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Disease Expert Breaks Down Pandemic Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED
Brian Amman, ecologist for the Centers for Disease Control, takes a look at disastrous pandemics from a variety of television shows and movies and breaks down how accurate their depictions really are. Also, check out the free WIRED channel on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV. Here you can find your favorite…
WIRED
October 21, 2019 at 11:24 pm
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Muckytuja
October 22, 2019 at 9:15 am
@Manuel Barsallo We DO know, but some people just curious what would really happen in those scenarios.
That’s why movies usually doesn’t follow reality.
To be entertaining. 😉
Miguel Angel Alvarez Ojeda
October 22, 2019 at 4:13 pm
@Manuel Barsallo seĺdopiña
Cookie man
October 22, 2019 at 11:45 pm
Oof
dlfon99
October 23, 2019 at 5:23 am
Get him to react to Atlus’ Trauma Center series. I beg you.
jisatsu
October 25, 2019 at 3:05 am
You realize that if movies were to go about being more realistic… IT WOULD BE CONTAGION! They did it, it wasn’t five hours long and it was GREAT.
That movie helped me decide my career lmao.
Emma Zack
October 26, 2019 at 4:39 pm
should have showed him “containment”
Goldtooth's Lair
October 28, 2019 at 10:14 pm
So if this man’s correct then that means and need zombie-like play that comes our direction will need to at least take up to a day to infect people means the undead won’t just immediately rise up as soon as they die that’s a little interesting
Mick Reilly
October 29, 2019 at 2:27 pm
For some reason he never really addressed a point he kept making. That you don’t get locked up like in the movies. Well what would he do with zombies? Put them in a tent? I am sure they would have some kind of restraints, but okay what if you have like 50 restraints and 100 patients who are all infected with some horrible virus that makes your violent? He wants me to believe that the government, or the CDC would not participate in caging and separating people if the consequences of the virus was violent zombie attacks? Even if it was not an infectious disease but some kind of chemical attack that created the zombies. They absolutely would segregate and imprison the infected for the protection of themselves or others.
That is my only gripe with him though, otherwise he was funny, and clearly knowledgeable. I think he just wants it clear that they are not bad guys, so people trust them. Which is obviously for the best, but acting like “No no, we will always be gentle and explain things. we will COAX people into isolation” Uhuh, sure. some dude with ebola is gonna be able to leave the hospital once you have found it. Not.
Goldtooth's Lair
October 29, 2019 at 2:33 pm
@Mick Reilly I think what he was trying to say is people that are expected to be infected will be treated decently while those that are infected we’ll be the ones that get put into like the quarantine areas and so forth because he does have a point if they just start grabbing people out of the crowd and just pulling them away and then locking them up and taking them down everything that’s just going to cause panic and Mayhem and then the whole facility can get compromised by Angry Riot people because they’re being treated poorly. With these types of things you wants to keep people calm and just aggressively pulling people out of a crowd or tying them up or thrown them in cages is not a good way on keeping people calm
zah fares
October 23, 2019 at 1:38 pm
Tnx
fouoii gyhh
October 23, 2019 at 1:51 pm
“its cool but its pure scifi ” thats double bonus for the thing
fouoii gyhh
October 23, 2019 at 1:51 pm
“Yeah, we don’t use GLASS viles.” MIND BLOWN
Johnny Abu Ghazaleh
October 23, 2019 at 2:12 pm
Why is uncle phil explaining diseases?
Music_Cisum
October 23, 2019 at 2:23 pm
It does make sense to decontaminate coming in with ET because they wouldn’t want to give the alien anything
lala
October 23, 2019 at 2:27 pm
He deserves a “best virus scientist guy” mug
Keely Shae
October 23, 2019 at 2:28 pm
You should do the same video, but with video games!
smmiile
October 23, 2019 at 2:28 pm
Love these movies, gonna rewatch Contagion 🤓
WickedStarfish
October 23, 2019 at 2:29 pm
i love the sass in this clip!
Chase Ray
October 23, 2019 at 2:31 pm
I’ve always hated the show “House”. I loved that it came up multiple times for being inaccurate. It tries so hard to be smart lol.
Jenna White
October 23, 2019 at 2:37 pm
Oh please do The Strain
Legendary Lincoln
October 23, 2019 at 2:42 pm
Hmm but did he consider that maybe they are decontaminating for the very the reason he previously stated. So that our potentially deadly viruses don’t effect/kill the Alien.
Alyssa's Dome
October 23, 2019 at 2:51 pm
I liked world war z
Trevor Ramcharitar
October 23, 2019 at 2:53 pm
This was in my recommend, I told myself I wouldn’t click on it. Here I am….dammit
Reyoso
October 23, 2019 at 2:54 pm
what about a few episodes on the Sci-Fi Show HELIX since its more in his field?
Miniroo
October 23, 2019 at 2:57 pm
Poor Glenn…
Alyssa Dyer
October 23, 2019 at 3:07 pm
I wish there could be a movie adaptation of The Bermuda Virus book. I’d love to see an analysis of that.
MASTER AMV
October 23, 2019 at 3:11 pm
Most of these are lab created super viruses though so that’s why they infect people far faster then normal viruses lol they were literally designed in a lab to purposely infect haha but I love the video its very interesting to think about all this!
bangtan-yoongi
October 23, 2019 at 3:14 pm
This guy was great! You should definitely have him on again.
Randomnick123
October 23, 2019 at 3:15 pm
But I think that E.T part where hazmat guys did decontamination before going in might have been a procedure to avoid E.T getting any unwanted germs, even tho it has been contaminated already.. But atleast they dont do anything wrong..
Mark Skater
October 23, 2019 at 3:16 pm
for some reason i want to see him fight a zombie
Da Greatest
October 23, 2019 at 3:19 pm
How about the walking dead
livelaughmusic513
October 23, 2019 at 3:25 pm
I’d love to see him come back and cover viruses and outbreaks in video games like The Last of Us, etc.
Winter Alexandria Miller
October 23, 2019 at 3:31 pm
That scene in world war z was my favorite
A non mouse
October 23, 2019 at 3:34 pm
I mean, with the decon before going in to see E.T., maybe they wanted to prevent him catching any more terrestrial infections.
Sarah O
October 24, 2019 at 4:52 pm
“I hate it when my flame thrower dies out” same bro
Babs
October 24, 2019 at 5:27 pm
17:40 I’ve seen this movie but never realized until now that her hands are prosthetic in this shot
Heavy Metal Kitten
October 24, 2019 at 5:35 pm
I like this guy
Cassie
October 24, 2019 at 6:13 pm
At some point you said that the CDC doesn’t have the authority to detain poeplo but still, if somebody is infected with something really dangerous and contagious (like ebola f
Cassie
October 24, 2019 at 6:13 pm
“Just imagine what kind of neat viruses you could find in an alien!” Neat clearly means two different things to you and I lol
fredener1
October 25, 2019 at 11:34 am
And the best thing – You are the guy that can name them! Priorities…. ^^
Natasha Dolenuck
October 24, 2019 at 6:16 pm
i would love to see this guy play Plague Inc.
Avardenth
October 24, 2019 at 8:04 pm
They should have him explain the tests they did on the Hakkar Plague lol
conversequeen64
October 24, 2019 at 8:51 pm
When he said “That’s how it will happen” instead of “That’s how it would happen.” Oh boy and he’s the expert.
TheIngridjoseph
October 24, 2019 at 10:45 pm
“It’s total chaos, it’s a mess, it’s pure Hollywood fiction”
🤣
Emily An
October 24, 2019 at 11:00 pm
risking getting sick xD
Spiderific!
October 24, 2019 at 10:54 pm
This dude was great. Informative, funny.. Would like to see him again. I know Outbreak was very fictional in the way it was played out on screen, but that movie scared the bejesus out of me as a kid. Not as scary now, but still an excellent movie.
Emily An
October 24, 2019 at 11:00 pm
the movie contagion changed me as a person, literally the scariest movie i’ve ever seen.
TheCookingNerd
October 24, 2019 at 11:05 pm
7:22 LMAO 😂
Meredith Robinson
October 24, 2019 at 11:46 pm
as an epidemiologist, this video was super gratifying.
blotchi lim
October 25, 2019 at 12:00 am
I love this guy! I mean he clearly can distinguish between his job & hollywood, he didn’t look down at the movie portrayal, & he stated he still enjoyed those movies.
He doesn’t take his job to take the joy of the movie 👏👏👏
Donald Trump With A Small Loan of a Million Subs
October 25, 2019 at 12:12 am
Zombie Apocalypse movies remind us to stay clean and wash our hands.
Daniel L
October 25, 2019 at 1:56 am
LOL… ooh Outbreaks…
Morgan1Hay
October 25, 2019 at 2:21 am
TV is such garbage. LOL No one can make a decent pandemic horror.
xx mercedes swiftie xx
October 25, 2019 at 3:49 am
detectives react to castle and Brooklyn 99
Casey Cundiff
October 25, 2019 at 3:54 am
I’d love to see his comments on the movie “Contracted”
Hastytkd
October 25, 2019 at 4:23 am
10:57 You don’t want to introduce terrestrial pathogen to the alien, duh.
hhjk377
October 25, 2019 at 7:09 am
“There definitely isn’t a coverup.”
Sounds like something someone who definitely knows that there’s an alien coverup would say.
fouoii gyhh
October 25, 2019 at 11:56 am
i would love to see this guy play Plague Inc.
Eric Taylor
October 25, 2019 at 7:29 am
I was vaccinated for small pox in the 1970’s. I was one of the people who helped eradicate it.
fouoii gyhh
October 25, 2019 at 11:56 am
“Just imagine what kind of neat viruses you could find in an alien!” Neat clearly means two different things to you and I lol
Baron Ockslite
October 25, 2019 at 11:54 am
Never thought i’d say this, but you need a trigger warning for that bat picture.
Daryl Dixon
October 25, 2019 at 2:05 pm
I love the Walking Dead
ElComanchero
October 25, 2019 at 2:38 pm
These videos are so great and he is interesting to listen to
Donna Brooks
October 26, 2019 at 12:50 pm
This was really interesting! I learned a lot. I wonder if he’s ever played the boardgame Pandemic, or any of its variants?
Samuitsuki
October 26, 2019 at 12:58 pm
This actually made me think it could be fun to be disease expert getting hired by movie studio to make sure they made a pandemic movie as correctly as possible.
FallenAge
October 26, 2019 at 1:33 pm
I would love to his take of the last of us
Ark Xerxes
October 26, 2019 at 3:22 pm
I think they cleaned themselves before going to meet E.T. so that they don’t transmit any disease to him.
Kevin n Friends
October 26, 2019 at 5:22 pm
Smallpox is back!!
Bjamse
October 26, 2019 at 5:36 pm
CDC = cult of the dead cow
google it!
charles bénard
October 26, 2019 at 6:09 pm
I like that kind of videos because it breaks down beliefs that are really implanted in our head because of Hollywood. Like, why would use use glass countainers? That’s finally just plain logic, but it’s really rare that we see that in the hollywood movies. Or why would we stop to treat people infected like humans? like if we were to not speak to the people and put them in jails. This expert gives us confidence in our researchers and forces against pandemic. I hope the the people who tends to believe in conspiracy theories regarding our scientist and their knowledge, or the doomsday preppers of this world who do not beleive that the humans will help each other in a case catastrophe, I hope that these people will watch these videos that can help them deal with the fear that they constently have.
Christian Mergil
October 26, 2019 at 6:48 pm
I saw Glenn for a split second in that walking dead scene then I got sad …
Scott Bates
October 26, 2019 at 6:56 pm
That was really cool!
Herm Wanderer
October 26, 2019 at 7:21 pm
Is sperm a micro organism?
Meredith Flenner
October 26, 2019 at 9:06 pm
Can you get him to breakdown THE STAND? Please….? Both the 90’s miniseries and the new one. Please please please?
Rob StrickeN Feary
October 26, 2019 at 9:18 pm
Yeah… they aallllllways think they have everything under control…
That’s why it happens.
Das Dovian
October 26, 2019 at 9:54 pm
The WWZ book was so much better. It’s a shame they went the way they did in the movie
PrognanOfficial
October 26, 2019 at 10:28 pm
Honestly…
I like this guy.
jonathan1991z
October 26, 2019 at 11:12 pm
Unsung heroes that should be praised.
aaron findora
October 26, 2019 at 11:38 pm
what about maggie?
Tom C
October 26, 2019 at 11:59 pm
Infection-in-seconds also happens in 28 Days Later.
Blueface
October 27, 2019 at 12:39 am
500th Dislike LETS GOOOOO😡, nice vid tho
Daniel Elyar
October 27, 2019 at 1:10 am
Pity that he didn’t review “12 monkeys”
Turtle Shell
October 27, 2019 at 1:12 am
This man looks in the face of death, and is like, “Actually no”.
Alyhana Pizarro
October 27, 2019 at 1:20 am
I’m here for the movie the crazies 😜❤️
Vex T
October 27, 2019 at 1:41 am
I dislike this arrogant CDC guy especially when he berates the ET scenes of washing before entering a infection zone, hello asshat it’s a 1980’s movie so the film crew had little to limited access to knowledge about the CDC procedures of containing a virus or hazardous entity during that time period and I guaranteed the CDC didn’t have the upgraded contaminant practices they have now back then!!! And in regards to comparing a zombie virus not infecting humans like actually known viruses is pure idiocy because a zombie virus isn’t a true phenomenon and it’s a bloody fictional movie!!! Get off you high-horse you douche.
Mik Kat
October 27, 2019 at 2:23 am
Cases of plauge?? Wtf
Joe Pesci
October 27, 2019 at 2:39 am
What a intelligent cool man 👏
Oliver Maglana
October 29, 2019 at 8:12 am
Ebola outbreak? philippines? Lol who you?
MadSpellz Gamer
October 29, 2019 at 9:56 am
*Hollywood script:*
Mike puts his eye protection on but when he does, the virus in the air gets trapped inside while the eye protection gets placed on.
Later on…his eyes turns into big scary worm like creature.
TacComControl
October 29, 2019 at 10:02 am
Your fun fact of the day, the name “Patient Zero” is actually based on a mistake, involving the first carrier of HIV to leave Haiti, who was referred to as the “Patient O”, for having originated Outside of California.
Greg Men
October 29, 2019 at 11:23 am
funny how to cut the scene when jenner was telling them about weaponized viruses – imagine the narrator going: “yeah, well thats actually very acurate. we have these, but we don’t use em.”
Sir I.K Elzyy
October 29, 2019 at 11:27 am
“They just walked in with filthy PPE.
PEE PEE
Sir I.K Elzyy
October 29, 2019 at 11:37 am
….
“KISSING IS A GREAT WAY TO GET A VIRUS”😁👌🏾🙏🏾
Killerean
October 29, 2019 at 11:55 am
The one thing that struck me with the robotic case loading in Resident Evil is:
There’s a tool that looks like something you’d hold in your hand in that case. What’s the point of loading the case robotically if you then have to proceed and handle things manually anyways? On the flip side: What’s the point of having the case when you can’t open it and use its contents since it’s so dangerous you can’t manipulate it in any other way but through a robot?
ahmed elhossainy
October 29, 2019 at 11:55 am
world war z, i’ve been saying this for ages.. not only are they suggesting that the virus is sentient, they’re also suggesting it’s advanced enough to diagnose another pathogen that entered the host literally seconds ago…
JustAnotherFace
October 29, 2019 at 12:11 pm
Wish they had him review any of the videogame infections like in the last of us, or Left 4 Dead
I Don't Know Either
October 29, 2019 at 12:12 pm
You’d decontaminate before going in to see the alien so that you don’t kill the alien by accident via unforeseen illnesses it might catch
Arseny
October 29, 2019 at 2:06 pm
A lawyer critiques lawyer films 🙂
Kirt Kirt
October 29, 2019 at 2:08 pm
1:30 maybe it’s supposed to be chaos?
Kirt Kirt
October 29, 2019 at 2:17 pm
Contagion movie what protein do they show? It’s probably based on a real one?
WillTell
October 29, 2019 at 2:19 pm
Truly a man of science: “oh look, a new potentially deadly alien virus, how cool!”
Kirt Kirt
October 29, 2019 at 2:28 pm
12:10 i think House MD is supposed to be an irresponsible dickhead
WillTell
October 29, 2019 at 2:29 pm
If there is someone carrying a super deadly and insanely infectious disease, what can be done to stop them then?
wake up
October 29, 2019 at 3:22 pm
Why the F do we still save/stack the last remaining viruses somewhere (save) ?? If it’s eradicated and you have the cure, why should we have this 0.00000000000001% change to be infected again?
JustGeorgiaxD
October 29, 2019 at 4:05 pm
This is such a cool insight
CoreyIsTheName
October 29, 2019 at 4:06 pm
Seems like the aggressive and forced isolation would become more and more commonplace as the outbreak gradually became more severe. Sure, they don’t force people the vast majority of the time, but imagine if a pandemic was killing everyone – I bet they’d stop “coaxing” and/or asking nicely.
Erika Vanessa Espinosa F
October 29, 2019 at 4:35 pm
About the smallpox, should we be concerned about what happened at the lab in Russia around mid september this year?
Tom H.
October 29, 2019 at 4:35 pm
One counter point. I’m pretty sure that was a reporter talking about patient zero, which they could very well call them that regardless of what the CDC would call them.
insert username
October 29, 2019 at 4:53 pm
*shows infection through bodily fluids entering the mouth*
Colgate ad: *rEadY FoR a hEalTHiEr mOUtH?*
S K Doyle
October 29, 2019 at 5:23 pm
He says that a disease could not tell whether a body was infected or not. Why not? Maggots can tell if flesh is rotted or living.
Christopher Konopka
October 29, 2019 at 5:30 pm
You would disinfect going in to visit Et so you don’t get the alien sick