ongoing or that it’s about to happen, and can only be authorized by the state department as it has impact to economic activity and so on. At that time there was no such proof.The first expert team was sent in by end of last year, but the first death didn’t occur until Jan 7, even then it was a death due to pneumonia of unknown cause. The doctor only know the patient develop a severe pneumonia, the CT shown two white lung, a symptom of HIV at late stage, the doctor run all diagnosis which all turned out negative. Like the doctor who draws from all his knowledge to treat his patient, I suspect the first team draw too much from the SARS experience, unfortunately although this is a new Coronavirus, it show entirely opposite attributes.
They should have pay more attention to the new situation and adjust accordingly. I questioned the first team was qualified or not only because it required a second team to overturn their assessment. The earliest they could call for containment I guess is around mid-Jan. But they could have give warning, advice precautionary measure such as wearing mask, sanitize, and so on earlier. Anyway there’s new lesson to be learn here where past lesson is inadequate.
