[My Why had more to do with the timing. It says, The past few weeks. Why did they wait so long to leave China? And if it was 3-4 wks ago, why are they in self quarantine?]
Even today, we’re not exactly sure we have anything to worry about. People are panicked because they’re afraid the Chinese government is lying big time about mortality and infection rates. The thinking is that there must be some nefarious reason why they’re not letting foreign researchers in. Maybe we need to add zeroes to the end of the death or infected numbers.
“It may have seemed like a long time, but the Wuhan quarantine began only 4 weeks ago.”
I guess it seems like it’s been in the news for more like 6 wks.