Pandemic preparation exercises 2019

[large donner]

Selected moments from the Event 201 pandemic tabletop exercise hosted by The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated the pandemic preparedness efforts needed to diminish the large-scale economic and societal consequences of a severe pandemic. Drawing from actual events, Event 201 identifies important policy issues and preparedness challenges that could be solved with sufficient political will and attention. These issues were designed in a narrative to engage and educate the participants and the audience. For more information, visit: http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.or...

 

[Simbindi]

I am hoping that pandemic control will become part of the national science curriculum in our schools in the future (both primary and secondary at the appropriate level).

 

[Andy]

I took part in simulated exercises to prepare my country for the practical, economic and social shock waves from rare but devastating events — volcanic eruptions that affect whole hemispheres, meteor strikes, zoonotic epidemics and other calamities. I recall a practice run for an influenza pandemic in which about 200,000 people died. It left me shattered.

We learnt what would help, but did not necessarily implement those lessons. The assessment, in many sectors of government, was that the resulting medicine was so strong that it would be spat out. Nobody likes living under a fortress mentality.

Two messages were clear. First, that we were poorly prepared. Second, that governments would quickly be called on to cover the damage. They are the insurers of last resort, even if they rarely quantify and plan for those risks. Our experience of COVID‑19 is showing just how true this is, and suggests what we should do once recovery begins.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00919-3

 

[spinoza577]

Copied from this thread.

I think this for comparison would be interesting:

wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Contagion
In Jan-Aug there had been an investigation carried out in the USA,
on what would happen if a sever influenza epidemic would take place.
The simulation came to this result:

Several tourists fall ill with a respiratory illness while in China and fly home to their respective countries before fully developing symptoms. The virus spreads quickly throughout the world with the first detection in the United States occurring in Chicago (the host city for the exercise). The virus is dubbed 'H7N9 Influenza'. Conduct of Crimson Contagion begins at a point 47 days after the first case is discovered in the United States. The scenario forecasts 110 million infections, 7.7 million hospitalizations, and 586,000 deaths in the U.S. alone.[3]

from wikipedia