Caixin is a Beijing-based media group providing financial and business news and information. Hu Shuli (胡舒立), who is known for her outspoken style, founded it in 2010.
Caixin reported that 11 elderly people from the Wuhan Social Welfare Institute (武汉社会福利院) had died from the coronavirus.
On February 21, the Wuhan Network Information Office released a notice from the Wuhan Civil Affairs Bureau saying that Caixin’s report was a rumor. Only one elderly person had died there.
On February 24, Caixin countered that the social welfare institute only counted people who died between February 11 and February 19. According to its news reporters’ findings, from late December 2019 to February 19, 2020, several elderly people there had developed coronavirus symptoms and then died.
Caixin further published a death list from the institute which stated that 15 people died from December 23, 2019 to February 11, 2020 and another 4 died from February 11 to 18.
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Image of death list:
Excerpt in Chinese:
财新网此前报道，来自武汉社会福利院的小林（化名）对财新记者透露，其所工作的科室大约有11位老人去世了，都是因为反复发烧最后呼吸衰竭而死。她在福利院内部武汉济民医院六楼病房工作，经CT检查发现肺部有感染，不过官方披露其新冠核酸检测结果为阴性，正在进行第二次核酸检测。
2月21日晚9点14分，武汉市网信办官微“武汉发布”披露了武汉市民政局的一则辟谣，其中武汉市社会福利院和武汉市硚口区古田融济康养中心就最新防疫情况作出回应，称武汉市社会福利院“对于排查出来的确诊、疑似病例立即向相关医疗机构转移，没有网上报道中所说11名老人因反复发烧、呼吸衰竭而死的问题”。
从武汉市社会福利院的回应看，其开始对院内人员进行实质性筛查和确诊，始于2月11日之后。
这则回应统计样本人群范围也仅限于2月11日至2月19日接受核酸检测者。经财新记者多方了解，在此之前，从2019年12月底至2020年2月19日之前，该福利院早已出现多名老人在出现发热、胸闷、食欲不振等新冠病毒感染特征之后去世。
财新记者获得的一份该院死亡人员名单显示，2019年12月23日至2020年2月11日，短短50天中，共15人死亡，此后到2月18日，又有4人去世，平均几乎每3天死亡一人。其中死亡原因登记和感染及感染性休克有关的为8人。名单中直到2月15日才出现第一例明确登记为死于新冠的83岁男性老者，一共6名去世老人死亡原因登记为“肺部感染”，5人发生在2月11日以前。2月12日一名86岁女性死者死因登记显示为“肺部感染？”，问号的出现表明未有彻底结论。全部死者年纪大多处于80到90岁，有糖尿病、脑梗死、重度失能等基础性疾病。其中另有多人死因为感染性休克、急性心肌梗死、猝死、心律失常，但据内部工作人员透露，其中出现发烧症状的不在少数。
Source: Caixin, February 24, 2020
http://www.caixin.com/2020-02-24/101519505.html