Yes. Perhaps Rand Paul was looking at what was actually going on in China and the US in January and February 2020 instead of listening to the misinformation campaign from the mainstream media that “the flu is a bigger threat” and “the coronavirus is just a distraction from impeachment”.
The information was out there even if social media and the major news outlets were doing their best to downplay the significance. If you doubt that, just take a look at his thread with links to articles from that period.