On Chinese social media on January 8 there was a posting about it. In fact there was a lot of posting in January, February, and March. They were quickly censored. It made the Chinese government look incompetent. If a student picked them up, CIA must have. So you can take the warning date as of January 8. All around the world, governments were slow to react. And pretty incompetently, too. How many ramped up PPE in January ? , or even February ? It's not like they hadn't seen it before, remember SARS in 2003 ? It was much more lethal, but not nearly as contagious. It, too, came out of a Chinese wet market. When will the Chinese learn, I guess stupidity and greed go hand in hand. In South Korea and Taiwan you saw everybody in masks. They had experienced SARS, too.
