What Really Happened In Wuhan: A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths

Pdf Book Name: What Really Happened In Wuhan: A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths
Author: Markson, Sharri
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN-10, 13: 1460761081,9781460761083
Year: 2021
Pages: 420 Pages
Language: English
File size: 12 MB
File format: PDF,EPUB

What Really Happened In Wuhan: A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths Pdf Book Description:

Dr Wang Lei can pinpoint the precise moment the Wuhan medical system collapsed. It was the moment when the denial of human-to-human transmission truly became a farce. When dead bodies were piling up, left to decay for days in hospital corridors and on trucks, because Chinese health authorities refused to officially record any deaths. The bodies were for them nothing more than a logistical problem. Hospitals were at capacity and sick families were left to fend for themselves. At the same time Dimon and Bob were first hearing about this mysterious new virus in November, Dr Wang Lei was at the chaotic epicentre of the unfolding health crisis enveloping his city. The middle-aged community doctor was on the front line of the battle against Covid-19. He and his medical colleagues would realize very quickly that they were dealing with a new coronavirus but they were forbidden from breathing word about the official diagnosis. Even when they each started to fall ill from the new coronavirus, they were forced to turn up for work – with health directors refusing to acknowledge there was a problem.

It all began in early November 2019, when Dr Wang and his colleagues started seeing more and more patients walk in with fevers and respiratory problems. It would fast become an influx. “I was treating at least double the usual number of patients with fevers,” Wang says. “I have one shift starting in the morning, six or seven hours, from 8am to 3pm. I would typically see 30 patients; usually you have maybe five or six people with fevers. The others are old people, people with diabetes or hypertension or other issues. But in November, I’d easily see at least a dozen people every shift with fevers, sometimes more. They all had fevers and a cough.” Dr Wang – whose name and age I’ve changed to protect his life – works in a medical clinic close to the center of Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, where he practices both traditional and Chinese medicine. As November progressed, the virus escalated. The authorities clearly knew they had a problem on their hands this month because, Dr Wang says, a flu alert was sent out to doctors, warning them of some sort of severe influenza. But he thought something was suspicious because high school classes started shutting down in November, wherever there had been infected students. It was around the time of the mid-term exams, which went from October 29 to November 11, 2019. This made him wonder if it was something other than just the regular flu. “At that time, some students stopped going to school, it’s not the school closed down but some classes [were] postponed.” It’s extraordinary that classes were cancelled as early as November because of a flu-like illness..