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Dr. Li-Meng received her [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] from Xiangya Medical College of [[Central South University]]. Dr. Li-Meng went on to earn her PhD from [[Southern Medical University]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=CNN Indonesia|first=|date=4 August 2020|title=Li-Meng Yan, Pakar Virologi Pengungkap Sumber Corona di China|url=https://www.cnnindonesia.com/internasional/20200804191248-113-532177/li-meng-yan-pakar-virologi-pengungkap-sumber-corona-di-china|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-16|website=CNN Indonesia|language=id-ID}}</ref> Her research includes the study of ''The inhibition effect of propranolol on the corneal neovascularization in an alkali-induced injury mouse model''<ref>{{Cite web|title=普萘洛尔对小鼠角膜碱烧伤模型中新生血管抑制作用的实验研究|url=https://kns.cnki.net/KCMS/detail/detail.aspx?dbcode=CDFD&dbname=CDFDLAST2015&filename=1015569677.nh&v=MDI1MTlBVkYyNkc3YStGOWZMcUpFYlBJUjhlWDFMdXhZUzdEaDFUM3FUcldNMUZyQ1VSN3FmWU9kckZDdmhXcno=}}</ref> and the challenges in developing a universal influenza vaccine.<ref name="pmid30013557">{{cite journal| author=Valkenburg SA, Leung NHL, Bull MB, Yan LM, Li APY, Poon LLM | display-authors=etal| title=The Hurdles From Bench to Bedside in the Realization and Implementation of a Universal Influenza Vaccine. | journal=Front Immunol | year= 2018 | volume= 9 | issue= | pages= 1479 | pmid=30013557 | doi=10.3389/fimmu.2018.01479 | pmc=6036122 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=30013557 }} </ref> At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic she was employed at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, [[University of Hong Kong]] (HKU), conducting research specialised in virology and immunology.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://virtual.keystonesymposia.org/ks/speakers/view/1097 |website=Keystone Symposia |title=Li-Meng Yan MD, PhD, University of Hong Kong |accessdate=July 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711055340/https://virtual.keystonesymposia.org/ks/speakers/view/1097 |archive-date=July 11, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Dr. Li-Meng received her [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] from Xiangya Medical College of [[Central South University]]. Dr. Li-Meng went on to earn her PhD from [[Southern Medical University]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=CNN Indonesia|first=|date=4 August 2020|title=Li-Meng Yan, Pakar Virologi Pengungkap Sumber Corona di China|url=https://www.cnnindonesia.com/internasional/20200804191248-113-532177/li-meng-yan-pakar-virologi-pengungkap-sumber-corona-di-china|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-16|website=CNN Indonesia|language=id-ID}}</ref> Her research includes the study of ''The inhibition effect of propranolol on the corneal neovascularization in an alkali-induced injury mouse model''<ref>{{Cite web|title=普萘洛尔对小鼠角膜碱烧伤模型中新生血管抑制作用的实验研究|url=https://kns.cnki.net/KCMS/detail/detail.aspx?dbcode=CDFD&dbname=CDFDLAST2015&filename=1015569677.nh&v=MDI1MTlBVkYyNkc3YStGOWZMcUpFYlBJUjhlWDFMdXhZUzdEaDFUM3FUcldNMUZyQ1VSN3FmWU9kckZDdmhXcno=}}</ref> and the challenges in developing a universal influenza vaccine.<ref name="pmid30013557">{{cite journal| author=Valkenburg SA, Leung NHL, Bull MB, Yan LM, Li APY, Poon LLM | display-authors=etal| title=The Hurdles From Bench to Bedside in the Realization and Implementation of a Universal Influenza Vaccine. | journal=Front Immunol | year= 2018 | volume= 9 | issue= | pages= 1479 | pmid=30013557 | doi=10.3389/fimmu.2018.01479 | pmc=6036122 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=30013557 }} </ref> At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic she was employed at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, [[University of Hong Kong]] (HKU), conducting research specialised in virology and immunology.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://virtual.keystonesymposia.org/ks/speakers/view/1097 |website=Keystone Symposia |title=Li-Meng Yan MD, PhD, University of Hong Kong |accessdate=July 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711055340/https://virtual.keystonesymposia.org/ks/speakers/view/1097 |archive-date=July 11, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Dr. Li-Meng is reported to have fled Hong Kong in early April<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/hong-kong-virologist-who-fled-to-us-accuses-china-of-covering-up-covid-threat/ar-BB16CjhT</ref>, before the CCP completed its reacquisition of the Hong Kong territory under direct Beijing control.


== COVID-19 ==
== COVID-19 ==

Revision as of 00:18, 17 September 2020

Li-Meng Yan
EducationCentral South University (Xiangya Medical College) MD
Southern Medical University PhD
Medical career
ProfessionPost-Doctoral Researcher
FieldMedicine
InstitutionsUniversity of Hong Kong School of Public Health
Sub-specialtiesImmunology
ResearchInfluenza vaccine, Cell-mediated immunity

Template:Chinese name Li-Meng Yan (simplified Chinese: 闫丽梦; traditional Chinese: 閆麗夢) or Limeng Yan, or in the USA, Yan Li Meng, is a doctor of Chinese virology and an international whistleblower[1][2][3][4] who claims that SARS-CoV-2 was made in a lab[5] and that the Chinese government and the World Health Organization knew about person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 much earlier than reported.[6]

Childhood and early life

Dr. Li-Meng's is reportedly from the Chinese area of Qingdao.[7] Her family history remains a secret for her and her family's personal safety as they remain inside communist Chinese jurisdiction.


Dr. Li-Meng received her MD from Xiangya Medical College of Central South University. Dr. Li-Meng went on to earn her PhD from Southern Medical University.[8] Her research includes the study of The inhibition effect of propranolol on the corneal neovascularization in an alkali-induced injury mouse model[9] and the challenges in developing a universal influenza vaccine.[10] At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic she was employed at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong (HKU), conducting research specialised in virology and immunology.[11]

Dr. Li-Meng is reported to have fled Hong Kong in early April[12], before the CCP completed its reacquisition of the Hong Kong territory under direct Beijing control.

COVID-19

Yan claims that she was one of the first scientists in the world to study the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, after Leo Poon, her supervisor at HKU (a WHO reference lab), asked her to look into a cluster of SARS-like cases in Wuhan, in December 2019.[7] According to Fox News, Yan maintained an extensive network of medical professionals from mainland China, one of whom told Yan about human-to-human transmission of the novel disease on 31 December 2019.[13] According to Yan, she reported her findings about the virus multiple times to her superiors, including one on 16 January, after which she says she was warned by her supervisor "to keep silent and be careful."[14]

She co-authored a paper called "Pathogenesis and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in golden hamsters", published in Nature in May 2020, regarding transmission of the virus in hamsters. This paper was co-authored by her now former colleagues at HKU.[15] She also co-authored a paper called "Viral dynamics in mild and severe cases of COVID-19" published in The Lancet in March 2020, regarding the viral shedding patterns observed in patients with mild and severe COVID-19. This paper was also co-authored by three of her now former colleagues at HKU.[16]

In interviews, Yan accused the Chinese government of knowing about the novel coronavirus before it publicly said that it did and said that lives could have been saved if they had not censored her work.[7][17] She also accused her supervisors, including Leo Poon and Malik Peiris, of ignoring research that she was doing at the onset of the pandemic that she says could have also saved lives.[7][17] Feeling that she and her colleagues had an obligation to tell the world of their research[18] given their status as a World Health Organization reference laboratory, Yan fled to the United States on 28 April with what she said was her intention of delivering "the message of the truth of COVID," adding if she tried to tell her story in China, she said that she would be "disappeared and killed."[7][17] Yan's interviews and accusations were subsequently cited in other media outlets.[13][19][20][21][3][22][23][24][25]

In July 2020, a press release from HKU denied her claim and stated that "HKU notes that the content of the said news report does not accord with the key facts as we understand them. Specifically, Dr Yan never conducted any research on human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus at HKU during December 2019 and January 2020, her central assertion of the said interview. We further observe that what she might have emphasised in the reported interview has no scientific basis but resembles hearsay."[26] The press release did not mention when and why Yan left HKU.[27] According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the director of HKU's School of Public Health, Keiji Fukuda, said in an internal memo to staff that none of the researchers named by Yan were involved in any cover-up or "secret research".[27]

In September 2020, Yan was interviewed on the talk show Loose Women and said she planned to release scientific evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was made in a Wuhan laboratory. According to Yan, "this virus is not from nature". The director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology has denied that the virus accidentally spread from the facility.[5]

Later in September, Yan co-authored a pre-print research paper named "Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of Its Probable Synthetic Route."[28] Three other researchers were listed as co-authors, but the SCMP was unable to find any prior work from them.[29] The paper was uploaded to the Zenodo website, an open-access repository where anyone can post their research.[30] The paper is affiliated with the Rule of Law Society, founded by Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui.[28][30] The Rule of Law Society had not previously published scientific or medical research.[30] Yan had previously appeared on Bannon's "War Room" podcast.[29][30]

According to the paper's abstract, "SARS-CoV-2 shows biological characteristics that are inconsistent with a naturally occurring, zoonotic virus" and that it could have been created in a lab in approximately six months.[31][32] According to Newsweek, several experts in evolutionary biology and infectious disease, including Jonathan Eisen and Carl Bergstrom, said the paper did not include new information, contained multiple unsubstantiated claims and had a weak scientific case.[28] According to Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University, the paper was "basically all circumstantial and some of it is entirely fictional".[30]

After describing her newly published research paper in a Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson in mid-September 2020, Yan said she believed the Chinese government intentionally released the virus.[33]

On 15 September 2020, Yan's Twitter account was suspended, although the reason for the suspension was unclear. She had only four visible posts and one linked to the preprint paper that had not been peer reviewed.[34]

References

  1. ^ "Coronavirus Whistleblower: Exclusive Fox News Interview". Fox News Videos. July 10, 2020.
  2. ^ Jones, Amy (July 12, 2020). "Former MI6 chief who has made academic claims via published and censored research, that there exists a 'close linkage' between Huawei and Chinese military". The Telegraph. Meanwhile, a Chinese virologist claimed authorities in Beijing knew about the coronavirus outbreak in December, weeks before admitting it to the world. Dr Li-Meng Yan said she was one of the first experts asked to examine a cluster of cases emerging in Wuhan last year. The whistleblower alleges she was given the task by Professor Leo Poon, her supervisor at the Hong Kong School of Public Health.
  3. ^ a b "Whistleblower says China has been lying about coronavirus the whole time". Boy Genius Report. July 13, 2020.
  4. ^ "'We don't have much time': Doctor's disturbing claims about China's virus 'cover-up'". Yahoo Australia. Yahoo Australia. July 14, 2020. Claiming to have "chatlogs" with telling communication with others in China, Dr Li-Meng said she was willing to "provide all the evidence to the US government". She was also aware however of the danger this could put her in, given her knowledge of how China treats whistleblowers.
  5. ^ a b Musumeci, Natalie (September 11, 2020). "Chinese virologist claims she has proof COVID-19 was made in Wuhan lab". New York Post. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  6. ^ Bowden, Ebony (July 10, 2020). "Chinese virologist in hiding after accusing Beijing of coronavirus cover-up". New York Post. Archived from the original on July 10, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
  7. ^ a b c d e Chakraborty, Barnini (July 9, 2020). "EXCLUSIVE: Chinese virologist accuses Beijing of coronavirus cover-up, flees Hong Kong: 'I know how they treat whistleblowers'". Fox News. Archived from the original on July 11, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
  8. ^ CNN Indonesia (August 4, 2020). "Li-Meng Yan, Pakar Virologi Pengungkap Sumber Corona di China". CNN Indonesia (in Indonesian). Retrieved September 16, 2020. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "普萘洛尔对小鼠角膜碱烧伤模型中新生血管抑制作用的实验研究".
  10. ^ Valkenburg SA, Leung NHL, Bull MB, Yan LM, Li APY, Poon LLM; et al. (2018). "The Hurdles From Bench to Bedside in the Realization and Implementation of a Universal Influenza Vaccine". Front Immunol. 9: 1479. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2018.01479. PMC 6036122. PMID 30013557.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  11. ^ "Li-Meng Yan MD, PhD, University of Hong Kong". Keystone Symposia. Archived from the original on July 11, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
  12. ^ https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/hong-kong-virologist-who-fled-to-us-accuses-china-of-covering-up-covid-threat/ar-BB16CjhT
  13. ^ a b Bowden, Ebony (July 10, 2020). "Chinese virologist in hiding after accusing Beijing of coronavirus cover-up". New York Post. Archived from the original on July 10, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
  14. ^ Chakraborty, Barnini. "EXCLUSIVE: Chinese virologist accuses Beijing of coronavirus cover-up, flees Hong Kong: 'I know how they treat whistleblowers'". Retrieved July 11, 2020. She said she reported her findings to her supervisor again on Jan. 16 but that's when he allegedly told her "to keep silent, and be careful." "As he warned me before, 'Don't touch the red line,'" Yan said referring to the government. "We will get in trouble and we'll be disappeared."
  15. ^ "(PDF) Pathogenesis and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in golden hamsters". Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  16. ^ Liu, Yang; Yan, Li-Meng; Wan, Lagen; Xiang, Tian-Xin; Le, Aiping; Liu, Jia-Ming; Peiris, Malik; Poon, Leo L. M.; Zhang, Wei (June 2020). "Viral dynamics in mild and severe cases of COVID-19". The Lancet. Infectious Diseases. 20 (6): 656–657. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30232-2. ISSN 1474-4457. PMC 7158902. PMID 32199493.
  17. ^ a b c "Hong Kong virologist claiming coronavirus cover-up tells 'Bill Hemmer Reports': 'We don't have much time'". Fox.
  18. ^ Chakraborty, Barnini. "EXCLUSIVE: Chinese virologist accuses Beijing of coronavirus cover-up, flees Hong Kong: 'I know how they treat whistleblowers'". Retrieved July 11, 2020. She adds that they likely had an obligation to tell the world, given their status as a World Health Organization reference laboratory specializing in influenza viruses and pandemics, especially as the virus began spreading in the early days of 2020.
  19. ^ "Hong Kong virologist, who fled to US, accuses China of covering up Covid threat". The Print. July 11, 2020.
  20. ^ "Chinese virologist, who fled Hong Kong, accuses Beijing of coronavirus cover-up". Wion. MSN India.
  21. ^ Jones, Amy (July 12, 2020). "Former MI6 chief claims there is 'close linkage' between Huawei and Chinese military". The Telegraph.
  22. ^ "'We don't have much time': Doctor's disturbing claims about China's virus 'cover-up'". Yahoo Australia. Yahoo Australia. July 14, 2020.
  23. ^ "Chinese Virologist Details Beijing's Lies about the Contagiousness of the Coronavirus". National Review.
  24. ^ "Virologist who fled to US from Hong Kong". ANI. Times of India. July 11, 2020.
  25. ^ "Chinese govt knew about coronavirus, tried to cover it up: Hong Kong scientist who fled to US". India Today. July 11, 2020.
  26. ^ "HKU responds to the media concerning a former staff member's TV interview". July 11, 2020. Retrieved July 12, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  27. ^ a b Low, Zoe (July 16, 2020). "Coronavirus: HKU school head chides former worker for tarring reputation of ex-colleagues on American TV over alleged research cover-up" South China Morning Post.
  28. ^ a b c G, Kashmira; EDT, er On 9/15/20 at 5:09 PM (September 15, 2020). "Fact-check: Does a new study give evidence that the coronavirus was made in a lab?". Newsweek. Retrieved September 16, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  29. ^ a b Baptista, Eduardo (September 16, 2020) "‘Artificial coronavirus’ study linked to Steve Bannon and Chinese fugitive Guo Wengui" South China Morning Post.
  30. ^ a b c d e "Steve Bannon Is Behind Bogus Study That China Created COVID". The Daily Beast. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  31. ^ Yan, Li-Meng; Kang, Shu; Guan, Jie; Hu, Shanchang (September 14, 2020). "Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of Its Probable Synthetic Route". doi:10.5281/zenodo.4028830. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  32. ^ "Chinese virologist Dr Li-Meng Yan publishes report claiming COVID-19 was made in a lab". www.theaustralian.com.au. September 15, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  33. ^ Dorman, Sam (September 15, 2020). "Chinese virologist: China's government 'intentionally' released COVID-19". Fox News. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  34. ^ Murdock, Jason (September 16, 2020). "Twitter Suspends Account of Chinese Virologist Who Claimed Coronavirus Was Made in a Lab". Newsweek. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
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