America's response has been somewhat alarming. In 2018, the Trump admin cut funding to a lot of health programs to deal with pandemic responses at the CDC, HHS, etc: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump...

Recent proposals are asking for more cuts: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/10/trump-world-health-orga...

Recently, the CDC has botched test kit rollouts, preventing widespread testing: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/20/cdc-coronavirus-116...

Without getting too political, I don't have any confidence that America's response will get it done.