This Chinese Doctor Who Exposed Coronavirus Spread To The World “Goes Missing”

60 Minutes Australia is reporting that Dr. Ai Fen, head of the emergency department at Wuhan Central Hospital, has disappeared.

The doctor came to public prominence two weeks ago, when she gave an interview to the Chinese publication Renwu.

In that interview she criticised the Chinese authorities, saying that in late December she had informed the authorities that something similar to Sars was spreading in Wuhan.

She said the response of the authorities was to tell her she was forbidden from discussing the situation with anyone and that the hospital had even changed the diagnostic results of a patient, a nurse, in order to cover up evidence of the virus.

After her meeting with the authorities she says she went home and told her husband he might need to raise their child on his own if anything happened to her.

Dr Ai also said “The patients who died in the emergency department were all undiagnosed and not considered confirmed cases”, and that she knew that there must be human-to-human transmission as the food market where COVID-19 is believed to have originated had been closed down but cases were still increasing.

coronavirus whistle blower Dr Ai Fen

The interview was censured nearly immediately upon publication but Chinese internet users repeatedly uploaded the interview, using emojis and deliberate misspellings to avoid tripping automatic censorship systems.

Copies of the interview translated into Elvish, Braille, Morse Code, and Klingon were also uploaded in order to avoid detection.

A third-party English translation of the interview Dr Ai gave to Renwu can be found HERE.

Dr Ai’s Weibo account appears to still be active, and shortly after the 60 Minutes Australia episode aired she posted a status which said “One river, one bridge, one road, one bell” over the below photo.

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