What is Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak about?
In this docuseries, meet the heroes on the front lines of the battle against influenza and learn about their efforts to stop the next global outbreak.
Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak (2020)
Earnest heroes on the front lines race to prevent a gritty, suspenseful global outbreak.
A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy. Based on true events.
Streaming on Netflix and Paramount+.
Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak parents guide
There is no US rating to lean on. What we tagged stays mild: no real violence and no gore.
- Scare
- Mildly scary
- A few tense or eerie moments.
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- None flagged
- It has no US rating to check against, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.
- Language
- None flagged
- It has no US rating to check against, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.
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Three questions
- Is Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak scary?
- Only a little. Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
- How gory is Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak?
- No gore and no real violence. Squeamish viewers are fine here.
Cast and crew
StarringSyra Madad
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