The COVID-19 pandemic was not planned. A 2019 simulation of a virus outbreak was part of a preparedness exercise and was not a prediction of future outbreaks. The claim originated in 2020 and has been ...

Catastrophic Contagion was a tabletop exercise held October 2022 in Belgium that centered on a fictional, rapidly spreading, deadly virus. The exercise’s goal was preparing government and public ...

In October 2019, just a few months before a novel coronavirus sparked a deadly pandemic, a group of government officials, business leaders, and academics convened in New York City to role-play a ...

Baseless claims that pandemic preparedness exercises are proof that disease outbreaks are “planned” by authorities have been a recurring narrative since the coronavirus pandemic broke out. Experts ...

The internet is once again ablaze with explosive claims linking Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates and the origins of COVID after viral posts highlighted pandemic bonds, old financial messages and pre ...