Countermeasures Season 4 Episode 4: Ebola: Same Virus, New Rules
In the earliest days of the 2014 Ebola Zaire outbreak, I actually wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post and said, wake up world. This virus is different now. It’s gonna spread. And it’s...
Countermeasures Season 4 Episode 3: The Spanish Flu: A Pandemic the World Chose to Forget
There are plenty of official records and they can give you all the information you need on how many people died, how many were infected, though even those statistics are problematic at best....
Countermeasures Season 4 Episode 2: The Anthrax Attacks, 25 Years Later
“It was a mystery. We absolutely had no idea why this gentleman had acquired anthrax” — Dr. Paul Keim...
Countermeasures Season 4 Episode 1: The Third Wave of the Opioid Crisis
“[Fentanyl] was really a game changer. By far, that amplified the drug overdose deaths that we saw from 2015 all the way up through 2020. And then into our peak year of 2022, when we had more...
What to Expect When You Carry NARCAN® Nasal Spray
As naloxone becomes more widely available over the counter, more people are choosing to carry it much like a first‑aid kit or an EpiPen®. And for good reason: opioid overdoses remain a persistent...
Everyone’s Role in Reducing Stigma
Opioid overdose is an indiscriminate killer, affecting parents, students, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and the elderly. In 2024, more than 50,000 people, from all manner of background, died from...