Li Wenliang, a face to the frontline healthcare worker. The first doctor to notify the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2, (COVID-19), outbreak

• Eskild Petersen,
• David Hui,
• Davidson H. Hamer,
• Lucille Blumberg,
• Lawrence C. Madoff,
• Marjorie Pollack,
• Shui Shan Lee,
• Susan McLellan,
• Ziad Memish,
• Ira Praharaj,
• Sean Wasserman,
• Francine Ntoumi,
• Esam Ibraheem Azhar,
• Timothy D. Mchugh,
• Richard Kock,
• Guiseppe Ippolito,
• Ali Zumla,
• Marion Koopmans

Affiliations

Eskild Petersen

Directorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman; European Sociaty for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Basel, Switzerland; Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark; Corresponding author at: Directorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman.

David Hui

Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China

Davidson H. Hamer

Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

Lucille Blumberg

National Institute for Communicable Diseases, A Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

Lawrence C. Madoff

International Society for Infectious Diseases, Boston, MA, USA; University of Massachusetts, Division of Infectious Diseases, Worcester, MA, USA

Marjorie Pollack

International Society for Infectious Diseases, Boston, MA, USA

Shui Shan Lee

Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

Susan McLellan

Biocontainment Treatment Unit, Biosafety for Research-Related Infectious Pathogens, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

Ziad Memish

Research Centre, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Ira Praharaj

Indian Council of Medical Research, Department of Health Research, New Delhi, India

Sean Wasserman

Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Francine Ntoumi

Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale/Université Marien Ngouabi, Republic of Congo and Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Germany

Esam Ibraheem Azhar

King Fahd Medical Research Center (KFMRC), Medical Laboratory Technology Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Timothy D. Mchugh

Center for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, United Kingdom

Richard Kock

The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Guiseppe Ippolito

National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy

Ali Zumla

Center for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Marion Koopmans

Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands