internet hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, which should also be included in the rural war epidemic. As far as the present situation is concerned, it is generally difficult to find a single antipyretic drug in rural areas. If the spread of the epidemic is uncertain, ensuring the supply of drugs, especially antipyretic drugs, is a sure and necessary option to comprehensively implement the optimized prevention and control measures. Pharmaceutical enterprises are fully engaged in production and logistics are opening up green channels. Only when emergency medicine supply is stable, can rural epidemic prevention have a stable foundation. At the end of the year, the Spring Festival is coming. After three years of fighting against the epidemic, many people have more expectations for their homecoming reunion this year. Not long ago, Academician Zhang Boli also said in an interview that "this year will probably be a year of reunion", which shows the ardent aspirations of many people. It is expected that with the joint efforts of the whole society, all regions can do well in rural epidemic prevention in a down-to-earth and orderly manner, minimize the threat of COVID-19 to the health of the elderly and patients with serious basic diseases, make the road home more smooth, and make the year of reunion more warm! (Outlook New Times)