How a forgotten simulation exercise kickstarted Johns Hopkins role in the pandemic

Hazel Tang
3 min readJan 29, 2021

Johns Hopkins became synonymous with their dashboard that tracked the global spread of the coronavirus. But few remember their pandemic simulation exercise just two months before the outbreak.

On October 18th 2019, a simulation exercise involving 15 policymakers, health officials, and business leaders took place at The…

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Hazel Tang

Writer @RiceMedia. Beating up info till they scream stories. Words with MetroUK, gal-dem, Potluck Zine, Towards Data Science, among others. Data Enthusiast