Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak is a 2020 American documentary series about pandemics.

It was released on Netflix on January 22, 2020.[1] The series covers various issues relating to pandemics, such as the possibility of an influenza pandemic and research on achieving a universal vaccine, to emerging viruses, anti-vaxxers, and the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Africa.

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 ease a respiratory virus could spread in New York via air travel.