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Remembering Li Wenliang: The 'whistleblower' doctor who sounded the COVID alarm
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On the anniversary of the death of a Chinese whistleblower doctor who shared information about the coronavirus a year ago, a small stream of visitors placed flowers outside the hospital where the first case of the virus was detected in his memory. Li Wenliang became a folk hero in China after he was revealed to be one of eight whistleblowers who local authorities had punished early on for “spreading rumors” after he had shared information about a SARS-like virus in a social media group.
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