I recently watched a Peter Zeihan video in which he asserted that the CCP shut down outbound domestic travel from Wuhan a week before it shut down international flights from there.

Fairly damning if true. I went digging, in spite of kind-of remembering that to be the order of events (memories are notoriously unreliable).

The first references I can find of this are about Peter Navarro's comments on a May 15 2020 broadcast of the Fox Business program “WSJ at Large", but the associated Fox Business webpage doesn't go into this particular. So, looking for contemporaneous reporting...

Wed Jan 22 WaPo article mentioning domestic travel shut down Thursday (so the 16th?)

Thurs Jan 23 WaPo article mentioning 'more than half of all flights cancelled' on Thursday (also the 16th?) and that US bound flights were being rerouted to airports set up for screening - which would indicate that the CCP was still allowing international outbound flights.

Zeihan is typically reliable about past/historical events, Navarro clearly has an axe to grind — but if this is true, I’m surprised there isn’t a bigger deal being made of it.

If anyone has links to contemporaneous reporting on this, I’d love to see them. I also appreciate finding out when I’m wrong about something (why I’m laying out what I could find).