All because of the corona virus

 THE FIRST DOCTOR WHO DIED OF THE CORONA VIRUS

   Li Wenliang was born on October 12, 1986 in the Manchu Family in Beizhen, Liaoning. He attended Beizhen High School and graduated with excellent academic achievement. In 2004, he won 609 in the National College Entrance Examination (gaokao), and was accepted to the Wuhan University School of Medicine as a clinical medical student in a joint seven-year undergraduate and master's program. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in the joint year. His tutor said that he was a diligent and honest student. His college friends say he is a basketball fan.

   

  After graduating in 2011, Li worked at Xiamen University's Xiamen Eye Center for three years. A former apprentice worker in Xiamen said that Li was so patient with his patients that he never showed dissatisfaction with them even when they failed to hear or understand what he was saying. His colleagues described him as an ordinary person, who had been scolded by his director, who would feel pressured when sorting out piles of medical records, and who had been cheated when buying Apple products.

  

   On December 30, 2019, Li saw patient reports that showed positive results with a high level of confidence for the SARS coronavirus test. At 5:43 p.m., he wrote in the private WeChat group of his medical school friends: "7 SARS cases were reported [to the hospital] from the Huanan Seafood Market." He also posted a patient examination report and CT scan images. At 18:42, he added "the latest news is, it has been confirmed that they are coronavirus infections, but the right type of virus is being subtype". Li asked members of the WeChat group to tell their family and friends to take protective measures. He was upset when the discussion got a wider audience than he had hoped.

  

   After the warning, Mr. Li returned to work in the hospital and contracted the virus on January 8. On January 31, he published his experience at the police station with a warning letter on social media. The post became viral and users questioned why the doctor who gave the previous warning was silenced by the authorities.

  

   On January 7, Li contracted the corona virus when he saw an infected patient in his hospital. [18] The patient has acute angle closure glaucoma and has a fever the next day. Li then began to suspect that the patient might have a coronavirus infection. Ms. Li developed a fever and cough on January 10, which soon became worse. Doctor Yu Chengbo, a Zhejiang medical expert sent to Wuhan, told the media that although most young patients were not prone to severe conditions, the glaucoma patient Li saw on January 8 was a shopkeeper at the Huanan Seafood Market with a high viral load. burden, which can worsen Li's infection.

  

  On January 12, Li was admitted to an intensive hospital in the Houhu Hospital District, Wuhan Central Hospital, where he was quarantined, treated, and tested for the virus several times until he tested positive for infection on January 30. He was diagnosed with a viral infection on February 1. When hospitalized, Li posted an online message vowing to return to the front line after his recovery.

  

  According to a colleague, Mr. Li's condition became critical on February 5. On February 6, when Li talked on the phone with a friend, he told the friend that he had difficulty breathing and his oxygen saturation dropped to 85%. At around 7:00 pm, he was sent to the emergency room. According to China Newsweek, his heartbeat stopped at 9:30 p.m. In a social media post, Chinese state media reported that Li had died, but the post was immediately deleted. Later, the Wuhan Central Hospital issued a statement that contradicted his death report: "In the process of fighting the corona virus, the ophthalmologist from our hospital Li Wenliang was unfortunately infected. He is now in critical condition and we are doing our best to save him." Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ( ECMO) is reportedly used to keep him alive. However, the effort was unsuccessful, and the hospital announced that Li died at 2:58 on February 7, 2020. b. During the confusion, more than 17 million people watched the live broadcast for him. status update.

  

  When Li began showing symptoms of coronavirus, he booked a hotel room to avoid the possibility of infecting his family, before being admitted to the hospital on January 12. Despite these precautions, his parents were infected with SARS-CoV-2, but later recovered. Mr. Li has a wife and one child. His wife was pregnant with their second child at the time of his death.