{"id":13857,"date":"2020-02-07T06:03:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T21:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/06\/li-wenliang-coronavirus-whistleblower-doctor-profile"},"modified":"2020-02-07T06:03:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T21:03:44","slug":"the-whistleblower-doctor-who-fell-victim-to-chinas-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13857","title":{"rendered":"The whistleblower doctor who fell victim to China&#8217;s coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Li Wenliang was at the forefront of warning about the disease and treating sufferers before the virus took his life in Wuhan<\/p>\n<p>For most of his life, Li Wenliang was a successful but anonymous ophthalmologist, father and husband, based in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. But over the past two months, the 34-year-old had become a household name in China, known to hundreds of millions of people as the face and conscience of its spiralling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Late on Thursday, after state-controlled media outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/06\/whistleblower-chinese-doctor-dies-from-coronavirus\">reported that he had died<\/a> days earlier, the news was met with an extraordinary nationwide outpouring of grief and anger on social media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/06\/li-wenliang-coronavirus-whistleblower-doctor-profile\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li Wenliang was at the forefront of warning about the disease and treating sufferers before the virus took his life in WuhanFor most of his life, Li Wenliang was a successful but anonymous ophthalmologist, father and husband, based in the central Chine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13858,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions\/13858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}