This shouldn't come as any surprise: China Gets Defensive on SARS Record: Change in Tone Dampens Hopes for Political Reform (By Philip P. Pan):

the Chinese government today dismissed criticism that it was slow to respond to the SARS crisis, denying it tried to hide the outbreak, refusing to praise the doctor who exposed the coverup and asserting that it had warned the world about the virus in early February.

But that's not what most of us were hoping/expecting.