Atlantic Storm
Pandemic Scenario - Atlantic Storm
Scenarios have been regularly used, like a 'war game' to simulate a global event such as a pandemic, which would assist governments and organisations to identify requirements for resources, communications, medical supplies, personnel and facilities so that if such an event did occur the response could be better managed.
Scenarios like Atlantic Storm are not planning in the sense of a plan to unleash a disease but rather to assist planning for a naturally occurring disease outbreak.
Atlantic Storm (2005)
Atlantic Storm was a ministerial table-top exercise convened on January 14, 2005 by the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the Center for Transatlantic Relations of the Johns Hopkins University, and the Transatlantic Biosecurity Network. The exercise used a fictitious scenario designed to mimic a summit of transatlantic leaders forced to respond to a bioterrorist attack. These transatlantic leaders were played by current and former officials from each country or organization represented at the table. There was an audience of observers from governments on both sides of the Atlantic as well as from the private sector, but the venue was designed to focus all attention on the summit principals and their discussions around the table .
Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Atlantic StormSource
Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Events Archive, Atlantic Storm https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events-archive/2005_atlantic_storm/