Away from the Covid spotlight, there is a viable theory that governments around the world had knowledge about the risks of a coronavirus type pandemic long before the virus struck western society. Additionally, there are myriad studies which predicted the shortcomings in health care systems, resulting in a hampering of an their ability to fight the pandemic. According to reports, many countries failed to act on this knowledge. At the time the Pandemic began to break wide open, the New York Times reported on a phenomenon called “Crimson Contagion”— a simulation conducted by the US Department of Health and Human Services last year in Washington.