“Catastrophic Contagion” – another pandemic simulation/tabletop exercise (held on Oct 23, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium) about a global infectious disease outbreak in 2025 | Brought to you by the merchants of doom: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, WHO and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Hmm.. SEERS (Severe Epidemic Enterovirus Respiratory Syndrome 2025)… a respiratory virus that also causes paralysis or brain damage.
Some curious things, clues? Please watch the short video for context.
Seer
1: one that sees
2a: one that predicts events or developments
b: a person credited with extraordinary moral and spiritual insight
3: one that practices divination especially by concentrating on a glass or crystal globe
Jeanne Meserve (self-serving, definition: serving one’s own interests often in disregard of the truth or the interests of others)
Note: dictionary meanings/definitions from Merriam-Webster
Summary:
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with WHO and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, conducted Catastrophic Contagion, a pandemic tabletop exercise at the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on October 23, 2022.
The extraordinary group of participants consisted of 10 current and former Health Ministers and senior public health officials from Senegal, Rwanda, Nigeria, Angola, Liberia, Singapore, India, Germany, as well as Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The exercise simulated a series of WHO emergency health advisory board meetings addressing a fictional pandemic set in the near future. Participants grappled with how to respond to an epidemic located in one part of the world that then spread rapidly, becoming a pandemic with a higher fatality rate than COVID-19 and disproportionately affecting children and young people.
Participants were challenged to make urgent policy decisions with limited information in the face of uncertainty. Each problem and choice had serious health, economic, and social ramifications.
Unlisted video:
~ 3 min
Content Source: Center for Health Security
Links:
website: https://catastrophiccontagion.centerforhealthsecurity.org/
Participants: https://catastrophiccontagion.centerforhealthsecurity.org/participants-0
Lessons from the exercise: https://catastrophiccontagion.centerforhealthsecurity.org/lessons-from-the-exercise-0
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https://catastrophiccontagion.centerforhealthsecurity.org/videos-1
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