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https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2020/03/11/dr-ai-fen-the-wuhan-whistle/
Dr. 艾·芬 (Ai Fen) has played a key role in ringing the alarm in the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. But blog posts about Dr. Ai Fen ‘s role in the COVID-19 outbreak have been mysteriously disappearing. This post is my contribution to make sure that the Internet Never Forgets.
Dr. Ai Fen is the director of the ER of Wuhan Central Hospital, in Wuhan, China. She was the first to suspect the severity of the initial COVID-19 cases. She passed this information on to several MDs in her hospital. This information then got passed on to Dr. Li Wenliang.
Dr. Li then blew the whistle that Dr. Ai Fen provided, so to speak. But the police told Dr. Li to not cause a stir and return to work. Dr. Li unfortunately died in February 2020 of COVID-19 himself at the age of 33.
So, while Dr. Li can be regarded the original whistleblower, it is Dr. Ai Fen who provided that whistle.
According to my sources, blog posts about Dr. Ai Fen ‘s role in the COVID-19 outbreak quickly disappear after being posted on Chinese social media. Some people suspect that Chinese government’s social media tools might have been trained to detect certain sentences and then delete the posts. But people have been very creative in circumventing such tools.
According to my source, the blog post has now been re-published in English, German, Japanese, emoji, Braille, Morse, elven runes, DNA code, and what not. Update March 11: Here is a page with a some nice examples.
Here is my repost of the English translation about Dr. Ai Fen’s role in first reporting the COVID-19 case. I replaced “Affin” by “Ai Fen” and “crown pneumonia” by “corona pneumonia” shortened the introduction, removed some duplicated sentences. Update March 11: text updated with better translations provided by readers in the comments.
A text message from Ai Fen, the director of the emergency department of Wuhan Central Hospital, agreed to be interviewed at 5 am on March 1, and about half an hour later, at 5.32 am on March 1, her colleague and director of thyroid and breast surgery Jiang Xueqing was infected with New crown corona pneumonia died. Two days later, Mei Zhongming, deputy director of ophthalmology at the hospital, died. He and Li Wenliang were in the same department.
As of March 9, 2020, 4 medical staff in the Wuhan Central Hospital have died of new corona pneumonia infection. Since the outbreak, this hospital, just a few kilometers away from the South China Seafood Market, has become one of the hospitals in Wuhan with the largest number of employees that are infected.
According to media reports, more than 200 employees in the hospital were infected, including three deputy deans and multiple functional department directors. Multiple department directors are currently maintained with ECMO.
The shadow of death hangs over this Wuhan’s largest tertiary hospital. A doctor told People in the large group of hospitals that almost no one spoke, but mourned and discussed in private.
Tragedy had a chance to avoid.
On December 30, 2019, Ai Fen received a virus test report for patients with unknown pneumonia. She circled the word “SARS coronavirus” in red. When asked by a college student, she took the report and circulated it. To this fellow student who is also a doctor. That night, the report spread to doctor circles in Wuhan, and those who forwarded the report included the eight doctors who were disciplined by the police.
This caused trouble for Ai Fen. As the source of the transmission, she was interviewed by the hospital disciplinary committee and suffered “unprecedented and severe rebuke”, saying that she was making rumors as a professional.
In the afternoon of March 2nd, Ai Fen received an interview with People in the Nanjing Road District of Wuhan Central Hospital. She was sitting alone in the emergency room office. The emergency department, which had admitted more than 1,500 patients a day, had returned to quiet. There was only one tramp lying in the emergency hall.
According to some previous reports, Ai Fen was called “another female doctor who has been instructed to surface,” and some people called her a “whistleblower”. It was the “whistler”.
During the interview, Ai Fen mentioned the word “regret” several times, and she regretted that she did not continue to whistle after being interviewed. Especially for the deceased colleague, “If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t care about the pressure (from my leader), and I would [explicit] speak everywhere, all right?”
About Wuhan Central Hospital and Ai Fen what have they experienced in the past two months or so? The following is what Ai Fen told—
