After testing positive for COVID-19 on March 23, two days after his birthday, Leaning said he was told by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention that he would be sent to a quarantine facility despite his relatively mild symptoms.
Government officials picked him up on March 25 and transported him to a hospital, after waiting for two days due to a lack of space, he said. He wore a white hazmat suit with a mask and plastic face shield given to him while traveling in the back of an ambulance…
The first night he spent at the Shanghai hospital, Leaning slept in a freezing cold room on a mattress he said was only two inches thick. He was placed in a closed room with three other people, he said…
In one video filmed at a different Shanghai facility, dozens of people could be seen placed in beds close to one another.
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