U.S. intelligence agencies missed an opportunity to better understand the spread of Covid-19 because they didn’t quickly begin spying on Chinese health officials, a newly declassified report says.
that U.S. spies collected raw intelligence in November indicating a health crisis in Wuhan, China.
The site of a hospital being built to treat patients from the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on Jan. 24, 2020.The analyst, identified as Mark, flagged the notice in a report titled “Note: Possible Pandemic Warning Update” and put it in a database that is used by U.S. military commanders around the world.The same day, The Associated Press published a story about the ProMED notice, which came to the attention of White House officials, the House report says.
Nonetheless, on Jan. 24, 2020, the National Center for Medical Intelligence issued an intelligence report saying that “since mid-December, a novel coronavirus has emerged in China, which has a roughly even chance of becoming a global pandemic during the next four months.” “I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because I don’t want to create a panic,” Trump said in a March 19, 2020, call with Woodward.
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