I believe people in the U.S. were starting to sound alarms when they saw what was going on in China. We know theirs is an authoritarian regime inclined to hide information about things that might make them look bad, and epidemiologists here know what “novel” pathogens can do. People did try to sound the alarm, but it was suppressed by our administration. It didn’t help that our administration had dismantled agencies which could have helped us prepare.
I believe people in the U.S. were starting to sound alarms when they saw what was going on in China. We know theirs is an authoritarian regime inclined to hide information about things that might make them look bad, and epidemiologists here know what “novel” pathogens can do. People did try to sound the alarm, but it was suppressed by our administration. It didn’t help that our administration had dismantled agencies which could have helped us prepare.