exactly! it's sort of infuriating watching the USA try to flip the narrative and blame the chinese.
by january, the possibility for widespread pandemic was well known.
Oh really?by january, the possibility for widespread pandemic was well known.
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
January 14:
https://i.imgur.com/PJ8PgoE.png
yes really. january 21: China confirms human-to-human transmission of coronavirus
<...> the USA government knew the potential in january yet they did absolutely nothing <...>
First known covid19 case in the US was confirmed on January 20. 11 days later, the US govt (despite people saying they were racists) bans travels from China (Jan 31).
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/31/801686524/trump-declares-coronavirus-a-public-health-emergency-and-restricts-travel-from-c
Reminder that a few days later, the WHO said that such measures were excessive: https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-02-04-20/h_267d4c445f4bf4730abca05eccc62c67 Imagine what would've happened if they hadn't impose such ban
But if by "nothing" you mean they didn't "stock up supplies, produce ventilators, an impose social distancing", then, obviously they were not going to do anything, there wasn't enough data (that's what Dr Birx and Dr Fauci from the coronavirus task force keep talking about ALL the time: data) to begin with so there was no reason to "do something" since nothing was happening in the US, at least according to the CDC and Health Department who seem to be hungry for more and more data.