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Reported Dec 31, 2019, eh?
I was terminally online during that time, and some reports of a truly awful pneumonia in China were going around as early as mid-November. It was definitely known to be a major outbreak by early December. A lot of the early reports were taken down; just ~~CCCP~~ CCP doing ~~CCCP~~ CCP things.
Edit: whoops thought it had that extra C in there. Should probably use CPC anyway.
When is the earliest heath officials reported it though? That paragraph doesn't disagree with your memory.
Considering there were quarantines in December, I'm pretty sure health officials were in the know. Though official international reporting may not have happened until Dec 31.
Well yeah. If people all over the world knew weeks earlier, obviously the health officials knew. But if they didn't report it before, that doesn't disagree with the textbook.