Event 201: A Global Pandemic Exercise

Source: Center for Health Security [Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health]. Published: 10/18/2019. This high-level pandemic exercise was held on October 18, 2019, in New York City to illustrate the pandemic preparedness efforts, response decisions, and cooperation required from global businesses, governments, and public health leaders that the world will need to diminish the large-scale economic and societal consequences of a severe pandemic. The exercise scenario simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic. (Video or Multimedia)
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