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 ...

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A virus was coming. Stockpiled vaccines didn't match the strain, a novel influenza that originated in China. Tourists became ill with a respiratory illness, then departed back to their home countries ...

Often, it is the job of people in the federal government to play games. The Pentagon's tabletop war games are legendary, particularly in the early days of the Cold War when generals simulated hundreds ...

The outbreak started in January 2019. A 57-year-old man returned home to Chicago from a tour of China. Somewhere along the way, his groupincluding travelers from Australia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Thailand, ...

Dr. Allison Arwady, left, the commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, and Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, discuss the state’s seventh ...

Hurricane Pam was an exercise that was held in the summer of 2004 almost exactly one year before Hurricane Katrina hit the United States. The focus of the Hurricane Pam Exercise was on the state of ...

President Trump insisted Thursday that his administration was prepared for the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, but he also said: "Nobody knew there would be a pandemic or epidemic of this proportion.

A severe unknown flu virus is sweeping the world, nearly 14,000 have already died, the World Health Organization has declared a pandemic and while U.S. officials know the virus is here, they have no ...