In the early 2000s, government war game simulators identified the many ways a pandemic could disrupt ordinary life. But the threat of an outbreak never made it to the top of the national security agenda.
"As I looked through it, I was realizing the extent to which it had really identified some of the things that we were living and some of the debates I was seeing on TV," she said.
"People's ability to take time off work or having sick leave would impact their ability to abide by social distancing," McCown said."And that decisions like when you close schools and so forth would come to be important." McCown's flu series was part of a trend in pandemic war gaming that rose in the decade after the Sept. 11 attacks. The exercises had ominous names: Dark Winter, Clade X, Atlantic Storm. AndThe participants in McCown's games grew pessimistic that medical interventions could catch up with the damage caused by the virus. By the end of the series, she said, the teams were"focusing more on what would you do if none of those worked or took a long time to become available.
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