Il dottor Max Goodwin viene nominato direttore del più antico ospedale pubblico americano. Mentre i medici e il personale si dimostrano titubanti, l'uomo punta a restituire l'istituto alle sue vecchie glorie.
La serie presentava i casi di un team d'élite di esperti medici dei National Institutes of Health che indagano su insolite crisi di salute pubblica, come improvvise epidemie di malattie gravi e misteriose. In realtà, i compiti investigativi medici negli Stati Uniti sono normalmente di responsabilità dei Centri per il controllo e la prevenzione delle malattie e dei dipartimenti sanitari locali, mentre il NIH è principalmente un'organizzazione di ricerca e teoria delle malattie.
Based on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women discover that they have been infected with hepatitis C by a contaminated anti-D injection years before. Despite the devastating effects on the women and their families, they unite in a campaign group to take on the health authorities and expose the evasions and lies of the political and bureaucratic establishment.
Public Health is so much more than just washing your hands, adhering to smoking laws, or wearing your seatbelt -- although it is those things too. Broadly, public health is an approach to preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health for everyone. So over the course of this series, we'll show you the many ways the story of your health isn’t just about you, and how it’s about so much other stuff like the social, economic, and environmental conditions that impact all of us.
n 2019, the virologists took center stage, and for the first time on film, their methods, miscues and tragedy they have wrought are put under the spotlight, revealing the extraordinary leaps of fantasy buried in their methodology, the contradictions quietly acknowledged in their papers, their desperate effort to change language to justify their findings, the obvious incongruence of their conclusions and the extraordinary stakes for our entire society in whether we continue to blindly follow their lead into a full-scale war against nature itself.