{"id":517,"date":"2020-12-06T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T12:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahgildea.com\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2020-12-06T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T12:14:45","slug":"timeline-of-the-initial-corona-virus-events-in-wuhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahgildea.com\/blog\/timeline-of-the-initial-corona-virus-events-in-wuhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline of the Initial Corona Virus Events in Wuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dr Ai Fen is the director of the emergency department of Wuhan City Central Hospital. On the afternoon of March 2nd, Ai Fen was interviewed by China\u2019s version of \u201cPeople\u201d magazine. The interview was published on the internet, then censored by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but not before several persons had a chance to copy the article.<\/p>\n
Translated from the original Chinese, I have reproduced below only a small portion of the interview, with corresponding documents (and additional information marked with []). These documents verify that 1.) the virus most likely did originate at the seafood market, and is not the product of a lab incident; Dr. Ai Fen did not \u201cdisappear\u201d as had been reported; Dr. Li Wenliang was not \u201csilenced\u201d by authorities, but died as a result of the infection.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast December 16th [2019]<\/strong>, our Nanjing Road Hospital Emergency Department received a patient. He had an inexplicably high fever, the medication was not working, body temperature does not move. On the 22nd, he was transferred to the Department of Respiratory Medicine, where they performed a fiberoptic bronchoscope to take the alveolar lavage fluid. This was sent outside for high-throughput sequencing. Later, it was reported orally as a coronavirus. At that time, the colleague in that department yelled in my ear several times: Director Ai, that person reported the coronavirus. Later we learned that the patient was working in South China Seafood.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOn December 27<\/strong>, another patient came from the Nanjing Road Campus, a nephew of a doctor in our department. He was in his 40s and had no underlying diseases. The lungs were in a mess. The blood oxygen saturation was only 90%. He has been in treatment for almost 10 days and there has been no improvement. The patient was moved to the respiratory care unit. The fiber bronchoscope was also taken and the alveolar lavage fluid was taken for testing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAt noon on December 30<\/strong>, my classmates working in the Tongji Hospital sent me a screenshot of the WeChat<\/strong> dialogue. The screenshot reads: \u201cDon\u2019t go to South China recently, there are many people with high fever \u2026\u201d. He asked me if it was true.<\/p>\n