https://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-ny-slippery-slope-bugs-bioagent-exercise-2005.pdf

Worth digging into, this document from 2005 details a joint effort to SIMULATE A SARS OUTBREAK IN NEW YORK HOSPITALS

Document is 15 years old

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Slippery Slope is a major full

-scale, field, Bioagent exercise conducted in

four rotations that will exercise four CBPPs and the hospitals that make up

those networks. Funded by Health Resources and Serv

ices Administration

(HRSA) throu

gh the New York City Department of Health and Mental

Hygiene (DOHMH)

for the purpose of furthering the preparation of New

York City hospitals to respond to an outbreak of an infectious disease, four

CBPPs will be respond to different time period

s of a major bioagent event.

DOHMH has chosen Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) as the

bioagent. The exercise will be conducted in four rotations with the first

rotation occurring in January (initial recognition of the event). Through

cooperative

planning and exercising, the City of New York hospitals and

DOHMH will be better able to respond to a major public health emergency

event. This exercise will allow other organizations to work with the health

and medical community in responding to a biote

rrorism event.