We’ve seen articles like this from February on.
It’s not unreasonable to suspect this is true.
It would go a long way to explain the hair on fire response of governments to this all of a sudden. From ‘it’s just a bad cold’ to ‘OMG! panic!’.
One of the things about Taiwan was that they DID NOT WAIT until China/WHO owned up to saying truthful things, or until facts were ‘proven’.
Instead they knew 3 THINGS - they knew where China had their Level 4 lab, they knew where the virus started, and they understood to never trust a thing out of China.
That was ALL they needed - they knew this would be bad, really, really, bad...and so far, they’ve gotten it right, and are doing far better than the US or Europe.