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 ...

Participants in the BYU Operation Outbreak simulation show their phones open to the Operation Outbreak app. The results of the simulation hosted between Feb. 19 and March 1, 2021 were presented in a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A pandemic simulation by Colorado’s public health department in 2017 revealed challenges in communication among state authorities, local officials and the ...

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, we relied most on several mitigation measures to slow the spread of the virus and keep us safe, such as masking and social distancing to slow the spread of the virus.

It began, as outbreaks do, with a spark. Three infections, of which two patients soon began showing symptoms. But by the time the coughing and fevers arrived, it was already too late. The virus had ...

The advanced biology class at the Utah County Academy of Sciences faced a grim assignment. Seated at folding tables and speaking through face masks, students at the STEM-focused charter high school in ...

Multiple claims on social media say world leaders met for a pandemic simulation right before the first new coronavirus cases were reported. Is this a coincidence or something more? Back in October, a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 2018, a deadly outbreak was underway at Sarasota Military Academy ...

They’ve got to be monkeying around. An eerily accurate simulation exercise at the Munich Security Conference in March 2021 centered on a monkeypox outbreak – and had the rare and potentially deadly ...

A deadly disease caused paralysis in decision-making at the top and misinformation to spread on social media—in a simulated epidemic from September 2019 that provides hard lessons for today. Benjamin ...

FOR years, scientists have warned that bird flu could one day spill over from birds to humans, triggering a global health ...