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And arguably the CCP has lost far more face by trying to cover everything up, than if they'd admitted there was a leak in the first place, if there was.

In any case, they should have sent out the alarm, and worked quickly and cooperatively to halt it. For example, they should have cancelled outbound flights from Wuhan while the virus was raging there and they were barricading apartment blocks. It looks, at best, negligent that they did not.