Coronavirus Whistleblower Dies From The Disease

昨夜，李文亮医生去世。

2月6日23点25分，世界卫生组织(WHO)在推特发文：

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr Li Wenliang. We all need to celebrate work that he did on 2019nCoV.

“我们沉痛悼念李文亮医生的去世。我们所有人都应该向他为抵抗新型冠状病毒肺炎而作出的贡献致敬。”

WHO Twitter

李医生的去世，受到了全世界媒体的关注，以下是 NPR 的报道，点击这里播放音频：▼

以下是NPR News文字报道，和音频内容大体一致，但不是逐词对应的。

Coronavirus Whistleblower Dies From The Disease In China

A Chinese doctor who was among the first to blow the whistle on the new coronavirus has died from the disease, the hospital treating him said on social media early Friday local time.

Li Wenliang, 34, an ophthalmologist based in Wuhan, was reprimanded in early January by local police authorities for “publishing falsehoods” after he mentioned in a WeChat group seven cases of a virus similar to SARS from a seafood market.

News of Li’s death has triggered millions of reactions on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter. Most posts mourned him, called him a hero and commented with candle emojis, some with mourning poems. When Li was in critical condition late Thursday and early Friday local time, millions of people flocked to a livestream operated by local media outside the hospital.

Among the outpouring of grief, some asked for accountability and transparency surrounding his treatment and the larger picture of authorities’ response to the virus.

The topics “Wuhan government owes Dr. Li Wenliang an apology” and “We want freedom of speech” soon began to trend on Weibo, before being deleted, CNN reported.

In a now-deleted interview with Beijing Youth Daily in late January, Li said that the report on SARS is not entirely accurate, although he didn’t mean to be misleading. He also didn’t mean to spread the information widely.

But he was trying to warn his old classmates, many of whom were practicing clinicians. He said he was later infected after treating a female patient with “unknown pneumonia.”

On his personal Weibo account one week before he died, Li recounted his journey from seeing the coronavirus test result, to being reprimanded by the authorities for disrupting the social order, to being hospitalized.

“I was hospitalized on the 12th. At that time, I was still wondering, ‘Why is there no announcement of people-to-people transmission, and why are no medical workers getting infected?’” he wrote.

He was diagnosed with coronavirus the next day. “The dust is settled now.”

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