A 2019 preparedness exercise that involved philanthropist Bill Gates, public health leaders and a fictional coronavirus outbreak came just a few months before a real coronavirus pandemic, which sparked baseless claims that Gates and other global elites had planned COVID-19.
Now a similar preparedness exercise from October has prompted false claims that Gates and others are at it again, this time planning a far deadlier virus.
A May 5 Instagram post shows side-by-side video clips — one of a podcast host talking about Gates, the Microsoft Corp. co-founder, and his involvement in a 2022 pandemic simulation, and another of a man reacting to what he’s hearing.
The simulation — called Catastrophic Contagion: A Global Challenge Exercise — was held Oct. 23, 2022, by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with the World Health Organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in Brussels, Belgium.
The event included videos of fictional newscasts on which broadcasters discussed a 2025 outbreak of a deadly virus.
"This is the video that Bill Gates put together, along with the team, complete with simulated news reports like this. This is really what they’re preparing for us," Clayton Morris, host of the "Redacted" podcast, said in a Dec. 13, 2022, episode of the podcast that was excerpted in the Instagram video.
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