Biography of WHISTLEBLOWER ON CORONA - LI WENLIANG

 WHISTLEBLOWER ON CORONA - LI WENLIANG Biography


Life 

  1.  Li Wenliang was born on 12 October 1986 in
  2. Beizhen, Liaoning.He attended Beizhen High
  3. Schooland graduated with excellent academic
  4. performance.
  5. • In 2004, he scored 609 in the National College Entrance
  6. Examination (gaokao), and was admitted to Wuhan
  7. University School of Medicine as a clinical medicine
  8. student in a seven-year combined bachelor's and
  9. master's degree program.
  10. • He joined the Communist Party of China in his
  11. sophomore year





WHISTLEBLOWER ON CORONA



  1. • After graduation in 2011, Li worked at the Xiamen Eye Center of Xiamen
  2. University for three years.In 2014, Li became an ophthalmologist at Wuhan
  3. Central Hospital in Wuhan, China.
  4. • Li Wenliang's messages in the "Wuhan University Clinical Medicine 2004"
  5. Wechat group
  6. on 30 December 2019
  7. • Li: There are 7 confirmed cases of SARS at Huanan Seafood Market.
  8. • Li: (Picture of diagnosis report)
  9. • Li: (Video of CT scan results)
  10. • Li: They are being isolated in the emergency department of our hospital's
  11. Houhu Hospital District.
  12. • Someone: Be careful, or else our chat group might be dismissed.
  13. • Li: The latest news is, it has been confirmed that they are coronavirus
  14. infections, but the exact virus is being subtyped.
  15. • Li: Don't circulate the information outside of this group, tell your family and
  16. loved ones to take caution.
  17. • Li: In 1937, coronaviruses were first isolated from chicken...
  18. On 30 December 2019, Li saw a patient's report which
  19. showed a positive result with a high confidence level for
  20. SARS coronavirus tests.
  21. • Li asked the WeChat group members to inform their
  22. families and friends to take protective measures. He was
  23. upset when the discussion gained a wider audience than
  24. he expected.
  25. • After screenshots of his WeChat messages were shared
  26. on Chinese forums and gained huge attention, the
  27. supervision department summoned him to talk, where he
  28. was blamed for leaking the informatio
  29.  On 3 January 2020, police from the Wuhan Public
  30. Security Bureau investigated the case and interrogated
  31. Li, giving him a warning notice and censuring him for
  32. "making false comments on the Internet".
  33. • He was made to sign a letter of admonition promising
  34. not to do it again.The police warned him that if he failed
  35. to learn from the admonition and continued to violate the
  36. law he would be prosecuted.
  37. • After the admonition, Li returned to work in the hospital
  38. and contracted the virus on 8 January. On 31 January,
  39. he published his experience in the police station with the
  40. letter of admonition on social media.


INFECTED



  2. • On 7 January, Li contracted the coronavirus when he
  3. saw an infected patient at his hospital. Li developed a
  4. fever and cough on 10 January, which soon became
  5. severe.
  6. • On 12 January, Li was admitted to intensive care at
  7. Houhu Hospital District, Wuhan Central Hospital, where
  8. he was quarantined, treated, and tested for the virus
  9. several times until he tested positive for the infection on
  10. 30 January. He was diagnosed with the virus infection on
  11. 1 February.
  12. • While hospitalized, Li posted a message online vowing
  13. to return to the front lines after his recovery.


DEATH



  1. • According to a colleague, Li's condition became critical
  2. on 5 February. On 6 February, while Li was on the
  3. phone with a friend, he told the friend that he was having
  4. trouble breathing and that his oxygen saturation had
  5. dropped to 85%.
  6. • His heartbeat stopped at 21:30.In social media posts, the
  7. Chinese state media reported that Li had died, but the
  8. posts were soon deleted.
  9. • The hospital announced that Li had died at 2:58 a.m. on
  10. 7 February 2020. During the confusion, more than 17
  11. million people were watching the live stream for his
  12. status updates.


Reaction


  1. • The World Health Organization posted on Twitter saying
  2. that it was "deeply saddened by the passing of Dr Li
  3. Wenliang" and "we all need to celebrate work that he did
  4. on #2019nCoV".

  6. • The death of Li provoked considerable grief and anger
  7. on the social media which became extended to a
  8. demand for freedom of speech.
  9. • The hashtag #wewantfreedomofspeech gained over 2
  10. million views and over 5,500 posts within 5 hours before
  11. it was removed by the censors, as were other related
  12. hashtags and posts.

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