In my mind's eye: a selfie from early February of a 34-year-old ophthalmologist, Dr Li Wenliang, lying in a Wuhan hospital bed, a sheen of sweat on his forehead, a positive-pressure oxygen mask over his face assisting his Covid-rav- aged lungs to breathe. Dr Wenliang was already being mythologised as a whistle - blower: I read that he had attempted to "tell the world" about Covid-19. It was little more than a week after that whole team meeting and we were now dealing with as many patients by phone as possible-minimising the chance of corona- virus getting into the building and spreading to staff or other patients. Cathy Gardner, the retired virologist whose father died after a Covid-positive patient was discharged from hospital to his care home, has recently been granted a judicial review of the government's decision- making. [Extracted from the article]
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