Event 201: Coronavirus Pandemic Simulation Event
Author: Tracey Young. (March 22, 2021). Event
201: Coronavirus Pandemic Simulation Event - October 2019. C4D Canadians 4 Democracy.
Retrieved from: https://c4d-canadians4democracy.blogspot.com/2021/03/event-201-coronavirus-pandemic.html.
Date held: October 18, 2019; 8:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: The Pierre hotel, New York, NYAbout
Event 201 was a 3.5-hour pandemic tabletop exercise that simulated a series of dramatic, scenario-based facilitated discussions, confronting difficult, true-to-life dilemmas associated with response to a hypothetical, but scientifically plausible, pandemic. 15 global business, government, and public health leaders were players in the simulation exercise that highlighted unresolved real-world policy and economic issues that could be solved with sufficient political will, financial investment, and attention now and in the future.
The exercise consisted of pre-recorded news broadcasts, live “staff” briefings, and moderated discussions on specific topics. These issues were carefully designed in a compelling narrative that educated the participants and the audience.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation jointly propose these recommendations.
Scenario: Details about the scenario are available here.
Purpose
In recent years, the world has seen a growing number of epidemic events, amounting to approximately 200 events annually. These events are increasing, and they are disruptive to health, economies, and society. Managing these events already strains global capacity, even absent a pandemic threat. Experts agree that it is only a matter of time before one of these epidemics becomes global—a pandemic with potentially catastrophic consequences. A severe pandemic, which becomes “Event 201,” would require reliable cooperation among several industries, national governments, and key international institutions.
RecommendationsThe next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness and loss of life but could also trigger major cascading economic and societal consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering. The Event 201 pandemic exercise, conducted on October 18, 2019, vividly demonstrated a number of these important gaps in pandemic preparedness as well as some of the elements of the solutions between the public and private sectors that will be needed to fill them. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation jointly propose these recommendations.
Recommendations: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/recommendations.html
Videos from Event 201
All videos: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/videos.html
Details: These five segments include discussions among high-level leaders of global businesses, governments, policy and public health. (Length ~3 hours)
Select video segments:
Event 201 Pandemic Exercise: Highlights Reel
Center for Health Security. (Nov. 4, 2019). Youtube. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoLw-Q8X174.Center for Health Security. (Nov. 4, 2019). Youtube. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-_FAjNSd58.
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