The Chinese doctor who tried to warn others about Coronavirus

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The Chinese doctor who tried to warn others about coronavirus

By Stephanie Hegarty
Population Correspondent

Dr Li Wenliang, who was hailed a hero for raising the alarm about the
coronavirus in the early days of the outbreak, has died of the infection.

His death was confirmed by the Wuhan hospital where he worked and was
being treated, following conflicting reports about his condition on
state media.

Dr Li, 34, tried to send a message to fellow medics about the outbreak
at the end of December. Three days later police paid him a visit and
told him to stop. He returned to work and caught the virus from a
patient. He had been in hospital for at least three weeks.

He posted his story from his hospital bed last month on social media
site Weibo.

"Hello everyone, this is Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan
Central Hospital," the post begins.


It was a stunning insight into the botched response by local authorities
in Wuhan in the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak.

Dr Li was working at the centre of the outbreak in December when he
noticed seven cases of a virus that he thought looked like Sars - the
virus that led to a global epidemic in 2003. The cases were thought to
come from the Huanan Seafood market in Wuhan and the patients were in
quarantine in his hospital.
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On 30 December he sent a message to fellow doctors in a chat group
warning them about the outbreak and advising they wear protective
clothing to avoid infection.

What Dr Li didn't know then was that the disease that had been
discovered was an entirely new coronavirus.

Four days later he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau where he
was told to sign a letter. In the letter he was accused of "making false
comments" that had "severely disturbed the social order".

"We solemnly warn you: If you keep being stubborn, with such
impertinence, and continue this illegal activity, you will be brought to
justice - is that understood?" Underneath in Dr Li's handwriting is
written: "Yes, I do."

He was one of eight people who police said were being investigated for
"spreading rumours".

At the end of January, Dr Li published a copy of the letter on Weibo and
explained what had happened. In the meantime, local authorities had
apologised to him but that apology came too late.

For the first few weeks of January officials in Wuhan were insisting
that only those who came into contact with infected animals could catch
the virus. No guidance was issued to protect doctors.

But just a week after his visit from the police, Dr Li was treating a
woman with glaucoma. He didn't know that she had been infected with the
new coronavirus.

In his Weibo post he describes how on 10 January he started coughing,
the next day he had a fever and two days later he was in hospital. His
parents also fell ill and were taken to hospital.

It was 10 days later - on 20 January - that China declared the outbreak
an emergency.

Dr Li says he was tested several times for coronavirus, all of them came
back negative.


On 30 January he posted again: "Today nucleic acid testing came back
with a positive result, the dust has settled, finally diagnosed."

He punctuated the short post with an emoji of a dog with its eyes rolled
back, tongue hanging out.

Not surprisingly the post received thousands of comments and words of
support.

"Dr Li Wenliang is a hero," one user said, worrying about what his story
says about their country. "In the future, doctors will be more afraid to
issue early warnings when they find signs of infectious diseases."

"A safer public health environment… requires tens of millions of Li
Wenliang."