新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情显示出当前公共卫生法治体系的缺陷，应尽快修改完善《传染病防治法》：完善新发传染病防治的制度设计，确立新发传染病监测的风险预防原则，加强流行病学调查的法治保障；坚持疫情防控的多元协同，厘清中央和地方政府的责任，充分发挥专家和公众的作用；改革疫情信息发布制度，解决法律冲突问题，优化信息直报制度和直报系统；遵循疫情防控中的比例原则，保障防疫措施的妥当性、必要性和均衡性。“,”The COVID-19 pandemic shows the defects of current public health law system and the necessity of the amendment to Law on Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases. The institutional design of the prevention and control of emerging communicable disease shall be modified and Principle of Preventive Legislation shall be determined. Following the multicultural coordination in the pandemic prevention and control, the responsibilities of the central and local government shall be clarified and the functions of the experts and the public need to work fully and effectively. Current pandemic information release system shall be reformed to solve the conflict of laws and the information direct system shall be optimized. Principle of proportionality shall be obeyed to protect the appropriateness, necessity and balance of the pandemic prevention and control measures.