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WeChat censors elderly Shanghai man’s lockdown pleas for medical help

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China has censored audio of an 82-year-old man pleading for assistance from a local official to see a doctor. The story underscores numerous reports of Shanghai residents not being able to access food and medical care and the attempts to cover up the situation. “I can’t stand it now. I’ve finished all my medication,” the man identified as Yu Wenming told the local official in the phone call. “My throat hurts. My temperature is spiraling up.” The CCP official in charge of Yu’s neighborhood, Zhang Zhen, told Yu that he can only be able to get him traditional medicine because…

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