Crimson Contagion

Crimson Contagion was a series of multi-format pandemic preparedness exercises conducted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under US President Donald Trump.¹⁾

The series of exercises was created in response to “the need for the nation to better prepare for incidents in which DHS/FEMA is not the lead federal agency.” It included two tabletop exercises, a seminar, and a functional exercise to examine issues related to response structures, information exchange, coordination of resources, and policy decisions.

Exercise series:

• Internal HHS Pandemic Influenza Tabletop Exercise (TTX)
  • January 23 – 24, 2019
  • Internal HHS staff
• Chicago and Illinois Pandemic Influenza TTX
  • April 10, 2019
  • Chicago / Illinois / Region V focused
• Federal Interagency Seminar
  • May 14 – 15, 2019
  • NSC, federal interagency partners, and participating states
• Crimson Contagion 2019 Functional Exercise (FE) – Completed
  • August 13 – 16, 2019
  • Local, state, federal, private-sector, and non-governmental organization participation

• Chicago Department of Public Health
• United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

• White Rose Wiki

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