Two hundred are ill in eight states. Canada discovers two victims, Britain another. People with mild fevers jam hospitals. Unvaccinated health workers walk off the job. 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.