DHS report: The Chinese government likely withheld information about the severity of the coronavirus outbreak so it would have time to hoard medical supplies
The Trump administration has been increasingly critical of the Chinese government’s handling of the early stages of what became a global pandemic, faulting Beijing for what U.S. officials say is a lack of transparency about key aspects of the coronavirus outbreak.the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern” on Jan. 30, and the United States banned some travel from China a day later., China first notified the global health body of an unknown pneumonia-like disease on Dec.
Raddatz alluded to unspecified "intelligence officials ... saying that the Chinese government intentionally concealed the severity of Covid-19 from the international community in early January while it stockpiled medical supplies. "Martha, you’ve got the facts just about right," Pompeo replied. "We can confirm that the Chinese Communist Party did all that it could to make sure that the world didn’t learn in a timely fashion about what was taking place. There’s lots of evidence of that. Some of it you can see in public, right? We’ve seen announcements. We’ve seen the fact that they kicked journalists out.
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