EVENT 201: High-level Pandemic Exercise On October 18, 2019, in New York - John Hopkins, WEF & Gates Faoundation

Just say NO to drills! This is a testament to stop doing Drills. Everytime the government does one the darnest thing happens, it really happens.  Boston, 9/11, Sandy Hook, 7/7/05 London, Aurora, San Bernardino, Coronavirus. I'm forgetting a dozen more...

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The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.

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

What a coincidence? Reminds me how Netanyahu predicted terrorist would attack buildings in NY.

Statement about nCoV (coronavirus) and our pandemic exercise

In October 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise called Event 201 with partners, the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Recently, the Center for Health Security has received questions about whether that pandemic exercise predicted the current novel coronavirus outbreak in China. To be clear, the Center for Health Security and partners did not make a prediction during our tabletop exercise. For the scenario, we modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly stated that it was not a prediction. Instead, the exercise served to highlight preparedness and response challenges that would likely arise in a very severe pandemic. We are not now predicting that the nCoV-2019 outbreak will kill 65 million people. Although our tabletop exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019. http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/newsroom/center-news/2020-01-24-S...