there was an outbreak of a serious a but not communicable disease that was easily contained and will hodgman the chinese government's early handling of the disease and failure to adequately report information to the w.h.o. breached article $6.00 and $7.00 of the international health regulations at treaty to which china is signatory and legally obliged to uphold these breaches allowed the outbreak to rep at least spread outside will han its blaze of origin the chinese nonetheless have been lying since the started if the chinese had been honest from day one if they had talked about how serious this was in the flight bans would have started much sooner travel would have been restricted much sooner and the world could have been really prepared for this and we weren't and so now we're suffering and we're losing american lives and the u.k. has also signed onto the plan to blame china a british think tank recommended an international lawsuit saying that up to 4 trillion dollars could be paid by china just g 7 countries and that's after a 20 trillion dollar lawsuit from some american firms meanwhile