This article came out January 9th. The story is still up without the accurate info at @nytimes.

@WSJ broke down the actual timeline. Link here, details in screenshots below: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/how-it-all-started-chinas-early-coronavirus-missteps-11583508932 https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1215181451190251520

Oh. And if you were asking yourself “I wonder what the World Health Organization was doing about it at the time?” feast your eyes on their tweets. @WHO

From the Times piece that illuminates more than I’m sure the authors originally thought, particularly about @WHO:

@WHO, do you still stand by the idea that their handling of the coronavirus “demonstrates China’s increased capacity to manage new outbreaks”?

I’m no expert, but I would imagine it would be beneficial if China did this? Maybe even if they had done it in January, when this article seems to imply they could/should be able to?

I don’t think history will look kindly on this assumption.

Unrelated but I’m still waiting for an updated name for MERS, because surely it’s racist against a vulnerable group to call it Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, right?

Weird we aren’t talking about that as part of our definitely earnest and authentic race/virus discussion.

Your reminder that these wet markets are back up and active. So only a matter of time before this happens again.

That the most prominent newspaper in America got this story so wrong - in no small part because of the consistent lies told by China - is one thing.

That they continue to report in a way that doesn’t reflect they’ve learned from the experience is putting lives at risk.