Reminder: Remdesivir was written into the SPARS Pandemic Planning Exercise script

As the SPARS Pandemic Exercise was being written, the referenced ANTIVIRAL was being created at UNC. That antiviral was Remdesivir and it was sold in 2020 straight out of the 2017 SPARS script.

Background: SPARS and Event 201

From 2014 to 2016, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security conducted a planning exercise.

It involved preparing for a NOVEL CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC.

…where scientists confirmed that the patients did not have influenza. One CDC scientist recalled reading a recent ProMed dispatch describing the emergence of a novel coronavir…