When was Event 201 held?

“a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY.”

Who hosted Event 201?

“The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201….”

What was the purpose?

“A severe pandemic, which becomes “Event 201,” would require reliable cooperation among several industries, national governments, and key international institutions.”

What does Johns Hopkins say about the coincidence between the modeled coronavirus pandemic and the covid pandemic?

“For the scenario, we modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly stated that it was not a prediction. Instead, the exercise served to highlight preparedness and response challenges that would likely arise in a very severe pandemic. We are not now predicting that the nCoV-2019 outbreak will kill 65 million people. Although our tabletop exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we…