> Hindsight 20/20 as they say Sorry, but that excuse won't fly for several reasons: 1) We had sars-1 and mers earlier, both corona viruses 2) China was slow

> Hindsight 20/20 as they say Sorry, but that excuse won't fly for several reasons: 1) We had sars-1 and mers earlier, both corona viruses 2) China was slow in providing info initially, but eventually they did. There's a number of papers to read online. (Same as in sars-1, where world notification was delayed from Nov. 2002 to about Mar. 2003.) 3) The CDC and other agencies are supposed to be on top of pandemics. The White House has a pandemic playbook. These are paid professionals who are supposed to have foresight, not blame hindsight. (FYI: one of the US disease pros involved said that false alerts essentially neutered pandemic response since 2010 in this country. I empathize with that. All I can suggest is to point out that sars-1 killed thousands, and mers and sars-2 are also coronas.)