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a cover story tonight is about a doctor
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in Wuhan you’ve probably not heard of
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her because her story has been hidden by
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the mighty dragon hidden until it got
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out we are talking about dr. i fen she’s
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the director of the emergency department
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at the Wuhan central hospital she’s also
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the reason why the world found out about
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China’s cover-up she was perhaps the
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first doctor to order tests on the early
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coronavirus patients and now she has
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gone missing the latest reports claim
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that her whereabouts are unknown now why
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is this doctor so important why must her
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story be told because doctor I fen has
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ruffled the feathers of the Communist
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Party of China not only did she find the
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virus she even spoke about it in China
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last month she gave an interview to a
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Chinese magazine the government did not
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like it the interview created fresh
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trouble for Beijing it also became proof
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of China’s cover-up because dr. I fen
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had revealed at all she told the world
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how China knew about the coronavirus way
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back in December and how China did
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nothing to stop it dr. i fen said all of
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this in her interview she said that she
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was not the whistleblower she was the
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one who gave the whistle
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tonight on gravitas we have for you the
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offend revelations we’ve been
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investigating her claims
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we’ve also reported on some of her
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assessments in the past and now we have
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access to copy of dr. offends interview
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this was removed from the internet by
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the Chinese censors the interview is the
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smoking gun the proof of China’s
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cover-up this is what it says doctor I
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fen was in her hospital when the
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patient’s walked in it was a disease
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that no other doctor had seen before the
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patients were showing flu-like symptoms
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but usual treatment methods were not
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working on them so doctor I fen she was
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treating some of the patients herself
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and she decided to carry out some tests
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the result she said was shocking the
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report called it a SARS coronavirus now
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the interview says that after I fen read
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the report several times to confirm it
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her conclusion did not change she said
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that she broke out in a cold sweat
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new an unprecedented challenge was
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staring at her doctor - circled the
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diagnosis she took a photograph of the
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report and she shared it with a friend
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soon the report was circulated across Wu
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Hans medical circles other doctors began
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talking about this new virus this
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mysterious disease one of them was
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doctor Lee when Lee Jung the man on your
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screen he - received this report and
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he’s now known as the first
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whistleblower doctor i fen gave him the
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whistle as she puts it he shared her
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report further soon it emerged on the
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radar of the Chinese censors they found
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out what was being circulated and this
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is where the cover-up begins dr. Lee was
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pulled up by Chinese officials for
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sharing the report he was accused of
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spreading rumors and then the Chinese
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police tracked down dr. I fen as the
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source they told her to stay quiet
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first she received a warning her
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Hospital told her to not spread this
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information two days later she was
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called before her hospital’s
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disciplinary inspection committee she
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was accused of spreading rumors she was
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reprimanded disciplinary action for
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raising concerns doctor - tried to warn
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her senior she tried to raise an alarm
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about the Wuhan virus but her voice was
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muzzled the interview says that she knew
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about human to human transmission but no
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one listened to her instead of acting on
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a report the Wuhan Central Hospital
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joined the government’s cover-up the
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staff was forbidden from passing
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messages or images about this virus a
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few months later doctor - got a chance
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to speak again her interview was
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published in a Chinese magazine called
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people and this time she did not hold
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anything back she told everything that
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she knew and now nobody knows where she
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is gone missing for reporting on the
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Wuhan virus
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