“China announced human-human transmission in late Jan, and our CDC nearly broke out laughing.”
I don’t think China announced it, rather some researchers there published a paper to that effect.
But when it got to their political leadership, they denied human/human and had WHO do the same...hence the mess we have.
The head of China CDC made the announcement.
I’d pull the online articles if I thought it was still an important matter.
China lied
People died