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In assessing the global public health and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of China’s dictatorial government in initially suppressing vital information about the virus must be universally condemned.

But will it ever happen?

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China first contacted the World Health Organization about COVID-19 on Dec. 31, 2019, soothingly claiming what we now know is a highly-contagious, potentially deadly coronavirus, was “preventable and controllable.”

But a March 23 reconstruction of events by the National Review— “The Comprehensive Timeline of China’s COVID-19 Lies” — convincingly argues that by the time China finally acknowledged on Jan. 20 that COVID-19 was capable of human-to-human transmission — having previously suppressed growing evidence of this going back to mid-December — it was already too late to stop its global spread.

A review of cell phone transmissions by the New York Times published March 22 — “How the Virus Got Out” — shows that by Jan. 20, millions of people had already been in and out of the pandemic’s original epicentre in Wuhan, a city of 11 million, where it is believed to have originated in a seafood and live animal market.