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Re:China Sacrifices a Province to Save the World From Corona... by AlbertoGP on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:27AM (#22257359)
This just in: that doctor that raised the first alarm and was silenced back in December has died from it:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1178792.shtml

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1225440373880782848

Re:China Sacrifices a Province to Save the World From Corona... by c0restraint on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:49PM (#22262132)
Neither of those links are working for me right now... first one is “not found” and second one is “doesn’t exist”
Re:China Sacrifices a Province to Save the World From Corona... by AlbertoGP on Friday February 07, 2020 @11:39AM (#22267721)
Yes, both GlobalTimes and WHO just pulled those links, instead of posting a correction, after the authorities decided to plug him to an ECMO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxygen...) machine to defuse the massive uproar in China about his death, then had to declare him dead again.

Others like The Guardian updated their articles, keeping the URL, as the situation changed. After the announcement that he was being kept alive, they added a paragraph at the top of the article explaining that, and later when he was finally confirmed dead updated that note to simply say “Early reports of death of Li Wenliang were retracted, only for doctor to succumb to disease later in day”: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/whistleblower-...