U.S. NAVAL WAR COLLEGE WAR-GAMED A PANDEMIC: It was last year and involved 50 experts responding in ways that were eerily like what has been happening in the real-world in 2020, according to military.com.

“Called Urban Outbreak 2019, the war game involved 50 experts who spent two days coordinating response, containment and messaging efforts around the notional pandemic. Some of the conclusions, such as the way forced mass quarantine can backfire and trigger additional disease spread, and how the mortality rate is better than the overall number of disease cases in assessing the scale of an outbreak — have been proved out through the response to the novel coronavirus.”