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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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Feb 16, 2020 · 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 ...
- Fran Kritz
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 9, 2020 · Contagion’s scientific expert Tracey McNamara reveals the final five minutes of the movie was a crucial warning. Since news emerged of coronavirus spreading across the globe, Covid-19 has ...
- Katie Storey
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 ...
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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- Kevin Polowy
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.
