Wuhan doctor who was Coronavirus whistleblower dies from virus
Source: CNN World
Wuhan doctor who was Coronavirus whistleblower dies from virus
Dr. Li Wenliang the Chinese whistleblower doctor who warned the public of a potential "SARS-like" disease in December 2019 has died of coronavirus in Wuhan today, according to several state media reports.
Li was questioned by local health authority, and was later summoned by Wuhan police to sign a reprimand letter in which he was accused of "spreading rumors online" and "severely disrupting social order."
He was hospitalized on Jan. 12 after contracted the virus from his patient, and he was confirmed to have the coronavirus on Feb. 1.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-02-06-20-intl-hnk/index.html
deurbano
(2,895 posts)the general population than previously thought?
RIP, Dr. Wenliang, and condolences to his family, colleagues, patients and others whose lives he touched.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)The news report r indicated belief is that it happened inutero
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)But once the misinformation was out there, it is hard to corral.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)which could be considered such a condition.
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)He was ordered to sign a paper denying his warning about the virus but the information that he told them early on still got out to the world.
A healthy 34 year old is not normally at risk for a flu like virus.
He was an embarrassment for the Chinese government so it's very, very suspicious that he died.
I strongly suspect that he was eliminated deliberately.
Killing him is a punishment, a warning to others and he won't be able to be interviewed about the government later on and the story will die in the press.
littlemissmartypants
(22,692 posts)A surgery he performed on someone's eyes. That's when he caught the virus.
herding cats
(19,565 posts)He assumed he caught it from her.
Peace to him and his loved ones.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)How very sad. A brave young man.
Condolences to his family.
BTW, while he may have had online exchanges with members of the general public about the illness, he was also alerting other physicians as to what he was seeing.
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)Heartbreaking.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)dalton99a
(81,516 posts)Why the New Coronavirus (Mostly) Spares Children
So far, very few young children seem to be falling ill. The pattern was seen in outbreaks of SARS and MERS, too.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Feb. 5, 2020
The new coronavirus has infected more than 28,000 people, and at least 563 have died. But relatively few children appear to have developed severe symptoms so far, according to the available data.
The median age of patients is between 49 and 56 years, according to a report published on Wednesday in JAMA. Cases in children have been rare.
So why arent more children getting sick?
My strong, educated guess is that younger people are getting infected, but they get the relatively milder disease, said Dr. Malik Peiris, chief of virology at the University of Hong Kong, who has developed a diagnostic test for the new coronavirus.
Scientists may not be seeing more infected children because we dont have data on the milder cases, he said.
If this coronavirus spreads worldwide, and it spreads as widely as the seasonal flu does, probably well see more, he added.
The child, too, had signs of viral pneumonia in the lungs, doctors found but no outward symptoms. Some scientists suspect that this is typical of coronavirus infection in children.
Its certainly true that children can be either asymptomatically infected or have very mild infection, said Dr. Raina MacIntyre, an epidemiologist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, who has been studying the spread of the new coronavirus.
In many ways, this pattern parallels that seen during outbreaks of SARS and MERS, also coronaviruses. The MERS epidemics in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and in South Korea in 2015 together claimed more than 800 lives. Most children who were infected never developed symptoms.
No children died during the SARS epidemic in 2003, and the majority of the 800 deaths in the outbreak were in people over age 45, with men more at risk.
littlemissmartypants
(22,692 posts)Complicating the ability to confidently make differential diagnosis accurate. There's no doubt that China is playing catch up with overall management of what is shaping up to be a disaster.
Eugene
(61,900 posts)Source: New York Times
The doctor, Li Wenliang, had been silenced by the police after warning about the new coronavirus that has killed hundreds in China and sickened thousands.
By Li Yuan
Feb. 7, 2020
Updated 7:40 a.m. ET
They posted videos of the Les Misérables song, Do You Hear the People Sing. They invoked article No. 35 of Chinas Constitution, which stipulates freedom of speech. They tweeted a phrase from the poem For Whom the Bell Tolls.
The Chinese public have staged what amounts to an online revolt after the death of a doctor, Li Wenliang, who tried to warn of a mysterious virus that has since killed hundreds of people in China, infected tens of thousands and forced the government to corral many of the countrys 1.4 billion people.
Since late Thursday, people from different backgrounds, including government officials, prominent business figures and ordinary online users, have posted numerous messages expressing their grief at the doctors death and their anger over his silencing by the police after sharing his knowledge about the new coronavirus. It has prompted a nationwide soul-searching under an authoritarian government that allows for little dissent.
I havent seen my WeChat timeline filled with so much forlornness and outrage, Xu Danei, founder of a social media analytics company, wrote on the messaging platform WeChat.
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After speculation of Mr. Lis death began swirling online Thursday evening, the Communist Partys propaganda machine went into full gear, trying to control the message. But it didnt seem as effective as it had in the past.
The outpouring of messages online from sad, infuriated and grieving people was too much for the censors. ...
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/business/china-coronavirus-doctor-death.html