“Event 201 was a 3.5-hour pandemic tabletop exercise [created by The John Hopkins Center for Health Security, in 2019] that simulated a series of dramatic, scenario-based facilitated discussions, confronting difficult, true-to-life dilemmas associated with response to a hypothetical, but scientifically plausible, pandemic. Fifteen global business, government, and public health leaders were players in the simulation exercise that highlighted unresolved real-world policy and economic issues that could be solved with sufficient political will, financial investment, and attention “now and in the future” (The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security). The following quotes are from the transcript:

“”People believe, “‘This is a manmade… some pharmaceutical company made the virus’,” so there’s some violations of human… That is because of this misinformation” (George Gao).

“And then another issue, I suppose, is just through that, if you have a trusted source, I believe in the idea that we shouldn’t be trying to control communication, but rather flood the zone in a sense with a trusted source, that then is drawing influential community leaders, as well as health workers, as Brad noted and others, on these issues in order to try to amplify the message that’s coming through” (Avril Haines).