Any intelligence service worth its salt would have kept a close eye on the situation developing in China, so in that respect this is not unexpected. Personally I knew this could be very bad when I started hearing news about the Chinese qarantining first Wuhan, then the surrounding cities. This involved huge numbers of people and was done quite swiftly and on a scale never seen before in modern times (to my knowledge…
The newsworthy bit isn't that intelligence services noted the potential threat. It's that the White House chose to ignore them.
The White House ignoring sound advice and doing its own thing... we've had a few good years of that. How is that news? (By White House I mean one person, and I'm saying this in a jokey way)