Covid-19: meet the doctor who became an online celebrity for his straight talk


Shanghai-based infectious disease expert Zhang Wenhong shot to fame thanks to his outspoken videos about the outbreak. Now he wants to use his status to spread scientific knowledge, he says. — SCMP

A Shanghai-based infectious disease doctor has shot to fame during the coronavirus outbreak for his outspoken, down-to-earth talk about the disease.

Zhang Wenhong, director of Huashan Hospital’s department of infectious disease and of the Shanghai panel overseeing the treatment of Covid-19 – the disease caused by the new coronavirus – has gained tens of millions of followers on social media and been dubbed “Dad Zhang”.

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