“Catastrophic Contagion” pandemic simulation

On October 23, 2022 the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Health Organization and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation conducted a pandemic simulation in Brussels, Belgium called “Catastrophic Contagion“.

This exercise simulated the fictional enterovirus called Severe Epidemic Enterovirus Respiratory Syndrome (SEERS) that begins in Brazil in 2025 and spreads the globe. The simulation resulted in more than 20 million deaths, of which 15 million were children, and “would have been prevented if countries adopted pandemic operational drills and adhered to the WHO’s pandemic guidances”. [1, 2]