First: offer sacrifices to heaven and pray for forgiveness.
In ancient times, because of superstition, I didn't know there was a virus at all. When there is a plague, they will think it is a punishment from heaven. Therefore, after the ancient plague, the king would lead officials from all over the country to hold a ceremony to worship heaven, just to reflect on and worship his ancestors and heaven, hoping that God would bless his people through the disaster. But obviously this method is useless and a complete waste of manpower and material resources.
Second: the court allocated funds for medication.
When the epidemic breaks out, the imperial court will certainly allocate funds from the national treasury and then distribute medicines to patients in the epidemic area free of charge. Of course, there were no specific drugs, just some antiviral drugs. Moreover, these medicines were not only given to villagers, but also poured into wells and rivers in large quantities, because ancient plague outbreaks were often related to water sources.
Third: block the villages where the epidemic broke out to prevent further infection.
When an epidemic breaks out in a village, the court will send troops or court officials to block the whole village to prevent the sick people from continuing to escape and infect others. Generally, when troops are stationed, villages will be managed in a more orderly manner. Once someone dies, they should be buried or burned and disinfected immediately.
Fourth: send doctors to the front line to step up the formulation of treatment prescriptions.
Once the epidemic breaks out, basically the imperial doctors and Jianghu doctors in the palace will be assigned to study drugs, and these doctors will consult their medical skills and formulate prescriptions for treating the plague urgently. Then let the seriously ill patients take it continuously to see the effect. Once the prescription is found to be effective, let the villagers take it as soon as possible. Of course, this process will take a long time, and even now it is impossible to develop a specific drug to treat the virus in a short time. So in ancient times, a plague was likely to kill everyone in a village.