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According to information released on the official website of the China Association for Science and Technology, pharmacologist Jiang Hualiang’s cause of illness has nothing to do with COVID-19, and the relevant hospital concluded that it was cardiac arrest.

Jiang Hualiang (January 1965 - December 23, 2022), male, born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, is a pharmacologist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, member of the China Democratic Alliance, and former director and researcher of the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences.