Netflix, an online video streaming service has released a new six-episode docuseries titled “Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak,” just in time for the rapidly spreading Coronavirus.
The summary of the series on Netflix reads;
In Pandemic viewers meet the heroes on the front lines of the battle against influenza and learn about their efforts to stop the next global outbreak.
Pandemic creates urgency for the need to prepare against epidemics by following several viruses and diseases around the globe and what’s being done to battle them — as scientists fight underfunding in research and health care, anti-vaxxers, misinformation and political red-tape, including unvaccinated migrants at the U.S. border.
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Emerging Threats Unit director, Dr. Dennis Carroll, explained that;
In the show that people should be most scared of influenza and respiratory viruses — claiming that alarmists are more concerned with Ebola, which only infected 28,600 people worldwide, than H1NI, which has killed 151,700 to 575,400 people worldwide, according to the CDC.
Dr. Syra Madad, the senior director of New York City Health & Hospitals’ Special Pathogens Program, which helps develop public health strategy to ready the Big Apple for major diseases, also makes appearances in the show.
In the show, Madad describes the extreme case of how a respiratory virus could spread in New York through air travel as it takes one host to lead to a pandemic.
Check out the new @netflix docuseries trailer “Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak” releasing 1/24/2020 on Netflix. It was a privilege being part of this international series and highlighting the important topic of pandemic preparedness 😷 https://t.co/jZkFOynVZ7 pic.twitter.com/z02Mxf3UxL
— ☣️ Dr. Syra Madad (@syramadad) January 12, 2020
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The episode titles serves as a guide for viewers on how to handle an outbreak, with titles like – “Pandemic Is Now,” “Seek Don’t Hide,” “Prayers Might Work” and “Don’t Stop Now.”
The show is produced by Zero Point Zero Productions, best known for making various docuseries for Anthony Bourdain and other Netflix hit docuseries like “Broken” and “Rotten.”
