SEERS 2025

The Bill Gates Foundation, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the World Health Organization (WHO), ran a simulation called “Catastrophic Contagion,” imagining a deadly pandemic in 2025. This time, the outbreak, caused by an enterovirus called “SEERS,” would have a higher fatality rate than COVID-19 and would disproportionately affect children. The group looked at lessons from the COVID-19 crisis, discussing topics such as social control, propaganda, and the controversial closure of churches.