i haven't answered a question with regard to li wenliang. you talk about the cover—up. ang reported through a normal channel to health authorities, but li spread the word among his friends. in an independent country, when you have something, the virus which is dangerous to people's health, when something unknown, there might always be a panic. i think the police authority summoned li to warn him not to do it. you cannot say this is a cover—up since on the opposite channel, we report to the normal channel but on this, we need to make sure that there should be no panic. even today in uk... but the evidence... i think your government is fighting about this misinformation. you know, some people try to use this to create panic for their own gain. but we have... i think li's case is closed. and then, after it's reported to the central authorities, the government centre investigation team down to wuhan and find out that they did the right thing. and the police reprimand has been revoked and li was made martyr and given the highest of honour... but we have... dr li was indeed re

li wenliang was trying to save. the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. >> woodruff: that brings us to "ask us," where we take ur questions on the coronavirus to experts who can help make sense of these challenging times. we have had an incredible response across our website andi ous social media platforms: twitter, instagram and facebook. for the record, facebook itha funder onewshour. amna nawaz has more. >> nawaz: thanks, judy.an and to all of you for sending us your questions. this week, we're focusing on your concerns about mental health. and from the responses we got, it's clear it's an issue that's hitting home for many w. you right so, to answer your queions, we're joined by dr. suvarma. she's clinical assistant professor of psychiatrat new york university.d welcome anks for being here, dr. varma. y >> tha for having me. >> nawaz: so let's jump right into the questions. our first one comes from sherry williams in columbus, ohio. here.ent us a video onebook >> oftentimes, i'm laying awake at night with my mind r

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li wenliang from wuhan, who was summoned to the police and later caught coronavirus and died in the hospital, and he's since become a hero in china. the disease, of course, has spread to a pandemic that has claimed tens of thousands of lives. and any additional information or research we can have about this disease will probably be important. no country, arguically, has more data than china, which detected the first known cases of coronavirus. and now there seem to be new obstacles to sharing that research with the outside world. ivan watson, cnn, hong kong. ♪ >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. this is a special edition of "the situation room." we begin this moisture with a stunning admission from the nation's top infectious disease expert and a shocking number out of new york right now. the city's total number of cases now over 100,000. that news coming as dr. anthony fauci tells cnn more lives could have been saved if the administration had followed the advice of health experts

in february this chinese doctor, li wenliang, tried to raise the alarm about the rapid spread of covidcontracting the virus at wuhan central hospital. sophie richardson is the china directorfor human rights watch. rather than rebutting false information and sharing reliable data itself let the chinese government moved swiftly to do was accuse people of quote spreading rumours and finding ways of silencing then including the doctorate you just mentioned. it also extended to citizen journalists like one who has disappeared two months ago and has not been seen since but it also arranged all the way through censoring social media posts including families who were simply trying to get help and censoring articles or other kind of news that people might have found useful and helpful in this time of crisis in japan shinzo useful and helpful in this time of crisis injapan shinzo abe declared a state of emergency. people are being advised to stay inside and businesses will shut. coronavirus infections in tokyo have more than doubled in the past week to about 1,200. it comes after the government