Originally Posted by
dcsnowwake
SARS was a big coverup, and hope this stops the spread, just really bad timing with the lunar new year
Well, China filed a casual low-priority report indicating a rise in pneumonia cases in Wuhan with the WHO on December 31. On January 6, the WHO was caught off guard when the WSJ broke the story that well suddenly there were 59 unexplained cases of pneumonia already and they were dealing with a completely new strain of virus. China
begrudgingly confirmed that to the WHO on January 7 and only from that point on was the appropriate urgency level assigned.
They've been more forthcoming with data since, but it's safe to assume they're still underreporting the number of cases.