Public health experts say it's too soon to determine if a 2021 exercise simulating a monkeypox outbreak had any impact on the response when the potentially lethal disease struck for real a year later.
In March 2021, The Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonprofit founded by media mogul Ted Turner and former Democrat Sen. Sam Nunn, gathered a panel of 19 experts at the Munich Security Conference to game out responses to a hypothetical deadly outbreak of monkeypox, which was predicted to occur in May 2022.
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Marisa Herman ✉
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