CDC announces there's not enough vaccine for the millions demanding it. Governors ration the shots. Public anger is fueled at press reports that the president, Congress and military were quietly vaccinated. A well-known college basketball player dies of hemorrhagic smallpox, massive bleeding instead of the more typical rash. TV stations get confused and report he died of hemorrhagic fever like Ebola.
Doctors scramble for a correction.
This daylong role-playing is doctors' first chance to learn how complex fighting bioterrorism could be, said Hopkins' Tara O'Toole, who wrote the test case. Cities and states are used to dealing with earthquakes or plane crashes, but a spreading infection is totally different. You're hearing everybody confess they need to do a lot. All U.S. vaccine is gone. The president declares the worst-hit states are disaster areas.