text_1: Event 201 “gave out stuffed souvenir coronavirus toys” to “commemorate” Novel coronavirus outbreak
text_2: "The toy at the center of the controversy is supposed to be a coronavirus microbe. Event 201 offered the plushies to people who registered to attend an October 2019 gathering that was designed to help plan for a global pandemic by bringing together business, government, and public health leaders. Event 201 used a fictionalized coronavirus outbreak as its pandemic scenario but did not ""predict"" the outbreak of a strain that would be detected two months later in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Microbe plushies representing a number of diseases are widely available for sale. The Event 201 plushies were not intended to commemorate the toll that the coming outbreak would bring."