The US has run fascinating multi-agency simulations of large-scale bioterrorism under the TOPOFF program.
2000’s exercise was a “no-warning” simulated release of plague at a Denver concert, complete with simulated news coverage, hospital patients, etc. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.109
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The exercise organizers played “DM,” generating simulated news coverage, hospital statistics, public response etc based on responders’ actions. FBI and local health professionals suddenly had to coordinate—which turned out to be hard! (see excerpt)
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This is another good report of that first simulation: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.109
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I think the most recent simulation like this was called “Clade X”. We’ve had several such gov-wide sims since Dark Winter, heping identify gaps in our pandemic responses. The lessons were often clear but decades of work seem to have been dismantled by the current administration.
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