by Darragh C. O’Carroll M.D. — Board Certified Emergency Physician, CNN on-air contributor, and consultant to the NETFLIX Docuseries ‘Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak’
*The Data from The Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands was redacted on 11/30/2020, it is continually evolving and was requested to only be presented in their own Publications*
This paper has been peer reviewed and endorsed by
- Paul S.Pottinger M.D. — Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, University of Washington
- Michael W. Schwartz M.D. — Robert H. Williams Endowed Chair, Professor of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, University of Washington
- Karl Kaiyala PhD — Research associate professor (emeritus), Department of Oral Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Washington
- Lee Altenberg PhD — Adj Full Professor of Information and Computer Sciences and Mathematics, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Member of HiPAM
- D. Kapono Chong-Hanssen M.D. — Medical Director; Ho`ola Lahui Hawai`i/Kaua`i Community Health Center
- David Derauf M.D. MPH — Physician and Director…
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Darragh O’Carroll M.D. is an emergency physician in Honolulu, Hawaii, and served as a medical consultant for Netflix’s recent medical documentary series “Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak.”
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Darragh O'Carroll M.D.
Emergency Medicine and Disaster Response physician, specializing in distilling complex medical topics to media digestible by all non-medical persons.
