A 2019 Hopkins exercise explored effects of a coronavirus pandemic. It’s falsely been linked to conspiracy theories.

Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security, moderated the exercise, and guided “players” through a series of escalating conditions. First, he challenged participants to envision how businesses and governments should collaborate to mitigate the emergency. Then, he posed that an antiviral treatment had been developed and vetted, and asked how drugs and other medical supplies should be allocated.

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