section as WHO ) to instruct its China Country Office to request verification of the outbreak from the communist government of the People’s Republic of China. (4) In response to the WHO-prompted inquiry, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission issued its first public statement on the outbreak, saying it had identified 27 cases. (5) On January 3, 2020, in what is clear conduct by the Chinese government to cover up the origins and dangers posed by the outbreak, Dr. Li Wenliang, a physician at Wuhan Central Hospital, was reprimanded by local police in the Public Security Bureau for spreading allegedly false statements about the outbreak online. (6) On January 3, 2020, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (referred to in this section as China CDC ) Director-General Gao Fu told the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (referred to in this section as United States CDC ) Director Robert Redfield about a pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. (7) On January 6, 2020, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex M. Azar II, and the United States CDC Director Redfield offered to send United States CDC experts to China and the United States CDC issued a Watch Level 1 Alert for Wuhan, meaning that the United States CDC recognized a heightened risk for travelers, cautioning travelers to use health precautions when traveling to areas in China. (8) On January 11, 2020, a team led by Professor Yong-Zhen Zhang of Fudan University in Shanghai posted the genetic sequence of the novel virus on an open-access platform, sharing it with the world. (9) On January 14, 2020, the WHO tweeted, Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus (2019–nCoV) identified in Wuhan, China . The WHO’s assertion has been proven false and completely contrary to medical science given that there have been nearly 163,000,000 cases of infection worldwide, resulting in more than 3,380,000 deaths. (10) On