Liu Wen (doctor)


Liu Wen is one of the "whistleblowers" of the COVID-19 pandemic and a doctor working in the neurology department at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital.

Life

Liu studied clinical medicine in the Medical Department of Wuhan University and works in Wuhan Red Cross Hospital. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, at 19:39 pm on 30 December 2019, he posted a message in his work WeChat group "协和红会神内 ", saying "Just now a case of infectious coronavirus pneumonia was confirmed in the Houhu District of the Second Hospital. Maybe the places around Huanan will be quarantined.""SARS has been basically confirmed. Nurse sisters don't go out and about. " On 31 December, relevant departments of the hospital interviewed him, asked him for his source, and told him "don't spread fabricated rumours". Liu wrote down the incident accompanied by two police officers. In news interviews afterwards, he said that at that time he heard that it was pneumonia by coronavirus infection, and what he had impression of was only SARS and MERS, and that he reminded medical staff to pay more attention to safety as he considered that there might be person-to-person transmission.
On 7 February, Caixin visited Liu. Liu said that he was called by the police to the police station around 2 January. The police asked for the source of the news and what happened, listed written transcripts, and then asked Liu to sign and press handprints, but he received no written reprimanding like Li Wenliang did. Liu said the trip to the police station caused some pressure on him, but he did not regret it. Caixin said that "whistleblower" Liu Wen, like the other two doctors who were treated by the public security police, Li Wenliang and Xie Linka, did not know whether he was one of the eight people put on the public notice.