A Wuhan doctor who claimed she first alerted colleagues about the CCP virus outbreak in the region has reportedly disappeared, just weeks after publicly criticizing the Chinese regime for its coverup and mismanagement of what has now escalated into a global pandemic.
“She has now disappeared, her whereabouts unknown,” the flagship investigative show reported, amid fears the doctor could have been detained for speaking out.
“Seven ‘SARS-like’ cases from the Huanan seafood market have been confirmed,” Li wrote on Dec. 30, 2019, on Chinese social media app WeChat, in a chat group with hundreds of his former medical school classmates, attaching a screenshot of a diagnosis report. Li revealed the information a day before Wuhan’s health officials acknowledged that there was a mysterious viral pneumonia outbreak.
Despite Li’s reminder to not “spread it externally,” screenshots of the conversation showing his full name proliferated on the internet very quickly. On Jan. 3, police reprimanded him along with seven other medical professionals for spreading “rumors” online. The police statement said he had violated the law.
Days later, Li contracted the virus while operating on an asymptomatic patient for glaucoma, and died on Feb. 7.
Before her alleged disappearance, Ai said police didn’t go after her, but that she received an “unprecedented, very harsh admonition” from her superiors.
“Many, many times, I thought how nice it would be if we could turn back the clock,” she told Chinese magazine Portrait, adding that she regretted not telling more doctors about the danger.
“If I knew what it would be like today, no matter if I got criticized or not, I would have spread it all around,” she said. “Someone has to stand up and tell the truth. … There has to be different voices in this world, right?”
The mysterious post on Sunday appeared to show a photograph taken from Wuhan’s Jianghan Road, and a caption read: “A river. A bridge. A road. A clock chime.”
“We have got to hold China accountable and make them pay,” he said on The Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders program.