A leading medical institution created a simulation that shows how a new diseas e could kill 900 million people ? and it reveals how unprepared we are Kevi n Loria Jul 29, 2018, 9:00 PM
・The Clade X simulation, created by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Secur ity, shows how vulnerable the world is to the spread of a pandemic virus. ・In that simulation, political experts from the US tried to figure out how to respond to the emergence of a new and deadly disease. ・Despite being a "moderately contagious" and "moderately lethal" virus, at th e end of the day ? 20 months in simulated time ? the virus would have killed 150 million people. ・According to the scenario's creator, if efforts to create a vaccine continue d to fail, a disease like that could kill 900 million, or more than 10% of the global population.