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Obviously his censorship by the Chinese government was dumb and harmful and obviously he was right about the virus. But I don't quite understand how an opthalmo

by leoh 7y ago

Obviously his censorship by the Chinese government was dumb and harmful and obviously he was right about the virus. But I don't quite understand how an opthalmologist would be equipped to identify Coronavirus. Does anyone have the details here?

snapetom 7y ago
He didn't identify Coronavirus specifically. He initially called them SARS cases. The message to his colleagues was along the line of, "hey, there's something going on here. We're seeing SARS again." After that, he was called into the police department for "rumormongering."
aarongray 7y ago
I think what happened was that the initial doctors who identified the coronavirus cases were told to keep silent by the authorities and hospital. Li happened to see some of these reports and he notified other doctors in the WeChat group. So he didn't identify it, he raised the alarm when no one else was.
RandallBrown 7y ago
It says he saw a report that 7 people had confirmed SARS infections. He simply sent that to his friends on WeChat, who then sent it to other people on WeChat, who sent it to other people... He didn't identify it, he just told the public about it.
Jerry2 7y ago
>I don't quite understand how an opthalmologist would be equipped to identify Coronavirus. A patient could have come to him with symptoms of a conjunctivitis [1]: > As explained by Dr. Ignasi Jürgens, medical director of ICR, some reports suggest that the virus can cause conjunctivitis and be transmitted by aerosol contact with the conjunctiva. Therefore, patients who go to the ophthalmologist for conjunctivitis and have respiratory symptoms, in addition to having traveled abroad, especially to China, could be suspected of having the virus. [1] https://icrcat.com/en/coronavirus-and-conjunctivitis/ https://icrcat.com/en/coronavirus-and-conjunctivitis/

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Obviously his censorship by the Chinese government was dumb and harmful and obviously he was right about the virus. But I don't quite understand how an opthalmo

by leoh 7y ago

snapetom 7y ago
He didn't identify Coronavirus specifically. He initially called them SARS cases. The message to his colleagues was along the line of, "hey, there's something going on here. We're seeing SARS again." After that, he was called into the police department for "rumormongering."
aarongray 7y ago
I think what happened was that the initial doctors who identified the coronavirus cases were told to keep silent by the authorities and hospital. Li happened to see some of these reports and he notified other doctors in the WeChat group. So he didn't identify it, he raised the alarm when no one else was.
RandallBrown 7y ago
It says he saw a report that 7 people had confirmed SARS infections. He simply sent that to his friends on WeChat, who then sent it to other people on WeChat, who sent it to other people... He didn't identify it, he just told the public about it.
Jerry2 7y ago
>I don't quite understand how an opthalmologist would be equipped to identify Coronavirus. A patient could have come to him with symptoms of a conjunctivitis [1]: > As explained by Dr. Ignasi Jürgens, medical director of ICR, some reports suggest that the virus can cause conjunctivitis and be transmitted by aerosol contact with the conjunctiva. Therefore, patients who go to the ophthalmologist for conjunctivitis and have respiratory symptoms, in addition to having traveled abroad, especially to China, could be suspected of having the virus. [1] https://icrcat.com/en/coronavirus-and-conjunctivitis/ https://icrcat.com/en/coronavirus-and-conjunctivitis/