{"id":101465,"date":"2020-01-27T17:42:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T01:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/in-a-recent-simulation-a-coronavirus-killed-65-million-people"},"modified":"2020-01-27T17:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T01:42:37","slug":"in-a-recent-simulation-a-coronavirus-killed-65-million-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/in-a-recent-simulation-a-coronavirus-killed-65-million-people","title":{"rendered":"In a Recent Simulation, a Coronavirus Killed 65 Million People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-recent-simulation-a-coronavirus-killed-65-million-people.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three and a half hours later, the group finished the simulation exercise \u2014 and despite their best efforts, they couldn\u2019t prevent the hypothetical coronavirus from killing 65 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The fictional coronavirus at the center of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/event201\/scenario.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Event 201 simulation<\/a> \u2014 a collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation \u2014 was called CAPS, and it started with pigs in Brazil before spreading to farmers, not unlike how 2019-nCoV reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/01\/27\/coronavirus-origin-traced-to-animal-market-in-wuhan-tests-confirm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">began with animals<\/a> before spreading to people.<\/p>\n<p>In the simulation, CAPS infected people all across the globe within six months, and by the 18-month mark, it had killed 65 million people and triggered a global financial crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three and a half hours later, the group finished the simulation exercise \u2014 and despite their best efforts, they couldn\u2019t prevent the hypothetical coronavirus from killing 65 million people. The fictional coronavirus at the center of the Event 201 simulation \u2014 a collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}