He didn't want be a hero, he was just a dutiful doctor trying to get his job done. What happened to him is deeply tragical and infuriating. We need more people like him to fight the irresponsible authorities.
@@bugsygoo The problem is a lot of chinese people know this, however who have the ball to stand up?It just simply an open secret in china that authority sweep dirt under the carpet. Chinese people have suffer several time along history included the invasion of Japanese imperial. The current population in china especially middle age and higher see this problem is still bearable compare to past tragedy, speaking up just risk take back retaliation from the state.
Well he didn't do his job correctly. Spreading rumors without any evidence is reckless and irresponsible. Dr. Li should have went through the proper procedures and notified the proper authorities, it shouldn't have gone online prior to this happening. What if Wuhan's economy ground to a halt, or society panicks all because of some virus that didn't actually spread from human to human? That said, he was rightfully a national hero and is on the CCP's plaque of national heroes in the fight against covid.
My mom was in the hospital in January 2020 for almost a month. At first, I could visit with no issues. Each day that passed, more and more signs were being posted like “have you traveled in China in the past month?” And a list of symptoms “shortness of breath, fever, etc” to notify the hospital immediately if you have. My mom was released before COVID arrived in the US. The next month, my mom had COVID. And back in the hospital. It was night and day with how the hospital ran. I couldn’t visit her. I had to bag up everything she needed and call to have staff pick it up. And this was before anyone was wearing face masks. She was released 3 days later. Her Doctor told her to wait outside for me to arrive and don’t come back in unless absolutely necessary. This Doctor died of COVID a month later. He saved a lot of lives. And in return, his life was taken
You mom’s life has nothing to do with his. He died of Covid, just like many others. He lied to the world said it was Covid, he was an eye doctor, knows nothing about Covid, yet spreading rumors, saying it was SAR, it was NOT. In any other country, he would have been put into prison.
I spent the first two years of the pandemic making house calls. I had just finished seeing a patient on a cold February day when I learned about Dr. Li's death. I was gutted. I still remember that moment like it was yesterday. Dr. Li is one of the hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers whose lives were lost thanks to inept governments and hospitals that value profit over people. He is an inspiration; I only wish he didn't suffer and die on his way to becoming one.
He will always be remembered for the great work that he did. He was one of the first people that's spoke the sincere truth about the virus that threaten the whole world. Indeed he should be considered a hero
There's no big deal about him, he just reported cases of atypical pneumonia several days before other doctors. True whistleblowers are people like Snowden and Brook Jackson.
These two comments under the original comment are disparaging and misleading. This is a medical profession who spoke out about a deadly virus that a totalitarian and communist government tried to keep under raps from the intentional community. COVID continues to affect our quality of life, the economy and overall general global health even two years after it began. To undervalue the importance of Dr. Li’s discovery and reporting of COVID in the first few months is dangerous and reckless.
Visual investigation is one of the best journalism I have seen and believe me I have seen too much. Your story on Stephen Paddock and Jamal Kassoghi was so brilliant I still come back to view it.
"It's like the hospital really did not treat us as human beings." -Dr. B I'm sorry to say, but as an American healthcare worker I felt and still feel the exact same way. So sad. They called us heroes but treated us like zeroes.
As a disabled chronic pain patient in the US I can honestly say the same thing since 2016. The isolation started for me at that time. Anytime I ask for help I am told there is nothing. That isn’t true. When I would ask for help I would be threatened. Ultimately it was go home and shut up or we make you hurt more and call you mental… you probably get where this kept going. Still nothing and I am scared to ask or go to the hospital despite blacking out and extreme chest pains not even being the worse symptoms. Do no harm my A$$!
@@genericamerican7574 there aren’t enough workers to treat all of us medically in the correct way. We do not have enough people with educations to take care of the amount of people getting older and staying alive longer and we’re chronically unhealthy. There isn’t room or people to take care of everyone correctly. It’s already breaking down. There aren’t enough police, corrections officers, people working in the courts… it’s all backed up… just gonna get worse
@Ryan C, As a Canadian (who is not a healthcare worker), I am so sorry that professionals like you have been so disrespected in my country and yours. Thank you for all that you do.
You knows nothing about China and the level how Chinese people have been treated, paid, suffered and how opponent opinions in China been oppressed by comparing your situation in the US with the Chinese. Just save your first world always about me narrative for the next video. Some doctors in China are paid around $500- $800 a month with average monthly salary of doctors around $1094/m while the housing and food are not cheaper than the US. Healthcare worker can only make $800-900 in the first grade cities where the housing is as expensive as New York. The US sucks as the US being such a rich country but have the worst welfare in the developed world, however, not every topic is all about the USA.
@@zettarance4173 only after the people spoke out and only because of citizens pressuring the government to be truthful so kinda weird that you ignore the facts to what happened to him after exposing the virus
These NYT Visual Investigations is trully the evolution of investigative journalism... This is how it is supposed to be with all the technology available to journalists... Amazing work... You guys should win Nobel Prize for your work!
I cannot believe I’m seeing this now. I made a short film for a school project during HS; about him and first responders around the world. I wish more people knew about this man and what he had risked.
I remember the night when Dr Li died. People were angry and asked for free speech on social media in China. That was the only moment I heard of this appeal in China. But soon, the Chinese government gained people's support when Covid hit other countries worldwide. The more people worldwide died, the more the Chinese government felt happy. Ultimately, it made me realise that the Chinese government doesn't care about people's life. All they care about is how to maintain their rule. And make Chinese people support them. What an evil government.
If the CCP didn't care about people's lives why would they do a countrywide lockdown as you yourself said? They would have kept businesses running to line their pockets like the west. You're contradicting yourself. The CCP isn't responsible about how other countries handle the pandemic so why should they care? You proved your own comment to be factually incorrect. Did you even read what you typed before posting?
Get support from people? Because covid happens everywhere? You should know that china prrc went down at their citizens much..much more than how stalin to soviet
Well done and thanks for the reporting. In the coming years, the one thing I’m going to look forward to most is the retrospective - especially from the US, China, and New Zealand.
Great story. As this information is censored in China, it would be great to see videos like this embedded with Chinese subtitles. It might not make a difference, but there's still a chance it could reach some people and help them wake up.
This is not censored in China, China belatedly exonerated him and posthumously awarded him the May Fourth Medal. He is well known and respected in China. However, he was not a whistleblower in a traditional sense. Here's what happened. On the morning of December 30th 2019, the Wuhan CDC emailed a notice to medical workers in Wuhan warning them to watch out for a new respiratory illness, a disease we now know as COVID-19, but was at the time the nature and cause of the disease was not fully understood. There was speculation, worry, that it was SARS (a far more deadly illness, fatality rate 8%, last seen in 2004). Dr Li (an ophthalmologist working at the Central Hospital of Wuhan) saw the Wuhan CDC notice, and at around the same time he received a medical chart of a patient treated for COVID-19, that chart mistakenly diagnosed the patient as having SARS. Alarmed, Dr Li sent a message to his friends on a private WeChat group (friends he met in medical school). He incorrectly told them SARS was back, his hospital had treated 7 "SARS" patients, he also asked them to keep the information secret. He forwarded documents to the WeChat group 1. The public Wuhan CDC notice warning Drs to watch out for a new respiratory illness, 2. A photo of a patent's medical chart that misdiagnosed the patent with SARS (Dr Li circled the word "SARS" in red pen). 3. A video showing the CT scan of the patent's lungs. So he mistakenly told a few friends that SARS was back and told them to keep it a secret, nevertheless people spread his warning. His error made people pay attention to the Wuhan CDC warning, but it was more by accident rather than whistleblower revealing a secret. Also, a few hours later Dr Li corrected himself, told his friends that the patents did not have SARS, it was a different coronavirus, but it was too late, the panic had started.
help them wake up? worry about the US first, you're losing rights as we speak. First abortion who knows what's next. Fundamentalists are spreading their disease.
Who told you that it was censored? All of this is public information on the Chinese internet. He's even on the plaque of the national heroes in the fight against covid.
He saved my life with the awareness of COVID-19 that he rose... And I credit him for being the hero and making the sacrifice to spread the alarm out to the world before it was too late.. it's sad that we're still in the pandemic 3 years later.. had the police or government officials not silenced and shut the doctors up, more millions and millions of lives could have been saved
There are new strains of covid now. There is increases on my country at least and I personally know 2 people who got it. But since treatment has gotten a bit better over time and the strains haven't gotten "stronger", less people are dying, and that's why society as a whole doesn't care to even know the new strains.@@MrPaxio
I remember this story being brought up in the media over here in the US. Really sad how they didn't do nothing to save his life, condolences to the family of Mr.Li 🙏
I heard some versions of the story in his last moment at that time, but couldn’t know which I should trust. Thanks for letting us know part of the facts. Good work and touching video.
Thank you so much for this important reporting. The sharing of information, in particular that with global health implications, is imperative for the world. This is why science, must always take precedence over politics and religion. We may be from different countries, different cultures, but we are one human family. RIP Dr.Lee 💔
And yet there were so many people in the US who had the information and still didn't take it seriously. My aunt was one of those, and she died of covid.
Someday there will be some comprehensive movie series about that, as it happened to Chernobyl - hopefully at a time when official lies and propaganda will be a thing of the past…
Wait, you actually think there will be a time when officials don't lie and propaganda will cease to be employed? Good luck with that, I'm far too old and far too cynical.
Thank you for this documentary, from an old Doc in retirement. Back in late January of 2020, early leaks and the first, fragmentary reports of Dr. Li’s plight galvanized me. This was when the Trumpie “administration” was in full denial that there was any problem, at all. I began shouting online, at the top of my lungs. 1,086,675 official COVID fatalities later (four times the global mortality rate!), I haven’t really stopped shouting, since - Omicron is mutating at astonishing speed, and emerging Long-COVID data have me seriously alarmed. Like the concomitant disease of the last Great Pandemic o century ago (Encephalitis Lethargica), the individual and social costs of Long-COVID threaten to be enormous, and may burden us for the rest of this century.
6:50 It should be pointed out that the PCR test used to diagnose SARS-COV-2 did not exist before Jan 12th. After that date China started diagnosing massive numbers of hidden (mild / asymptomatic) COVID-19 infections via PCR, before Jan 12th Chinese Drs were only diagnosing severe cases,
Right so the CCP wasn't covering up the pandemic like the NYT claims. It was due to lack of information because it was a competely new virus no one has seen.
@@finnmcginn9931 PCR method testing existed since 1985. The PCR test for covid didn't exist until Jan 12th 2020 since you need to calibrate the PCR machine with covid's genome.
This man is a National Hero who was unjustified as a trouble maker of false information till later on it coast him his life and only then after dying of contracting covid - 19 his unjust country made him a National Hero. Shame on you China, Shame on you. The world or your people will never forgive you, a little too late. You could've done this man a hero so much better and at the same time improve your world relations but again you dropped the ball. Wonder why? Could've it be that you knew you knew about covid -19 and let it get out of control? Reguardless, you failed the world and you will never earn our respects for a while again. It's not your people China, it's your leaders. Stand up and do something Good people of China for the good of human kind, we beg you, take your Country back. It's only a few men, and it's billions of you.
At the beginning of the pandemic I heard political commenters in Taiwan indicate that the reason why it took so long for Chinese authorities to disclose the facts is the Chinese negligence on transparency and a deeper assumption may be the officials on a higher level wanted to take it into control themselves and brag their achievements, kind of a conflict on political interests aspect.
It's things like this that make us a species seem hopeless at times. Those with power just care about saving face, reputation, and most importantly their grip over people.. Not caring if it costs the lives of others.
great reporting team and great work, Thank you for what you did for Chinese people. The truth will be eventually known by the Chinese and the whole world.
They've already did that. Also, that would hardly constitute challenging authority. The current power base is Biden, and NYT is politically aligned with him. Thus, shouldn't you be asking them to do a visual investigation on the Biden administration's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic? Wouldn't that prove that they are free and impartial?
李医生 自你离开之后 过了一段时间我才慢慢看清楚 我们一直活在什么样的谎言和假象中 不知不觉快三年的时间 中国人的生活急转直下 但也许其实什么都没变 只是疫情时代的推动让政府的丑陋模样显露无疑罢了 现在我连回国都不敢 害怕被封城 被审查 被剥夺自由和人权 只能从国内看不到的媒体里才能了解到你死前的事实 多可悲 可我也感激你 和Dr B这样说真话的人 我想这辈子都像你们一样 再一次 RIP 李文亮医生 Dr Li Wenliang, since you left, it took me some time to see, what kind of lies and what a facade that we Chinese people were living in. The last almost 3 years, what happened to our Chinese society has been beyond any of our expectations for the worst. Maybe nothing has really changed for the government, maybe the pandemic simply revealed what our government really is to the ignorant majority of us. Now I have been abroad for the longest time in my life, I do not even dare to thinking about going back to school breaks. It's scary. The nightmares I've had, about being in forced lockdown, about doing mandatory covid tests on a daily basis, about fences and walls, about police arresting my family because I chose to speak out... How pathetic it is that I only get to see the last days of yours from a foreign media that Chinese people could not access to. But at the same time, I thank you people like you and Dr B. I want to live like you and speak about truths until the day I die. RIP Dr Li Wen Liang🕯
I got the vaccine and 2 booster shots and still got Covid 3 times, maybe my symptoms weren’t as bad as they could have been if I hadn’t gotten the vaccine. What’s interesting is each time I got Covid the symptoms grew less and less each time. By the 3rd time I had Covid I barely had any symptoms was comparable to a mild cold.
I remember watching this happen slowly over the news that I was watching over before coming to Korea in 2020, worrying and trying to take care of the people traveling with me and not knowing if it was going to blow up or not. Then we got to Korea and all that China hate in the U.S. happened and family members had no idea that this had happened in China just a few months ago. No one knew, because no one cared to look if it wasn't happening in the U.S.. It was so.....heartbreaking and it ruined how I saw every person in my life. Apparently, I'm the only one in my family who cares about what is actually going on in a crisis. Can't trust anyone else to care enough to look and see. Can't trust people to even care what is true and what is not, let alone to tell the difference between the two. Scary, that they don't care if it is a lie, that people died just to get that information out there.
While his death is tragic according to Wikipedia he only told a small group of people in a private chat group about it and then actually told them NOT to tell anyone else.
@@sadikadhaan4595 This is what Wikipedia says: *Li asked the WeChat group members to inform their families and friends to take protective measures whilst requesting discretion from those he shared the information with; he was upset when the discussion gained a wider audience than he had hoped.* So it seems he did NOT tell it publicly but my initial post was also slightly inaccurate. Not saying that everything on Wikipedia is 100% factually correct though. May he rest in peace.
He didn't want be a hero, he was just a dutiful doctor trying to get his job done. What happened to him is deeply tragical and infuriating. We need more people like him to fight the irresponsible authorities.
Well, if you are in China, then China needs more people like you who can see through the BS. Well done!
interesting, "We need more people like him...." means you want someone give up their life to full fill your interests?
@@bugsygoo The problem is a lot of chinese people know this, however who have the ball to stand up?It just simply an open secret in china that authority sweep dirt under the carpet. Chinese people have suffer several time along history included the invasion of Japanese imperial. The current population in china especially middle age and higher see this problem is still bearable compare to past tragedy, speaking up just risk take back retaliation from the state.
Well he didn't do his job correctly. Spreading rumors without any evidence is reckless and irresponsible. Dr. Li should have went through the proper procedures and notified the proper authorities, it shouldn't have gone online prior to this happening. What if Wuhan's economy ground to a halt, or society panicks all because of some virus that didn't actually spread from human to human? That said, he was rightfully a national hero and is on the CCP's plaque of national heroes in the fight against covid.
Yeah that's a good way of getting whisked away from your bed in China.
My mom was in the hospital in January 2020 for almost a month. At first, I could visit with no issues. Each day that passed, more and more signs were being posted like “have you traveled in China in the past month?” And a list of symptoms “shortness of breath, fever, etc” to notify the hospital immediately if you have. My mom was released before COVID arrived in the US. The next month, my mom had COVID. And back in the hospital. It was night and day with how the hospital ran. I couldn’t visit her. I had to bag up everything she needed and call to have staff pick it up. And this was before anyone was wearing face masks. She was released 3 days later. Her Doctor told her to wait outside for me to arrive and don’t come back in unless absolutely necessary. This Doctor died of COVID a month later. He saved a lot of lives. And in return, his life was taken
Not every hero wears cape. They are truly heros in the pandemic period. Hopefully, they are living peacefully on heaven.❤
You mom’s life has nothing to do with his. He died of Covid, just like many others. He lied to the world said it was Covid, he was an eye doctor, knows nothing about Covid, yet spreading rumors, saying it was SAR, it was NOT. In any other country, he would have been put into prison.
Sad to hear that. RIP doctor.
Wow. God bless that doctor. 🕊🕊🙏🏽
@@Decgyrrl The doctor lied to the public.
I spent the first two years of the pandemic making house calls. I had just finished seeing a patient on a cold February day when I learned about Dr. Li's death. I was gutted. I still remember that moment like it was yesterday.
Dr. Li is one of the hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers whose lives were lost thanks to inept governments and hospitals that value profit over people.
He is an inspiration; I only wish he didn't suffer and die on his way to becoming one.
Thanks for your dedication to your profession.
"let me open this by making it about me." - this guy
Thank you doctor. RIP
nope, doesnt make sense. china economy is still being effected by the virus laws. usa opened back up like it never existed
He will always be remembered for the great work that he did. He was one of the first people that's spoke the sincere truth about the virus that threaten the whole world.
Indeed he should be considered a hero
@@peacelover373 here comes a chinese troll. Congrats, u won son.
Now ask ur daddy winnie the pooh for some milk.
There's no big deal about him, he just reported cases of atypical pneumonia several days before other doctors. True whistleblowers are people like Snowden and Brook Jackson.
These two comments under the original comment are disparaging and misleading. This is a medical profession who spoke out about a deadly virus that a totalitarian and communist government tried to keep under raps from the intentional community. COVID continues to affect our quality of life, the economy and overall general global health even two years after it began. To undervalue the importance of Dr. Li’s discovery and reporting of COVID in the first few months is dangerous and reckless.
@crabvoice are you working in CCP's prison? 5cents for each comment?
@@peacelover373 Covid-19 is SARS-cov-2?
Visual investigation is one of the best journalism I have seen and believe me I have seen too much. Your story on Stephen Paddock and Jamal Kassoghi was so brilliant I still come back to view it.
He is a hero. I remember his videos. I took action in my life immediately. Listen to the ones who put themselves at risk to say something. Always.
"It's like the hospital really did not treat us as human beings." -Dr. B
I'm sorry to say, but as an American healthcare worker I felt and still feel the exact same way. So sad.
They called us heroes but treated us like zeroes.
As a disabled chronic pain patient in the US I can honestly say the same thing since 2016. The isolation started for me at that time. Anytime I ask for help I am told there is nothing. That isn’t true. When I would ask for help I would be threatened. Ultimately it was go home and shut up or we make you hurt more and call you mental… you probably get where this kept going. Still nothing and I am scared to ask or go to the hospital despite blacking out and extreme chest pains not even being the worse symptoms.
Do no harm my A$$!
They don’t care about us. You are still “ us” every dr is still an “us” unless he’s part of them.
@@genericamerican7574 there aren’t enough workers to treat all of us medically in the correct way. We do not have enough people with educations to take care of the amount of people getting older and staying alive longer and we’re chronically unhealthy. There isn’t room or people to take care of everyone correctly. It’s already breaking down. There aren’t enough police, corrections officers, people working in the courts… it’s all backed up… just gonna get worse
@Ryan C, As a Canadian (who is not a healthcare worker), I am so sorry that professionals like you have been so disrespected in my country and yours. Thank you for all that you do.
You knows nothing about China and the level how Chinese people have been treated, paid, suffered and how opponent opinions in China been oppressed by comparing your situation in the US with the Chinese. Just save your first world always about me narrative for the next video. Some doctors in China are paid around $500- $800 a month with average monthly salary of doctors around $1094/m while the housing and food are not cheaper than the US. Healthcare worker can only make $800-900 in the first grade cities where the housing is as expensive as New York. The US sucks as the US being such a rich country but have the worst welfare in the developed world, however, not every topic is all about the USA.
He was so brave and should be considered a hero for exposing the truth of how serious covid is.
He is considered a hero. He's #42 on the CCP's national heroes in the fight against covid plaque.
我们的媒体央视新闻CCYV早把他宣传为英雄了
@@zettarance4173 only after the people spoke out and only because of citizens pressuring the government to be truthful so kinda weird that you ignore the facts to what happened to him after exposing the virus
34 is much too young. So sad. Thank you for being a good physician and doing the right thing placing humanity before nationality.
"A healthy society should not have just one voice" Very well said.
NYT visual investigations have got to be the greatest things on the planet. Super clear facts, great narrators just awesome
NYT Visual Investigations is always next-level journalism
😂 😂 😂 😂 Yeah like they did with the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq... Next level journalism for idiotic minds... 😂 😂 😂
Yes, great propaganda skills
就係要講出來俾全世界知！Great job NYT, absolutely great job!
These NYT Visual Investigations is trully the evolution of investigative journalism... This is how it is supposed to be with all the technology available to journalists... Amazing work... You guys should win Nobel Prize for your work!
"But I'll always believe, even if others forget, I should leave the world with something" -Dr. B; this is so powerful
This man deserves eternal paradise, and to never be forgotten. Long live the whistleblowers!
I cannot believe I’m seeing this now. I made a short film for a school project during HS; about him and first responders around the world. I wish more people knew about this man and what he had risked.
There needs to be a movie about this doctor.
I remember the night when Dr Li died. People were angry and asked for free speech on social media in China. That was the only moment I heard of this appeal in China. But soon, the Chinese government gained people's support when Covid hit other countries worldwide. The more people worldwide died, the more the Chinese government felt happy. Ultimately, it made me realise that the Chinese government doesn't care about people's life. All they care about is how to maintain their rule. And make Chinese people support them. What an evil government.
这是很恶毒的指控，中国政府只对中国人民负责，你们有自己的政府
So you're gonna blame the death of millions of Americans under Trump admin on Chinese ? Lol what a way divert blame for your pathetic response.
If the CCP didn't care about people's lives why would they do a countrywide lockdown as you yourself said? They would have kept businesses running to line their pockets like the west. You're contradicting yourself. The CCP isn't responsible about how other countries handle the pandemic so why should they care? You proved your own comment to be factually incorrect. Did you even read what you typed before posting?
Get support from people? Because covid happens everywhere? You should know that china prrc went down at their citizens much..much more than how stalin to soviet
It took you that long to come to that realization?
He's a martyr for truth. May he rest in peace.
If only our leaders had the integrity of this doctor, how different our lives would have been.
Gratitude for the investigation report 🙏
Well done and thanks for the reporting. In the coming years, the one thing I’m going to look forward to most is the retrospective - especially from the US, China, and New Zealand.
Great story. As this information is censored in China, it would be great to see videos like this embedded with Chinese subtitles. It might not make a difference, but there's still a chance it could reach some people and help them wake up.
You underestimate the art of doublespeak and doublethink.
This is not censored in China, China belatedly exonerated him and posthumously awarded him the May Fourth Medal. He is well known and respected in China.
However, he was not a whistleblower in a traditional sense.
Here's what happened. On the morning of December 30th 2019, the Wuhan CDC emailed a notice to medical workers in Wuhan warning them to watch out for a new respiratory illness, a disease we now know as COVID-19, but was at the time the nature and cause of the disease was not fully understood. There was speculation, worry, that it was SARS (a far more deadly illness, fatality rate 8%, last seen in 2004).
Dr Li (an ophthalmologist working at the Central Hospital of Wuhan) saw the Wuhan CDC notice, and at around the same time he received a medical chart of a patient treated for COVID-19, that chart mistakenly diagnosed the patient as having SARS.
Alarmed, Dr Li sent a message to his friends on a private WeChat group (friends he met in medical school). He incorrectly told them SARS was back, his hospital had treated 7 "SARS" patients, he also asked them to keep the information secret. He forwarded documents to the WeChat group 1. The public Wuhan CDC notice warning Drs to watch out for a new respiratory illness, 2. A photo of a patent's medical chart that misdiagnosed the patent with SARS (Dr Li circled the word "SARS" in red pen). 3. A video showing the CT scan of the patent's lungs.
So he mistakenly told a few friends that SARS was back and told them to keep it a secret, nevertheless people spread his warning. His error made people pay attention to the Wuhan CDC warning, but it was more by accident rather than whistleblower revealing a secret. Also, a few hours later Dr Li corrected himself, told his friends that the patents did not have SARS, it was a different coronavirus, but it was too late, the panic had started.
help them wake up? worry about the US first, you're losing rights as we speak. First abortion who knows what's next. Fundamentalists are spreading their disease.
Who told you that it was censored? All of this is public information on the Chinese internet. He's even on the plaque of the national heroes in the fight against covid.
@@orbitalpotato9940Hah.... Only after WeChat and Weibo outrage...
The internet doesn't forget :)
He saved my life with the awareness of COVID-19 that he rose... And I credit him for being the hero and making the sacrifice to spread the alarm out to the world before it was too late.. it's sad that we're still in the pandemic 3 years later.. had the police or government officials not silenced and shut the doctors up, more millions and millions of lives could have been saved
were still in pandemic? i thought it ended when everyone stopped caring like a year+ ago 🤔
There are new strains of covid now. There is increases on my country at least and I personally know 2 people who got it. But since treatment has gotten a bit better over time and the strains haven't gotten "stronger", less people are dying, and that's why society as a whole doesn't care to even know the new strains.@@MrPaxio
Although I agree the WHO doesn't consider it a pandemic anymore.@@MrPaxio
I remember this story being brought up in the media over here in the US. Really sad how they didn't do nothing to save his life, condolences to the family of Mr.Li 🙏
Thank you for your work 🙏
Thank you Muyi Xiao, and your team, for your hard work and dedication to the truth.
RIP Dr Li
Truly one of the greats
I heard some versions of the story in his last moment at that time, but couldn’t know which I should trust. Thanks for letting us know part of the facts. Good work and touching video.
IMO investigative journalism as mind-peeling as blockbuster documentaries and memoir-derived films. Well done and keep it up 👍
Thank you so much for this important reporting. The sharing of information, in particular that with global health implications, is imperative for the world. This is why science, must always take precedence over politics and religion. We may be from different countries, different cultures, but we are one human family. RIP Dr.Lee 💔
*Li
NYT visual investigations always on another level of journalism ❤
Worth to get viral
悲哀😢 希望大家记住他 He will be remembered
And yet there were so many people in the US who had the information and still didn't take it seriously. My aunt was one of those, and she died of covid.
My great grandma, my best friend died in a nursing home from Covid and I couldn't even visit her.
china wouldn't let people from Wuhan go to other parts of china, but let them travel abroad before other countries knew about this
Li Wenliang was a hero. He represents the best of China. He saved lives and stood for the truth.
Thank you for this documentary and the information with it.
真的很气愤，三年了，依旧无科学搞抗疫，压抑的无所适从！一个健康的社会不应该只有一种声音！
You have the fake vaccines.
三十年河东 三十年河西
A legacy of heroism!!! Gone too soon but never forgotten.
Someday there will be some comprehensive movie series about that, as it happened to Chernobyl - hopefully at a time when official lies and propaganda will be a thing of the past…
Wait, you actually think there will be a time when officials don't lie and propaganda will cease to be employed? Good luck with that, I'm far too old and far too cynical.
@@finnmcginn9931 There’ll always be different versions, but time normally dusts-off a lot of stupidity…
Thank you for this documentary, from an old Doc in retirement. Back in late January of 2020, early leaks and the first, fragmentary reports of Dr. Li’s plight galvanized me. This was when the Trumpie “administration” was in full denial that there was any problem, at all. I began shouting online, at the top of my lungs. 1,086,675 official COVID fatalities later (four times the global mortality rate!), I haven’t really stopped shouting, since - Omicron is mutating at astonishing speed, and emerging Long-COVID data have me seriously alarmed.
Like the concomitant disease of the last Great Pandemic o century ago (Encephalitis Lethargica), the individual and social costs of Long-COVID threaten to be enormous, and may burden us for the rest of this century.
一路走好，感谢还记得他的人
6:50 It should be pointed out that the PCR test used to diagnose SARS-COV-2 did not exist before Jan 12th. After that date China started diagnosing massive numbers of hidden (mild / asymptomatic) COVID-19 infections via PCR, before Jan 12th Chinese Drs were only diagnosing severe cases,
Right so the CCP wasn't covering up the pandemic like the NYT claims. It was due to lack of information because it was a competely new virus no one has seen.
Thr PCR test was invented in 1985. Anything else you'd like me to fact check for you
@@finnmcginn9931 PCR method testing existed since 1985. The PCR test for covid didn't exist until Jan 12th 2020 since you need to calibrate the PCR machine with covid's genome.
Thanks Ms. Xiao to reveal the last days of Dr. LI Wenliang. Both of you are heroes to help to destroy such an evil party eventually.
we should always remember dr.li who speak the truth, and i cry for him.
an amazing piece of video-based journalism
he is a hero and will always be
I stand with Dr. Li. 🇺🇸
Never give up VI. Thanks for the revelation on the good doctor.
Thx Dr. B for ur story.
Thank you.
Incredible brilliant brave work here outstanding thank you so much for sharing and for making this video
Thanks for making this fact-checking but still touching video! Salute to Dr. B and other brave healthcare people in China!
This is very well done. It's enraging that the CCP silenced his warnings. We should never forget that.
He died twice for his country. So sad.
He become so brave and have to be taken into consideration a hero for exposing the truth of the way severe covid is.
wonder what his reaction would be 2 years later seeing the destruction the virus caused
thank you
excellent video and research
A bit reckless and insensitive of nyt to not obscure his voice at all? Like it's so easy to identify him if one of his colleagues watch this video.
Who is the narrator for this video? They did a great job.
RIP HERO !
The graphics and editing are top notch!
The narrator, however, needs a pay cut XD
This man is a National Hero who was unjustified as a trouble maker of false information till later on it coast him his life and only then after dying of contracting covid - 19 his unjust country made him a National Hero. Shame on you China, Shame on you. The world or your people will never forgive you, a little too late. You could've done this man a hero so much better and at the same time improve your world relations but again you dropped the ball. Wonder why? Could've it be that you knew you knew about covid -19 and let it get out of control? Reguardless, you failed the world and you will never earn our respects for a while again. It's not your people China, it's your leaders. Stand up and do something Good people of China for the good of human kind, we beg you, take your Country back. It's only a few men, and it's billions of you.
Dr Li. A true hero. A HEALTHY SOCIETY HAS MORE THEN ONE VOICE.
Yes indeed.
so sad - RIP Li Wenliang. My god the AIR quality. We are doomed
its fine karen, the average global temp used to be higher before, all without human intervention. its called we were in an ice age
RIP Dr. Li 🕊🕊
Watching here
Watching
At the beginning of the pandemic I heard political commenters in Taiwan indicate that the reason why it took so long for Chinese authorities to disclose the facts is the Chinese negligence on transparency and a deeper assumption may be the officials on a higher level wanted to take it into control themselves and brag their achievements, kind of a conflict on political interests aspect.
A hero that gives his life for truth.
Rest in peace to Dr. Li. You are a hero to many.
thedailynews.tech/adani-group-shares-market-turmoil-due-to-fall-in-lic/ watch it
Great job.
I report before during amd after all events
It's things like this that make us a species seem hopeless at times. Those with power just care about saving face, reputation, and most importantly their grip over people.. Not caring if it costs the lives of others.
The background music is very annoying.
Come on, for a better future!
RIP
beautiful video dear very nice beautiful Hospital
It's so weird that UA-cam doesn't auto complete Dr. Li's name on the search.
Coming from a medical family makes me so angry and sad to see the collateral damage from politics
great reporting team and great work, Thank you for what you did for Chinese people. The truth will be eventually known by the Chinese and the whole world.
China's silence of two people, young men, a long time, plus... two years ago
He's a real hero.
Haunting
An honorable humanitarian who cared for people more than his career.
Being a hero in one regard wouldn’t necessarily make him a “humanitarian”.
rip a legend
Sadly, most chinese have forgotten how CCP silenced Dr. Li Wenliang.
Thank you for this video.
WeChat monitor users’ voice for ID, is it not dangerous to Doc B by disclosing his voice in video?
I was thinking the same thing. He also revealed identifying information.
the voice had been modified
Great, now do one about Trump and how his mishandling led to millions dying. Show people that there's really freedom of the press in America.
They've already did that. Also, that would hardly constitute challenging authority. The current power base is Biden, and NYT is politically aligned with him. Thus, shouldn't you be asking them to do a visual investigation on the Biden administration's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic? Wouldn't that prove that they are free and impartial?
American press has bashed him multip times already, unlike Chinese media that pretend that nothing is wrong with their glorious country
i dont think only trump could save the millions by predicting this virus s outcome .. you may go search fauci s dirty dozen..
李医生 自你离开之后 过了一段时间我才慢慢看清楚 我们一直活在什么样的谎言和假象中 不知不觉快三年的时间 中国人的生活急转直下 但也许其实什么都没变 只是疫情时代的推动让政府的丑陋模样显露无疑罢了 现在我连回国都不敢 害怕被封城 被审查 被剥夺自由和人权 只能从国内看不到的媒体里才能了解到你死前的事实 多可悲 可我也感激你 和Dr B这样说真话的人 我想这辈子都像你们一样 再一次 RIP 李文亮医生
Dr Li Wenliang, since you left, it took me some time to see, what kind of lies and what a facade that we Chinese people were living in. The last almost 3 years, what happened to our Chinese society has been beyond any of our expectations for the worst. Maybe nothing has really changed for the government, maybe the pandemic simply revealed what our government really is to the ignorant majority of us. Now I have been abroad for the longest time in my life, I do not even dare to thinking about going back to school breaks. It's scary. The nightmares I've had, about being in forced lockdown, about doing mandatory covid tests on a daily basis, about fences and walls, about police arresting my family because I chose to speak out... How pathetic it is that I only get to see the last days of yours from a foreign media that Chinese people could not access to. But at the same time, I thank you people like you and Dr B. I want to live like you and speak about truths until the day I die.
RIP Dr Li Wen Liang🕯
用汗流浃背的眼睛微笑
I got the vaccine and 2 booster shots and still got Covid 3 times, maybe my symptoms weren’t as bad as they could have been if I hadn’t gotten the vaccine. What’s interesting is each time I got Covid the symptoms grew less and less each time. By the 3rd time I had Covid I barely had any symptoms was comparable to a mild cold.
永远不忘
I hope one day the world will find out the truth, who is accountable for the death of the millions.
I remember watching this happen slowly over the news that I was watching over before coming to Korea in 2020, worrying and trying to take care of the people traveling with me and not knowing if it was going to blow up or not. Then we got to Korea and all that China hate in the U.S. happened and family members had no idea that this had happened in China just a few months ago. No one knew, because no one cared to look if it wasn't happening in the U.S.. It was so.....heartbreaking and it ruined how I saw every person in my life. Apparently, I'm the only one in my family who cares about what is actually going on in a crisis. Can't trust anyone else to care enough to look and see. Can't trust people to even care what is true and what is not, let alone to tell the difference between the two. Scary, that they don't care if it is a lie, that people died just to get that information out there.
Somebody definitely needs to go to jail behind all this!!!!
While his death is tragic according to Wikipedia he only told a small group of people in a private chat group about it and then actually told them NOT to tell anyone else.
False. He told it publicly.
@@sadikadhaan4595 This is what Wikipedia says:
*Li asked the WeChat group members to inform their families and friends to take protective measures whilst requesting discretion from those he shared the information with; he was upset when the discussion gained a wider audience than he had hoped.*
So it seems he did NOT tell it publicly but my initial post was also slightly inaccurate.
Not saying that everything on Wikipedia is 100% factually correct though.
May he rest in peace.
@@aperson2730 anyone can edit information on wikipedia
@@yl6743 Except this is confirmed through multiple sources. It wasn't Dr li who shared the post and he did tell the group not to share this info.
That's why narrator said he never intended to be hero. He just wanted to tell his friends and family. That's it. I don't blame him. It's human nature.