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

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.