"Красная зараза"
С января по август 2019 года Министерство здравоохранения США проводило учения под названием "Crimson Contagion", которые симулировали следующий сценарий: в Китае начинается вспышка острого респираторного вируса, который быстро разносят по всему миру путешественники.
Черновой вариант отчета о результатах этих учений с пометкой «для служебного пользования» был опубликован в NYT в марте 2020 г...
By David E. Sanger, Eric Lipton, Eileen Sullivan and Michael Crowley
WASHINGTON - The outbreak of the respiratory virus began in China and was quickly spread around the world by air travelers, who ran high fevers. In the United States, it was first detected in Chicago, and 47 days later, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. By then it was too late: 110 million Americans were expected to become ill, leading to 7.7 million hospitalized and 586,000 dead.
That scenario, code-named “Crimson Contagion” and imagining an influenza pandemic, was simulated by the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services in a series of exercises that ran from last January to August.
The simulation’s sobering results - contained in a draft report dated October 2019 that has not previously been reported ...