Season 1
Synopsis
Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak (2020), Season 1 — a six-episode Netflix documentary series you can watch online on iFILM. No dramatisation: it follows real doctors, field researchers, and health workers across the US, Asia, Congo, and India as they fight influenza and Ebola outbreaks in real time.
Each episode covers a different pressure point — the race to build a universal flu vaccine, anti-vaccine politics in American communities, medical workers attacked in the Congo, funding cuts gutting public health programs in the US, and quiet breakthroughs made by researchers in Guatemala. The series premiered in January 2020, weeks before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, which gave it a documentary weight its makers could not have anticipated. Stream Pandemic Season 1 all episodes online on iFILM.
6 episodes
S1·E1It Hunts Us
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.
S1·E2Pandemic Is Now
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.
S1·E3Seek, Don't Hide
Worldwide, scientists test animals and their handlers for emerging viruses. In the U.S. and India, doctors work long hours caring for flu patients.
S1·E4Hold On to Your Roots
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.
S1·E5Prayers Might Work
Around the world, community, family and faith help physicians and medical advocates stay strong in the face of long hours and a relentless disease.
S1·E6Don't Stop Now
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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