China’s Chief Medical Consultant for the Wuhan Coronavirus Is Infected With the Disease

China’s Chief Medical Consultant for the Wuhan Coronavirus Is Infected With the Disease
Medical staff transfer patients to Jinyintan hospital in Wuhan, China on Jan. 17, 2020. Getty Images
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A Chinese medical expert who assured the public that the “Wuhan pneumonia is controllable” has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus after visiting Wuhan City as one of the chief medical consultants for this new viral pneumonia.

Wang Guangfa, Director of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at Peking University First Hospital, confirmed with Chinese state media on Jan. 21 that he was diagnosed with the coronavirus, also known as Wuhan pneumonia.