From this seemingly never-ending news cycle to the results of the Event 201 simulation, it seems like everything having to do with the Coronavirus outbreak is plagued with uncertainty. But there is ...

Event 201 was a real exercise to simulate how those in government, business and public health might respond to a global pandemic. It was not based on Covid-19 and does not mean the organisers had ...

Flagged in Facebook’s efforts to combat the online spread of disinformation, posts show a clip of U.S. rapper and singer Pitbull suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic was planned due to the Event 201 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was not planned. A 2019 simulation of a virus outbreak was part of a preparedness exercise and was not a prediction of future outbreaks. The claim originated in 2020 and has been ...

In October 2019, a group of 15 business people, government officials, and health experts gathered around a table in New York to plan out the global response to a worldwide outbreak of a ...

Event 201 was a high-level pandemic exercise that was hosted October 18, 2019 in New York City by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill ...

One year ago, at the last minute, I decided to attend a presentation held by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at a Manhattan hotel facing Central Park. Epidemiologists, economists, and ...