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-====== Event 201 ======
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-On October 14, 2019, the [[:Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security]] announced on [[:Facebook]] that they would be hosting a [[:pandemic war games|pandemic exercise]] called “[[pandemic war games:Event 201]]”.((Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. (2019, October 14). //Event 201 Facebook Event Announcement.// Facebook. https://archive.org/details/event-201-facebook-event-announcement))
-The in-person and virtual event took place in [[:New York City]] on October 18. 2019. It was organized in partnership with the [[:World Economic Forum]] and the [[:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]]. Participants were primarily leaders in the private and public sector, providing the opportunity to strengthen working relationships between governments, non-governmental organizations, regulatory agencies and corporations.((J. H. C. H. S. website. (2019, November 11). //Event 201, a Pandemic exercise to illustrate preparedness efforts.// https://archive.ph/hIkLN))
-==== Event 201 Call To Action ====
-The next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness and loss of life but could also trigger major
-cascading economic and societal consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering. Efforts to prevent such consequences or respond to them as they unfold will require unprecedented levels of collaboration between governments, international organizations, and the private sector.
-There have been important efforts to engage the private sector in epidemic and outbreak preparedness at the national or regional level. i,ii However, there are major unmet global vulnerabilities and international system challenges posed by pandemics that will require new robust forms of public- private cooperation to address.
-The Event 201 pandemic exercise, conducted on October 18, 2019, vividly demonstrated a number of these important gaps in pandemic preparedness as well as some of the elements of the solutions between the public and private sectors that will be needed to fill them. The [[:Johns Hopkins]] Center for Health Security, [[:World Economic Forum]], and [[:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]] jointly propose the following -
-. Governments, international organizations, and businesses should plan now for how essential corporate capabilities will be utilized during a large-scale pandemic. During a severe pandemic, public sector efforts to control the outbreak are likely to become overwhelmed. But industry assets, if swiftly and appropriately deployed, could help to save lives and reduce economic losses. For instance, companies with operations focused on logistics, social media, or distribution systems will be needed to enable governments’ emergency response, risk communications, and medical countermeasure distribution efforts during a pandemic. This includes working together to ensure that strategic commodities are available and accessible for public health response. Contingency planning for a potential operational partnership between government and business will be complex, with many legal and organizational details to be addressed. Governments should work now to identify the most critical areas of need and reach out to industry players with the goal of finalizing agreements in advance of the next large pandemic.
-The [[:Global Preparedness Monitoring Board]] would be well positioned to help monitorand contribute to the efforts that governments, international organizations and businesses should take for pandemic preparedness and response.
-. Industry, national governments, and international organizations should work together to enhance internationally held stockpiles of medical countermeasures (MCMs) to enable rapid and equitable distribution during a severe pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) currently has an influenza vaccine virtual stockpile, with contracts in place with [[:pharmaceutical companies]] that have agreed to supply vaccines should WHO request them. As one possible approach, this virtual stockpile model could be expanded to augment WHO’s ability to distribute [[:vaccines]] and therapeutics to countries in the greatest need during a severe
-pandemic. This should also include any available experimental vaccine stockpiles for any WHO R&D Blueprint pathogens to deploy in a clinical trial during outbreaks in collaboration with [[:CEPI]], [[:GAVI]], and WHO. Other approaches could involve regional stockpiles or bi- or multinational agreements. During a catastrophic outbreak, countries may be reluctant to part with scarce medical resources. A robust international stockpile could therefore help to ensure that low and middle resource settings receive needed supplies regardless of whether they produce such supplies domestically. Countries with national supplies or domestic manufacturing capabilities should commit to donating some supply/product to this virtual stockpile. Countries should
-support this effort through the provision of additional funding.
-. Countries, international organizations, and global transportation companies should work together to maintain travel and trade during severe pandemics. Travel and trade are essential to the global economy as well as to national and even local economies, and they should be maintained even in the face of a pandemic. Improved decision-making, coordination, and communications between the public and private sectors, relating to risk, travel advisories, import/export restrictions, and border measures will be needed. The fear and uncertainty experienced during past outbreaks, even those limited to a national or regional level, have
-sometimes led to unjustified border measures, the closure of customer-facing businesses, import bans, and the cancellation of airline flights and international shipping. A particularly fast-moving and lethal pandemic could therefore result in political decisions to slow or stop movement of people and goods, potentially harming economies already vulnerable in the face of an outbreak. Ministries of Health and other government agencies should work together now with international airlines and global shipping companies to develop realistic response scenarios and start a contingency planning process with the goal of mitigating economic damage by maintaining key travel and trade routes during a large-scale pandemic. Supporting continued trade and travel in such an extreme circumstance may require the provision of enhanced disease control measures
-and personal protective equipment for transportation workers, government subsidies to support critical trade routes, and potentially liability protection in certain cases. International organizations including WHO, the International Air Transport Association, and the International Civil Aviation Organization should be partners in these preparedness and response efforts.
-((https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/event201-resources/200117-PublicPrivatePandemicCalltoAction.pdf))