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Apr 2, 2020 · The R0 of the fictional MEV-1 virus was 4, while the R0 of coronavirus is 2.2, according to a recent study of data from the first cases of Covid-19 in Wuhan and investigations conducted by Chinese ...
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Sep 10, 2021 · Soderberg and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns recruited advisors like McNamara and Dr. Ian Lipkin to conceptualize the film's terrifying and fast-acting MEV-1 virus, which wipes out large pockets of ...
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Mar 16, 2020 · MEV-1 is shown to be highly contagious and highly fatal, which in reality is unusual for viruses. In Contagion, the movie's scientists predict that MEV-1 will affect 1 in 12 people with a mortality rate of 25-30% mortality rate. In the real world, coronavirus is easily transmissible, but actually has a comparatively low mortality rate of 3-4%.
Apr 27, 2020 · That, it turns out, is the film’s defining emotion. “Contagion” is a bad-dream biomedical disaster movie whose power is that it refuses, at every moment, to be “science fiction.”. The ...
The movie indeed has some similarities to the current coronavirus outbreak. Like the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease now called COVID-19, the movie virus jumped from animals to people ...
Sep 9, 2011 · With Gwyneth Paltrow, Tien You Chui, Josie Ho, Daria Strokous. Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
Apr 6, 2020 · The movie doesn't skimp on science. Contagion was a film released in 2011 about a fictional pandemic of a virus called MEV-1 which kills between 25 and 30 per cent of those it infected. Here is ...
