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”.
