Phase Two | WHO Runs Pandemic Simulation ‘Exercise Polaris II’

26 countries, 600 emergency experts, and more than 25 global health agencies and response networks participate in WHO’s expanding multinational outbreak simulation. Jon Fleetwood | modernity.news | jonfleetwood.substack.com Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a 2-day pandemic simulation, convening 26 countries and territories, 600 health emergency experts, and more than 25 international partners. The move represents a major deepening of WHO-directed global p[l]andemic coordination and emergency control systems, further embedding multinational outbreak management, cross-border policy alignment, and centralized health governance structures. According to a WHO press release: The World Health Organization (WHO) wrapped up Exercise Polaris II, a 2-day high-level simulation exercise, based around an outbreak of a fictional new bacterium spreading across the world. Bringing together 26 countries and territories, 600 health emergency experts and over 25 partners, the …