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Celerity

(43,328 posts)
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 06:14 AM Mar 2020

Event 201 (Oct 18, 2019) 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.


Trumps is fucking LYING piece of dogshit when he says no one could have imagined anything like this occurring.



http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/scenario.html




Event 201 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. The pathogen and the disease it causes are modeled largely on SARS, but it is more transmissible in the community setting by people with mild symptoms.

The disease starts in pig farms in Brazil, quietly and slowly at first, but then it starts to spread more rapidly in healthcare settings. When it starts to spread efficiently from person to person in the low-income, densely packed neighborhoods of some of the megacities in South America, the epidemic explodes. It is first exported by air travel to Portugal, the United States, and China and then to many other countries. Although at first some countries are able to control it, it continues to spread and be reintroduced, and eventually no country can maintain control.

There is no possibility of a vaccine being available in the first year. There is a fictional antiviral drug that can help the sick but not significantly limit spread of the disease. Since the whole human population is susceptible, during the initial months of the pandemic, the cumulative number of cases increases exponentially, doubling every week. And as the cases and deaths accumulate, the economic and societal consequences become increasingly severe.

The scenario ends at the 18-month point, with 65 million deaths. The pandemic is beginning to slow due to the decreasing number of susceptible people. The pandemic will continue at some rate until there is an effective vaccine or until 80-90 % of the global population has been exposed. From that point on, it is likely to be an endemic childhood disease.

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http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/videos.html

Highlights Reel





Videos of Event 201














Public-private cooperation for pandemic preparedness and response

A call to action


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Event 201 (Oct 18, 2019) simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats (Original Post) Celerity Mar 2020 OP
The preppers are all over event 201. dewsgirl Mar 2020 #1
tinfoils gonna tinfoil Celerity Mar 2020 #2
Or watch MFM008 Mar 2020 #3

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
1. The preppers are all over event 201.
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 07:01 AM
Mar 2020

They think this is a biowarfare event that was kicked off with the video.

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