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The US government doesn't rely on Chinese state news. US Intelligence independently tracked the virus and briefed the President on it on January 3rd [0]. It's p

The US government doesn't rely on Chinese state news. US Intelligence independently tracked the virus and briefed the President on it on January 3rd [0]. It's plausible to assume that there was not even a single case of coronavirus in the United States at that time: and yet the administration waited until the 31st of January to suspend travel from China. Compare this to the previous administration's work on Ebola [1]. [0] https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/intel-agencies-covid-november/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/intel-agencies-covid... [1] https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ebola-response https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ebola-response

makomk 7y ago
That CNN article claims that US intelligence agencies somehow knew about the outbreak before, as far as we know, even the actual doctors on the ground in Wuhan did. All of the known timelines point to doctors there spotting the first cases in December and becoming increasingly alarmed about it at the month wore on; the headline claim in that article is that the US knew about it in November. Small wonder that the intelligence agency in question issued a rare public, on-the-record denial.