Obviously his censorship by the Chinese government was dumb and harmful and obviously he was right about the virus. But I don't quite understand how an opthalmologist would be equipped to identify Coronavirus. Does anyone have the details here?
A patient could have come to him with symptoms of a conjunctivitis [1]:
> As explained by Dr. Ignasi Jürgens, medical director of ICR, some reports suggest that the virus can cause conjunctivitis and be transmitted by aerosol contact with the conjunctiva. Therefore, patients who go to the ophthalmologist for conjunctivitis and have respiratory symptoms, in addition to having traveled abroad, especially to China, could be suspected of having the virus.
He didn't identify it, he just told the public about it.