The Trump administration simulated the ability of the United States to handle a flulike pandemic months before the coronavirus turned the scenario into a reality. The Health and Human Services ...

Back in 2001, it was a smallpox outbreak, set off by terrorists in U.S. shopping malls. This fall, it was a SARS-like virus, germinating quietly among pig farms in Brazil before spreading to every ...

In a pre-Covid-19 Operation Outbreak simulation, Caleigh Patterson, a student at Florida’s Sarasota Military Academy Prep, assumes the role of an epidemiologist working to discover what virtual ...

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In late March and early April 2020, social media users revisited a 2018 tweet posted by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Senior Fellow Stephen Schwartz, in which he paraphrased a Washington Post ...