As reported by CNN:
On December 30, 2019, a 34-year-old Chinese doctor working in Wuhan, Li Wenliang, told his medical school alumni friends on WeChat to warn their loved ones privately to be careful as “seven patients from a local seafood market had been diagnosed with a SARS-like illness and quarantined in his hospital”. Li explained that, according to a test he had seen, the illness was a coronavirus…”
Within hours screenshots of his messages had gone viral — without his name being blurred.
On January 3, 2020, Li was called to a local police station and reprimanded for “spreading rumors online” and “severely disrupting social order” over the message he sent in the chat group.
On January 10, 2020 after unwittingly treating a patient with the Wuhan coronavirus, Li started coughing and developed a fever the next day. He was hospitalized on January 12. In the following days, Li’s condition deteriorated so badly that he was admitted to the intensive care unit, and given oxygen support.
On February 1, he tested positive for coronavirus and on February 7, 2020 it was announced that he had died. [1, 2, 3]
Does CNN normally get exclusive information out of China?