Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak
{{short description|2020 American documentary television series}}
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Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak is a 2020 American documentary series about pandemics. It was released on Netflix on January 22, 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2019/12/11/netflix-january-2020-new-grace-and-frankie-sabrina/4386946002/|title=Netflix's January 2020 list: New seasons of 'Grace and Frankie,' 'Sabrina'|website=USA Today|date=December 11, 2019}} The series covers a range of issues such as the possibility of an influenza pandemic, research into achieving a universal vaccine, emerging viruses, anti-vaxxers, and the Ebola outbreak in Africa. It features several notable health and science experts, including Syra Madad, Ron Klain, and Raghu Sharma.{{citation|title=Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt11497904/|access-date=2020-04-11}} It has attracted particular media attention due to being released just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite news|last=Rose|first=Steve|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/12/coronavirus-binge-watching-netflix-streamers-viral|title=Coronavirus: when binge-watching goes viral|date=March 12, 2020|work=The Guardian|access-date=March 20, 2020|language=en-GB}}{{cite news|last=Sindreu|first=Jon|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/people-confined-for-a-pandemic-cant-get-enough-of-pandemics-11584626400|title=People Confined for a Pandemic Can't Get Enough of Pandemics|date=March 19, 2020|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=March 20, 2020|language=en-GB}}
Reception
Brigid Delaney of The Guardian found the "eerily timed" series "informative, inspiring, visually stunning and a great piece of storytelling". She was also "moved to tears multiple times" by the "kindness and dedication of those who work in the field".{{cite news|last=Delaney|first=Brigid|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/05/pandemic-netflixs-new-series-about-global-outbreaks-is-eerily-timed-and-moved-me-to-tears|title=Pandemic: Netflix's new series about global outbreaks is eerily timed, and moved me to tears|date=February 5, 2020|work=The Guardian|access-date=March 20, 2020|language=en-GB}} James Jackson of The Times thought the coronavirus outbreak "gives an extra reason to watch what's a valuable six-parter underpinned by strong storytelling as it follows doctors risking their lives in contagious conditions", giving it four stars out of five.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/the-split-plausible-no-but-it-is-infuriatingly-watchable-bftpsm6cd|title=The Split – plausible? No, but it is infuriatingly watchable|first=James|last=Jackson|date=12 February 2020|work=The Times}} Brad Newsome of The Sydney Morning Herald found the series compelling initially when it covers how doctors and public health officials deal with the seasonal flu, but less so "as the series broadens its focus" and "begins to slow".{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/meet-those-already-working-to-protect-us-from-an-influenza-pandemic-20200312-p549ic.html|title=Meet those already working to protect us from an influenza pandemic|date=18 March 2020|first=Brad|last=Newsome|work=The Sydney Morning Herald}}
Episodes
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| EpisodeNumber = 1
| Title = It Hunts Us
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|2020|1|22}}
| ShortSummary = In this introduction to life on the front lines, doctors in the U.S. and Asia battle the flu, and researchers race to develop a universal vaccine.
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| EpisodeNumber = 2
| Title = Pandemic Is Now
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|2020|1|22}}
| ShortSummary = Vaccine debates rage while health-care workers inoculate against the Ebola virus in Congo and influenza in detainee camps at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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| EpisodeNumber = 3
| Title = Seek, Don't Hide
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|2020|1|22}}
| ShortSummary = Worldwide, scientists test animals and their handlers for emerging viruses. In the U.S. and India, doctors work long hours caring for flu patients.
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| EpisodeNumber = 4
| Title = Hold On to Your Roots
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|2020|1|22}}
| ShortSummary = Anti-vaccine debate escalates, and medical staff are attacked in Congo. Funding cuts hit hard in the U.S., but researchers in Guatemala make strides.
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| EpisodeNumber = 5
| Title = Prayers Might Work
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|2020|1|22}}
| ShortSummary = Around the world, community, family and faith help physicians and medical advocates stay strong in the face of long hours and a relentless disease.
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| EpisodeNumber = 6
| Title = Don't Stop Now
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|2020|1|22}}
| ShortSummary = Successes for some balance setbacks for others. Meanwhile, viral outbreaks continue to claim lives across the globe — and a larger pandemic looms.
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==References==
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External links
- {{IMDb title|tt11497904}}
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- [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/pandemic_how_to_prevent_an_outbreak/s01 Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak] on Rotten Tomatoes
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