“Doctor Li was widely considered a hero in China.” This is how Li Wenliang is presented by the New York Times in an article and a long video investigation published on October 6 (see below). The newspaper describes the 34-year-old Chinese doctor, an ophthalmologist at a hospital in Wuhan, as “one of the first people in the world to have alerted” on the new coronavirus, well “before Covid-19 had a name”.
From the start of 2020, the virus spread rapidly in Wuhan, recalls the New York Times. On January 12, Li Wenliang is hospitalized “due to fever, lung infection and other symptoms”. Three days later, his state of health deteriorated seriously and he was placed on respiratory assistance.
In the medical documents analyzed by the New York daily, doctors write that Li “mentally suffered and that a depressive state had been diagnosed”. “This detail had never been revealed”, raises the investigation.
A few weeks before his hospitalization, Li Wenliang was summoned by the police for having reported in a private WeChat messaging group the appearance of a new virus in the city. Afterwards, “he wrote ‘a letter of apology’ at the request of his employer, Wu Central Hospital