Bill Gates and many others, and of course the

Bill Gates and many others, and of course the WHO, have just simulated another pandemic

Almost three years ago to the day, the same people behind Event 201 completed a simulation for a new enterovirus originating near Brazil. The virus has a higher mortality rate than COVID-19 and disproportionately affects children.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in collaboration with WHO and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, conducted the Catastrophic Contagion pandemic exercise on October 23, 2022, at the annual Grand Challenges meeting in Brussels, Belgium.

The exceptional group of participants included 10 current and former health ministers and senior public health officials from Senegal, Rwanda, Nigeria, Angola, Liberia, Singapore, India, and Germany, as well as Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The exercise simulated a series of meetings of the WHO Emergency Health Advisory Board, focusing on a fictional pandemic in the near future. Participants grappled with how to respond to an epidemic that spreads in one part of the world and becomes a pandemic with a higher mortality rate than COVID-19, disproportionately affecting children and adolescents.

Participants were challenged to make urgent policy decisions with limited information in the face of uncertainty. Each problem and decision had serious health, economic, and social implications.

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/exercises/2022-catastrophic-contagion/index.html