The study recommends those interested to ask the authorities if they have doubts about the virus plague.
Plague Inc. is a virtual pandemic simulator, but not a scientific reference book. This is what the videogame developers wanted to remember, which once multiplied its sales after the Ebola crisis. With the coronavirus as the protagonist of the headlines and the television news, Ndemic Creations has come to the fore and made clear the obvious, that your video game should not be taken as a source of information.
As reported in a statement published on its website, many have been those who have sent questions regarding the virus, whose main cases are concentrated in China. "China's coronavirus outbreak is deeply worrying and we are receiving a lot of questions from players and the media," they say.
In the end, it is a video game
Plague Inc., which has been in the market for eight years, "increases the number of players" each time a pandemic expands, as the study acknowledges. This is because people want to know more about diseases and understand the complexity of viral pandemics. "We develop the video game specifically to be realistic and informative, without sensationalizing serious problems in the real world," they continue. “However, remember that Plague Inc. is a video game, not a scientific model. The coronavirus outbreak is a very real situation that is impacting a good number of individuals. ”
Given this situation, they recommend that players collect information directly from the relevant health agencies, even though the title has been recognized by the CDC and other health institutions.
Although there have been three cases of coronavirus in France, Spain has ruled out that the plague has reached the peninsula. According to our colleagues from El País, a patient of Chinese nationality arrived at the hospital with the suspicion that he could have contracted the disease. After activating the isolation protocol in Granada, he was subjected to the relevant tests. The results ruled out that possibility, as also happened in the possible case detected in the Basque Country.
