Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001040/2025/rev.1
to the Commission
Rule 144
Gerald Hauser (PfE)
In the official answer to my parliamentary question (11265/J), Austria’s Minister of the Interior, Gerhard Karner (ÖVP), stated that four pandemic simulation and preparation exercises had been run in the USA this millennium (Atlantic Storm, CLADE X, Event 201 and Spars Pandemic 2025-2028)[1]. In October 2019, in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security simulated a pandemic with a SARS-related coronavirus (Event 201). Moderna’s CEO, Stéphane Bancel, publicly stated that he informed his staff in 2019 that a pandemic would occur in 2020 and that Moderna would have to produce billions of doses of vaccines[2].
- 1.As of when did the Commission and its agencies (in particular the EMA and the ECDC) know that a pandemic would occur in 2020?
- 2.Did the Commission and its agencies participate in the above-mentioned simulation exercises or any other such exercises?
- 3.In what form (human, financial, material, ideological, etc.) did the Commission provide support for simulation exercises to prepare for a pandemic?
Submitted: 11.3.2025