China likely withheld information about the severity of the corona virus outbreak so it would have time to hoard of medical supplies that's according to a department of homeland security intelligence estimate earlier I went in depth with Betsy Woodruff swan national correspondent for politico what the report found what department of homeland security has concluded is that the Chinese government delayed formally notifying the World Health Organization about how contagious the novel coronavirus was until it had time to begin doing two things first reducing global export of medical supplies and second reaching the level of medical supplies that it was importing and S. D. H. S. report sees a causal link between the decision to shore up domestic stores of medical supplies in China and the decision to delay alerting the World Health Organization informally about just how contagious the new coronavirus wise