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Wounded Bear

(58,718 posts)
2. The exact date was probably included in a classified intel briefing, so probably not...
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 10:37 AM
Mar 2020

and we may never know more than a general statement.

But it was in all reliable (non-Murdoch) media by then. Best way to guess would be to look back and see when Trump and Fox started pooh-poohing it.

Botany

(70,588 posts)
4. He or his administration was warned about the very real threat of a global pandemic ...
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 10:44 AM
Mar 2020

... in January of 2017 and they did nothing.

In the summer of 2019 he fired a C.D.C. expert who was stationed in China and
her job was to watch out for just such diseases as C-19.

Our intel had knowledge of C-19 in China in Nov. 2019.

The first case of C-19 in the United States was found in Seattle by the Dept. of Health/University of Washington
in late Jan./early Feb. 2020. The CDC (under Trump) told the scientists to stop testing and not talk about
their findings.

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