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Things can’t be all that bad if we have all this time for finger pointing.
So? In the world of international travel and emerging pathogens I would expect such drills.
Pandemic flu simulations and training of stakeholder groups has been going on for over a decade.
We would be in worse shape without without it.
The are simulator games on this topic that anyone can buy...
Those types of simulation exercises are run at least once a year. A lot of states, localities run similar mass casualty exercises.
The Wash Examiner thinks that this is a gotcha line.
In emergency management we ALWAYS drilled with a scenario that was 5-10 times worse than we really expected.
Hopefully this is NOT one of those worse-case worst-case events.
Personally I think it will run its course in a reasonable time if everyone relaxes just a bit
While such practice drills are often overdone make work exercises for redundant civil servants , they can occasionally prove quite useful. As , it appears,. This drill may have been
It is my understanding that is absolutely false and is fake news.
By the way, exercises like this are never like the real thing. They are models, and they can help identify some short-comings, but will always lack detail because the only way to get detail is from the real thing. Think chaos theory.
How can this be? I thought Trump cut all funding for the pandemic office.
The media can’t keep their lies straight.
Isn’t that their job? Can’t win with these guys, but I knew that.
Going back to 2004, the Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, the “perfect pandemic” terrified the world and national health agencies. Early scientific estimates from the WHO of mortality went as high as 1 billion people, which was overruled by their political leaders.
Even though almost every nation, including North Korea, was on board to fight it, the effort was horribly disorganized. Only by sheer luck was the “thermonuclear flu” avoided, at least for a time.
Then when the H1N1 influenza became a “killer flu” and hit Ukraine, it again rattled all the medical cages about how incapable we were to deal with it.
Similar concerns came about because of the SARS and MERS and ebola outbreaks.
This is why behind the scenes our public health system has been in overdrive to plan for the next pandemic.
This is not to say they or anyone else schemed to cause such a disaster, but at some point they figured that a natural epidemic would happen, so what better opportunity to have a national and international “dress rehearsal” for the real thing?
Nothing nefarious in it at all, but it is not something that can be done at a smaller scale. The entire nation and world have to come along just to see that we can do it.
War Gaming, so what?
IMPEACH TRUMP! (again) /s
Schools have “active shooter” drills/training does that mean one of schools is planning to have such a real event? No!
Look up Event 201
Johns Hopkins has been having these medical “war game” scenarios since before 911... the last one they did was on a possible corona virus outbreak but in the past they have done similar scenarios for smallpox (Dark Winter) influenza and SARS.
here is a list of them
http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/exercises/
The Dark Winter one was held shortly before 911 was about a smallpox outbreak caused by terrorists. So after 911,when many in the government worried that Saddam would set lose a smallpox attack, they already had plans intact on who to inoculate first and how to set up a clinic etc etc and these were sent to various public health clinics all over the USA.
(I was the doc in our public health clinic tasked to teach the plan, since I had expertise in doing this type of stuff when I was in Africa).
Apparently it was a flawed exercise.
Asian nations have beat the virus. We haven’t.