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Sep 9, 2011 · Contagion: Directed by Steven Soderbergh. 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.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Steven Soderbergh
- 2011-09-09
- Right: Asian Origin
- Wrong: Extremely Deadly
- Right: Animal Origins
- Wrong: The Young Are The First to Die
- Right: Transmitted by Touch
- Right: False Prophets
- Right: Vaccine Development
First, the coronavirus originated in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, China. In Contagion, the virus that is eventually labelled MEV-1 stems from contact between Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) and a local chef in Hong Kong. According to the South China Morning Post, this strain of Coronavirus could have originated in Wuhan as early as November 201...
Hollywood movies are full of extremely deadly viruses, and Contagion is no exception. Beth Emhoff is among the first to die; a mere 48 hours after contracting the virus she succumbs to seizures in a hospital. MEV-1 is shown to be highly contagious and highly fatal, which in reality is unusual for viruses. In Contagion, the movie's scientists predic...
In Contagion, Dr. Ally Hextall (Jennifer Ehle) says, "Somewhere in the world, the wrong pig met up with the wrong bat." She describes the viral sequencing of the MEV-1, finding evidence of both pig and bat sequences, which prove that the virus had animal origins. A similar description could apply to COVID-19. Coronaviruses generally are common in b...
In Contagion, the first people to be severely affected by the virus - and ultimately die - are Beth Emhoff, a young Eastern European model, and a server in a Hong Kong casino who appears to be in his early 20s. In reality, this has not been the case, as younger people have a greater chance of experiencing this coronavirus as more of a seasonal flu....
In a series of frustratingly frightening scenes, people infected by the virus in Contagion are shown to be relentlessly touching things, the camera hovering on the spot where their grimy, sweaty fingers were, leaving traces of MEV-1 for the next hapless person to accidentally touch. Even the initial transmission of the virus, revealed at the end of...
Every movie needs a villain, and Contagion is no different; paranoid blogger Alan Kumweide (Jude Law) seeks to misinform the general public, falsifying symptoms of MEV-1 and a subsequent snake oil remedy in the form of Forsythia. His readership jumps to over 10 million unique visitors, as well as a substantial payday from the company producing Fors...
At the end of Contagion, as the virus continues to spread, the CDC's Dr. Hextall tests the vaccine for MEV-1 on herself, reminiscent of Jonas Salk's experiments with the polio vaccine. Fortunately, the vaccine is successful, and a lottery determines who will be the first to be vaccinated. However, by the film's conclusion over 26 million people die...
Feb 16, 2020 · The current top-trending movie rentals and purchases were all released within the last few months with one notable exception: Contagion, the Gwyneth Paltrow-starring film from 2011 about a...
- Fran Kritz
Apr 2, 2020 · Directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Z. Burns, the film follows the spread of a virus transmitted when sick humans touch surfaces and leave virus behind that others can catch.
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Mar 1, 2020 · As the coronavirus COVID-19 continues to spread across the world and into the United States, widespread comparisons have been drawn between this outbreak and the global pandemic depicted in the 2011 Steven Soderbergh feature Contagion.
Apr 6, 2020 · 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.
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...
