US Senate Unanimously Honors China’s Coronavirus Whistleblower

Chinese students and their supporters hold a memorial for Dr Li Wenliang, who was the whistleblower of the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, and caused the doctor's death in that city, outside the UCLA campus in Westwood, Calif., on Feb. 15, 2020. MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. Senate has honored the Chinese doctor who raised the alarm on the outbreak of the coronavirus late last year in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

By unanimous consent, the Senate on March 3 passed Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) resolution to commemorate the life of Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist who warned his former medical school classmates that the hospital where he worked had quarantined seven patients with a disease similar to SARS, the deadly respiratory disease that ravaged China in 2003.