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This is Scientific American 60 Second Science.

I'm Maddie Bender.

In central Texas, in the back of a blacked-out government bus, three health workers stood over coughing patients.

They had 10 minutes to put on personal protective equipment and perform nasal swabs on the infected.

So just right here, sir, you're going to go back down and kind of twirl us around.

I'm so sorry.

Okay.

And then we're going to do one on the other side and that'll be it.

All right, you did good.

This sadly might sound like a voice we've heard over the last year as we've received a nasal swab for COVID-19.

Talk to us a little bit about how you were feeling throughout this entire scenario with these patients who are coughing, and we don't know what this virus is.

Very nervous. I was scared because I didn't know, you know, exactly what to do.

The thing is, none of this was real. The patients were mannequins and this was done in 2019.

But it sure turned out to be prescient. And more importantly, according to new research,

it helped a health care system prepare for when an actual deadly

pandemic arrived in the U.S. in 2020, all because of escape rooms and zombies.

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