CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC EXCERISE IN OCTOBER 2019

For its most recent “exercise,” called Event 201 which was held in New York City in October, the Center for Health Security partnered with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to engage 15 leaders in business, government, and public health to model response to a worldwide coronavirus pandemic. At the start of the exercise, the world was 3 months in, and there were already more than 500,000 cases globally.

By its end, worldwide leaders were faced with a pandemic that involved more than 10 million cases, with the disease spreading rapidly through low-income districts of “mega-cities” around the world. Governments had issued travel bans, crippling the global travel and tourism industries. Thanks to these and other factors, the global economy was in “freefall,” with financial markets in tatters.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AoLw-Q8X174 [Embed]

https://www.contagionlive.com/news/johns-hopkins-initiative-hopes-to-better-prepare-for-pandemics-public-health-watch

http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/videos.html