https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2017/spars-pandemic-scenario.pdf

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The next big pandemic plans brought to you by John Hopkins…. Thought SARS and Covid were bad? Well get ready for SPARS!!!! Bigger, scarier, deadlier… starts in 2025!

In mid-October 2025, three deaths were reported among members of the First Baptist Church of St.

Paul, Minnesota. Two of the church members had recently returned from a missionary trip to the

Philippines, where they provided relief to victims of regional floods. The third was the mother of a

church member who had also traveled to the Philippines with the church group but who had been only

mildly sick himself. Based on the patients’ reported symptoms, healthcare providers initially guessed

that they had died from seasonal influenza, which health officials predicted would be particularly

virulent and widespread that fall. However, laboratory tests were negative for influenza. Unable to

identify the causative agent, officials at the Minnesota Department of Health’s Public Health Labora-

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tory sent the patients’ clinical specimens to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),

where scientists confirmed that the patients did not have influenza. One CDC scientist recalled reading

a recent ProMed dispatch describing the emergence of a novel coronavirus in Southeast Asia, and ran a

pancoronavirus RT-PCR test. A week later, the CDC team confirmed that the three patients were, in

fact, infected with a novel coronavirus, which was dubbed the St. Paul Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Coronavirus (SPARS-CoV, or SPARS), after the city where the first cluster of cases had been

identified.