That is patently false. The CDC head was briefed by the Chinese "around New Year's Day" 2020 (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/testing-coronavirus-pa...). By Jan 7, 2020 the CDC had already setup a task force to deal with the COVID threat. I certainly don't want to defend the Chinese government. I'm sure there are a lot of things they did wrong (on top of all the horrendous human rights abuses they commit on a daily basis), but the whole narrative of blaming China for COVID seems like an obvious ploy to shit blame away from our own incompetent response. The fact of the matter is that we saw this coming in slow motion and comprehensively failed to respond in a way that could have prevented this human tragedy.