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Why ‘Designated Survivor’ Chose a Pandemic Storyline for Season 3

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Neal Baer is among the few people in the world who can list “licensed physician” and “experienced showrunner” on his resume.

With that background, it’s telling that Baer’s most recent TV effort — steering the third season of Kiefer Sutherland drama “Designated Survivor” — revolved around the theme of a pandemic breaking out in the U.S.

The extraordinary global response to the coronavirus threat has appeared to lift viewership and social media traffic on the Entertainment One series, which premiered its third (and final) season on Netflix in June 2019, after two seasons on ABC.

Baer, who previously worked on “ER” and was showrunner/executive producer of “Law & Order: SVU” and “Under the Dome,”  knew that the threat of a bio-terror attack

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