The Event 201: October 2019
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The Event 201 was a high-level pandemic exercise performed on October 18, 2019, in New
York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary
during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and
societal consequences. Event 201 simulated 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 Johns Hopkins Center for Health more transmissible in the community
Security in partnership with the World setting by people with mild symptoms.
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Recommendations are: and fight for stronger
preparedness.
1. Governments, international
6. International organizations should
organizations, and businesses
prioritize reducing economic
should plan now for how essential
impacts of epidemics and
corporate capabilities will be
pandemics.
utilized during a large-scale
7. Governments and the private sector
pandemic.
should assign a greater priority to
2. Industry, national governments, and
developing methods to combat mis-
international organizations should
and disinformation prior to the next
work together to enhance
pandemic response.
internationally held stockpiles of
medical countermeasures to enable
rapid and equitable distribution
Among the selected “players” as they were
during a severe pandemic.
called, was the professor George Fu Gao,
3. Countries, international
who is director of the Chinese Center for
organizations, and global
Disease Control and Prevention since
transportation companies should
2017. His specialization includes research
work together to maintain travel
on influenza virus interspecies
and trade during severe pandemics.
transmission (host jump). He is also
Travel and trade are essential to the
interested in virus ecology, especially the
global economy as well as to
relationship between influenza virus and
national and even local economies,
migratory birds or live poultry markets and
and they should be maintained even
the bat-derived virus ecology and
in the face of a pandemic.
molecular biology.
4. Governments should provide more
Prof. Gao was joined among others at the
resources and support for the
panel by the former Deputy Director of the
development and surge
CIA during the Obama term, Avril
manufacturing of vaccines,
Haines. She also served as Obama’s
therapeutics, and diagnostics that
Assistant to the President and Principal
will be needed during a severe
Deputy National Security Advisor.
pandemic.
5. Global business should recognize
the economic burden of pandemics
2
Another of the players at the Gates event VACCINES
was Rear Admiral Stephen C. Redd,
Inovio Pharmaceuticals of
Director of the Office of Public Health
Pennsylvania received $9 million from
Preparedness and Response at the Centers
the Gates-backed CEPI, Coalition for
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, to
develop a vaccine, INO-4800, which is
Rounding out the group was Adrian
about to test on humans in April.
Thomas, the Vice President of Johnson &
Johnson, the giant medical and
They plan on delivering one million doses
pharmaceutical company. Thomas is
by year-end 2020 with existing resources
responsible for pandemic preparedness at
and capacity. INOVIO Pharmaceuticals,
J&J including developing vaccines for
Inc. announced that it has received a new
Ebola, Dengue Fever, and HIV.
$5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation to accelerate the testing
And there was Martin Knuchel, Head of
and scale-up of CELLECTRA® 3PSP
Crisis, Emergency & Business Continuity
proprietary smart device for the
Management, for Lufthansa Group
intradermal delivery of INO-4800, a
Airlines. Lufthansa has been one of the
DNA vaccine for COVID-19 disease.
major airlines dramatically cutting flights
during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Gates Foundation monies via CEPI are
financing development of a new vaccine
Bill Gates also made a 2019 Netflix video
method known as messenger-RNA.
which made an imaginary scenario.
They are co-funding the Cambridge,
The video, part of the “Explained” series,
Massachusetts biotech company,
imagined a wet market in China where live
Moderna Inc., to develop a vaccine
and dead animals are stacked and a highly
against the Wuhan novel coronavirus, the
deadly virus erupts that spreads globally.
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