This Wuhan doctor was targeted by police for trying to blow the whistle on the deadly coronavirus in the early weeks of the outbreak. Then, after unwittingly treating a patient who had the virus, he caught it too.
On December 30, Li Wenliang dropped a bombshell in his medical school alumni group on the popular Chinese messaging app WeChat: seven patients from a local seafood market had been diagnosed with a SARS-like illness and quarantined in his hospital.
Li explained that, according to a test he had seen, the illness was a coronavirus -- a large family of viruses that includes severe acute respiratory syndrome . Memories of SARS run deep in China, where a pandemic in 2003 killed hundreds following a government cover up."I only wanted to remind my university classmates to be careful," he said.
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