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Disease Expert Compares “Contagion” to Covid-19 | Cause + Control | WIRED
Dr. Seema Yasmin, pandemic expert and former epidemic intelligence service officer, examines the 2011 film “Contagion” and compares the Hollywood feature to the current Covid-19 pandemic. The prescient film got a lot of things right, but plenty of the movie’s main points were pure fiction. Dr. Yasmin combs through the picture, offering her professional insights.…
Mark Masters
May 6, 2020 at 9:50 pm
Funny how I though about the conversation I had with my Math professor back in 2012 a few weeks ago . We a little chuckle about “Contagion”. Now here I am coming full circle with the movie.
Joseph Tang
May 6, 2020 at 10:00 pm
I actually posit that the “Hollywood moment” of the investigator succumbing to the very virus she’s pursuing might be analogous to the Chinese doctor and whistleblower who first alerted Chinese officials of the virus, was subsequently silenced by his government, and succumbed to the virus himself in early February.
LEO.
May 6, 2020 at 10:06 pm
We have 6X the population of South Korea. So, of course it’s going to be much more difficult to contact trace.
How does this not cross her mind?
Boris Müller
May 6, 2020 at 11:50 pm
LEO. the USA is also geographically larger, and more spread out. Plus in Korea they were able to use phone messages to alert people.
However, Korea also committed more to contact tracing because they dealt badly with outbreaks in the past and there had been massive public outrage at the time.
Ahmad Javid
May 6, 2020 at 10:10 pm
You should’ve been my science teacher 👩🏫
Vioxa
May 6, 2020 at 10:10 pm
I never understood why the film talked about social distancing so much but then the officials and queues etc never distance pd themselves… probably to do with the film making, I doubt they didn’t think of that.
gretchen baker
May 6, 2020 at 10:29 pm
What an interesting job she has
Red Beard
May 6, 2020 at 10:49 pm
I believe anything this lady says! lol she needs become like a virtual AI teacher of everything!
Haim Ben Avraham
May 6, 2020 at 10:52 pm
I don’t know why we are not taking advantage of the facility and power of ultraviolet light to breakdown the virus. It could be used in street illumination and buildings.
Boris Müller
May 6, 2020 at 11:53 pm
Haim Ben Avraham wouldn’t that be a massively complex and expensive solution though?
Pinstripe Jim
May 6, 2020 at 11:24 pm
Dr. Yasmin is becoming one of my favorite professionals.
Nicollo Matt
May 6, 2020 at 11:35 pm
oh yes! this hottie again lol
Jamil Smith
May 6, 2020 at 11:52 pm
After revisiting the film shortly after the pandemic began here in the States, I’d been wondering about its accuracy, particularly concerning the roles of its government characters who fight the virus. Dr. Yasmin’s expertise here is very helpful in providing context, both for the film and for our unfortunate reality. Highly recommended.
yushis1
May 6, 2020 at 11:53 pm
Distractingly bright teeth
s3cr3tpassword
May 6, 2020 at 11:57 pm
Must be weird to watch movie with a character’s job title was the exact one you used to have.
andrea roach
May 7, 2020 at 12:06 am
Intelligent and gorgeous 😍😍😍
Helder Lage
May 7, 2020 at 12:10 am
are the US and the UK the single devoloped nations in the world?… so trump!
niacal4nia
May 7, 2020 at 12:11 am
Trump is more dangerous than the Coronavirus. Idiot Bush killed more civilian during Iraq war than Coronavirus. Vote democrat.
Our Common Ancestry
May 7, 2020 at 12:17 am
I have no access to such a movie… but Dr. DSLs is worth watching.
Instagram at Boomafur
May 7, 2020 at 12:19 am
sure, they should have made the video with a team of actors and not one… that way it would be so hard to keep track of anthing at all because i wouldn’t know who to listen to.. good idea.. you should direct movies
totallytubularvideos
May 7, 2020 at 12:29 am
Li Wenliang = Kate Winslet Character. You called this “pure Hollywood,” but it is one of the most exact and tragic correspondences.
KYTVIDEO
May 7, 2020 at 12:31 am
Thanks for the education. Want to see the movie.
PseudoFiction
May 7, 2020 at 12:48 am
Being an epidemic intelligence officer seems like an incredibly important job for any medical professional, wonder why she walked away to make internet videos.
TV Shows
May 7, 2020 at 12:50 am
Is it me or Dr. Seema Yasmin is supper hot, I find it vary difficult to focus on what she is saying.
Frank Pitts
May 7, 2020 at 12:53 am
I could definitely listen to her speak for hours. I appreciate her reviewing this movie because I saw this years ago and had a feeling that in my lifetime I’d see something like that happen. I liked the movie and still do even with the Hollywood BS. My father’s parents helped raise me in South Philadelphia and he was a WW I Marine Corps veteran who returned to become a Philadelphia police officer and was immediately thrust into the Spanish Flu epidemic. He survived WW I, the Great Depression, the Spanish Flu, then he re-enlisted in the Marine Corps when Pearl Harbor was attacked thus serving in WW II with all 5 of his brothers. I remember him saying that the world has a way of throwing off humans when it grows tired of being overpopulated. Every 100 years or so there is a pandemic and or wars that kill millions of people. He saw his fair share of those millions being killed.
Unicorn Hunter
May 7, 2020 at 1:12 am
Should’ve just let Will Hunting handle it. He’s wicked smaht…
Punished Snake
May 7, 2020 at 1:23 am
Lol that water supply line in the movie seems exactly like something a rebublican would ask. Except in real life they’d probably ask if bleach in everyones water would cure us.
The Vanilla Gamer
May 7, 2020 at 2:02 pm
Two years of practical experience, fresh out of college… hardly expert level. Nice framing.
Rayne Ozier
May 7, 2020 at 4:18 pm
When Contagion first came out, me and my cousin went to the movies. The theater wasn’t showing the movie we wanted to see, so we ended up watching Contagion. When I first heard about COVID-19 I couldn’t help but think about the similarities to the movie. It was interesting to see a professional break things down.
monoaudze
May 7, 2020 at 8:22 pm
i just remembered another scene that was cut:
one very short scene showing the chef all sweaty, head down and was obviously very sick.
miss M
May 7, 2020 at 4:22 pm
How about the constant struggle between social distancing and economic colapse..
Carlos Elizondo
May 7, 2020 at 5:38 pm
Can you react to the introduction of rise of the planet of the the apes part 2
Toast
May 7, 2020 at 6:05 pm
Very interesting! This is my favorite movie, I have wondered how it compares to Covid-19.
Joe Smith
May 7, 2020 at 6:16 pm
I’m a simple man…I see Seema, I click.
What's Up In Space?
May 7, 2020 at 6:23 pm
Of course America couldn’t do extensive contact tracing. It had to give $17,000,000,000 to Boeing (who said publicly they didn’t need a bailout).
Contact tracing would cost precious money which could be funneled to the wealth-class.
monoaudze
May 7, 2020 at 8:30 pm
meanwhile we wonder where the 2 trillion dollars went to. definitely not to those who needed it, since it’s all over news they didn’t receive a penny and had to close shop.
HECMAR JAYAM
May 7, 2020 at 6:28 pm
“…WE DO KNOW Chinese officials alerted WHO in Dicember 31st…”. Bye.
What's Up In Space?
May 7, 2020 at 6:32 pm
11:14 So in this movie, Jude Law is basically Donald Trump.
Remy Azhary Yosef
May 7, 2020 at 6:44 pm
I could certainly appreciate that Hollywood is taking the creative license in making the movie for entertainment purposes. But as a layman, without taking the timeline of its transmission verbatim I think we could all agree that we could see the parallelism between the movie and reality. And that in itself could give us some kind of push to see the urgency how detailed the movie portray some of its elements.
István Sipos
May 7, 2020 at 7:00 pm
01:32 :- ) now that is a problem. china in real life stfu waaaaay longer. and, IF the movie shows no batsh!t crazy U.S. president, it is historically inaccurate, to put it mildly.
taith2
May 7, 2020 at 7:10 pm
I’d say contagion had too fast death after infection, and too obvious sympthoms.
Crow Knight
May 7, 2020 at 7:42 pm
that’s a hot doctor.
Apophis XO
May 7, 2020 at 7:47 pm
I’m seriously in love with this woman. Smart, beautiful…To be honest I totally forgot about the virus when she started speaking.
RoseE Hadden
May 7, 2020 at 8:44 pm
Loving the shoutout to the MN DoH! They’re working their butts off and the whole state is proud of them!
abracadaverous
May 7, 2020 at 8:47 pm
The scene where the researcher injects herself with vaccine and then immediately goes to see her sick dad made me go “Wait, NOPE.” In a best-case scenario, wouldn’t a vaccine require at least a few days to become effective?
Michael bagley
May 7, 2020 at 9:55 pm
Thank you for that knowledgeable and informative comparison. I watched the movie “Contagion” a few years ago. When COVID-19 arrived, I told my friends and co-worker’s to watch that movie to see how bad things could get during a Pandimic.
Harsha Bm
May 7, 2020 at 10:08 pm
moral of the story is stop eating animals
ragusajr100
May 7, 2020 at 10:39 pm
“Doctor, Doctor, give me the news, I got a bad case of lovin’ you”
Jaroslav Záruba
May 7, 2020 at 10:43 pm
lmao wtf is up with that make-up, this is one of the cases when less is more
Willy Wong
May 7, 2020 at 10:58 pm
Oh no Gwyneth Paltrow’s character is sick? Should’ve used goop jade egg to … charge one’s aura 🤔
Mo Gregory III
May 7, 2020 at 11:50 pm
And real life just killed two more myths.
1.Supermodel scientists are just for movies.
2. No government is that incompetent.
MagicForDummiez
May 7, 2020 at 11:51 pm
Covid is slow.. and painful. And damage can be permanent.
Brandon Schleifer
May 8, 2020 at 12:14 am
The movie doesn’t focus entirely on the US. It has just enough focus on China to pander to the Chinese box office.
Cheryl Ching
May 8, 2020 at 12:15 am
How nice that there’s no gratuitous boob shot this time 👍
st ch
May 8, 2020 at 7:20 am
The only difference is USA handling pandemic
Kristian Kriesel
May 8, 2020 at 7:24 am
Towards the end of the film they talk about death rate or potential death rate for those infected and yes it was pretty similar to Covid19 Something like 3% and although that’s a bit higher than Covid they could have been more Holywood about it and chose 90%
Kristian Kriesel
May 8, 2020 at 7:24 am
Towards the end of the film they talk about death rate or potential death rate for those infected and yes it was pretty similar to Covid19, Something like 3% and although that’s a bit higher than Covid they could have been more Holywood about it and chose 90%
Tjo Wen
May 8, 2020 at 7:46 am
at least in the movie there’s no anti-lockdown protesters and people isn’t injecting themselves with bleach
alex carter
May 8, 2020 at 8:24 am
I’ll have to buy this on DVD to watch it, but I’d like to see it.
alex carter
May 8, 2020 at 8:32 am
I had chickenpox in my early 30s and boy, was I sick. I was given acyclovir, which may or may not have helped, but I was very good about taking it. It took me a while to recover.
Tarah Zarrabi
May 8, 2020 at 10:56 am
Have you ever heard of bleach as a cure lol
Gabriel Binoy
May 8, 2020 at 12:23 pm
diamonddbw
May 8, 2020 at 12:58 pm
Very nice explanations. Thanks
Rob K
May 8, 2020 at 1:10 pm
5:50 Except there is reason to believe the outbreak happened in China as early as November, which means it took them over a month to sequence it.
prakhar sachdeo
May 8, 2020 at 1:22 pm
Great analysis.
ZannBee
May 8, 2020 at 1:31 pm
Dr Carlo Urbani, an expert in parasitic infections, worked for the WHO Country office in Hanoi, Vietnam at the time the first SARS epidemic (2002-2003). For the sake of public health and safety, Dr Urbani spent several days at the hospital coordinating infection control, quarantine interventions and maintaining the morale of hospital staff. He lived up to his conviction that it is a doctor’s duty to “stay close to the victims”.
On 11 March 2003 during a flight to Bangkok to attend a conference, Dr Urbani developed symptoms of SARS. He died of complication related to SARS on 29 March 2003 – a public health hero. ( & )
Cheryl Taylor
May 8, 2020 at 2:07 pm
I had it in late November, in Upstate NY. I have phone records to corroborate. It was so bad and took months to get over. I ended up in the hospital January 3 (ironically, the same day as US and South Korea reported first confirmed cases) for 3 days with chest pains that turned out to be inflammation in my chest cavity due to the “flu”. Felt like a heart attack, but my heart is in excellent condition, no HPB, diabetes, etc to blame.
I want to be tested for antibodies and participate in studies or donate blood.
Mike Giron
May 8, 2020 at 2:09 pm
Can Dr. Seema Yasmin have her own show? I could hear her speak all day!
Jamie M
May 8, 2020 at 2:14 pm
I wish I could watch this movie again, but Netflix refuses to have any good movies…
Milton Waddams
May 8, 2020 at 2:42 pm
Nothing like a hot girl with brains.
Lets Snugglez
May 8, 2020 at 3:20 pm
Not even Hollywood could have conceived of a plot where the president completely undermines and sidelines the CDC. Making it absent and mostly ineffective during a pandemic. Then the same president touts a false cure that creates a massive demand and drives stock prices in a company that he holds investments. And the same president encourages instability, cheers on protests against governors and medical officials; and calls for the liberation of states. Reality is even wilder because of the Trump X factor.
You aRe wHat y0u think i am.
May 8, 2020 at 3:26 pm
The only difference is Gwyneth Paltrow cheated on Matt Damon before getting caught. And Matt Damon only cried at the end of the movie. Moral of the story is never cheat on your husband or wife and human can remain intellectually aware of society’s rules and don’t get emotion for the unloyal dead wife or husband but only in the last minute. 🙄
N Tan
May 8, 2020 at 4:36 pm
then 28 days later lol.
Xmx2772
May 8, 2020 at 5:02 pm
I think the big differences with the movie and reality are in the film the president actually wanted to protect people, and they also didn’t have other phenomena taking place. They didn’t cover things like the food supply running out or the economy collapsing and people facing evictions etc. Other things we are dealing with in reality are parasitic insects like locusts in Africa and Murder Hornets and Gypsy Moths in North America. As well, it’s going to snow this weekend in Eastern Canada and USA, while the west experiences droughts. It’s like the movie The Day After Tomorrow was crossed with Contagion. There have already been tornados as early as March in the Southern US and based upon everything else that’s gone wrong hurricane season will probably be particularly terrible. Hopefully this pandemic isn’t just a prelude to what the planet is gearing up to unleash on us.
Surf Surfing
May 8, 2020 at 5:33 pm
A brutha only clicked due to the thumbnail.
Isaac Alonzo
May 8, 2020 at 5:51 pm
Contagion was so good it’s getting a sequel, how about that!
Stanislav Kunc
May 8, 2020 at 8:57 pm
Thank you Dr. Yasmin. This is useful.
xihang yang
May 8, 2020 at 10:01 pm
Why is gwen patient zero and not the chef?
jmannii
May 10, 2020 at 12:55 am
No one in the movie found out about the chef. Also, we’re not told that he actually died.
Anym
May 8, 2020 at 11:39 pm
Day 5 and WHO knows about the outbreak??? Well that’s lie #1 lol. Maybe day 60 or so, and then another 30 for the WHO to tell the people once they stop sucking China ween
Zvjerka1
May 9, 2020 at 2:14 am
i just watch this movie accidentally few days ago on serbian tv pink premium ,,and i just couldnt believe how this movie was made 10 years ago and represent exactly what is going on right now,
praveen g prakash
May 9, 2020 at 3:23 am
This woman has more makeup than Kate Winslet in the movie
Skylark Ravenslark
May 9, 2020 at 4:09 am
The end clips depict a bat eating, pooping and instantly infecting a pig, and then instantly infecting a human. Usually even the first part for a bat with a virus to pass it to a pig would take months of mutations, etc… and then to become zoonotic again takes a long time to happen.
It was definitely a good movie, despite the many inaccuracies.
Bad Luca
May 9, 2020 at 4:52 am
The disease in this movie had a mortality rate of between 25% and 30%. Covid maybe less than 1%? MEV-1 killed ~26 million people. Covid 276,000 (exaggerated numbers) in 4 months so around 6900/month. It would take Covid 376 months (31 years) to reach 26 million. So what I’m saying….can we start hockey again soon?
89 Alpha
May 9, 2020 at 5:42 am
Securities fraud = Gileads remdesivir promotion
Sam Aten
May 9, 2020 at 7:53 am
Whose bust is it?
beer battered buckshot
May 9, 2020 at 8:15 am
Think I just caught the “love bug”😍😍😍😍😍😍
Christopher Bunn
May 9, 2020 at 1:21 pm
One thing that bothers me about the movie is the incubation period of the virus. One of the reasons the coronavirus has spread so well is that it has a long incubation period with a lot of asymptomatic transmission and a low fatality rate. But in Contagion, it seems MEV-1 has a very short incubation period, short disease duration and relatively high fatality rate. Wouldn’t this cause it to burn out quickly?
monsterrun
May 9, 2020 at 1:49 pm
so contagion is predictive programing…
while the covid 19 is non existing…they got to find a way to kill people here and there to promote the epedemic propaganda…
Tim Oliver
May 9, 2020 at 4:46 pm
Is there a reasonable method of calculating R0 with a test rate adaquate for the population, and data on the death-recovery rate as well as tracking of confirmed case numbers?
Tim Oliver
May 9, 2020 at 4:59 pm
Also is it reasonable to assume if the rate of new cases is less than the rate of recoveries and deaths the R0 is less than 1? Regardless we’re trying to reduce the number of active cases, which is what is happening when the rate of confirmed new cases is less and I’m surprised trackers like the JHU GIS site don’t emphasize these rates.
JudithLim YG
May 9, 2020 at 5:14 pm
Let’s face it a movie is just a movie. No one can expect it to be 100% like real life.
Rando 416
May 9, 2020 at 5:43 pm
For those that don’t know, South Korea was able to do so well in contact tracing because they severely limited rights and have a surveillance state
rabidrabbit
May 9, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Why is the R0 value for SARS CoV-2 much lower than measles if it’s more contagious? Is the R0 value for measles 12-18 without a vaccine? Why didn’t measles spread around the world like SARS CoV-2?
F0XYr4bB!T
May 9, 2020 at 6:46 pm
i wonder how the researcher can be so sure that the vaccine worked, since we know that some people are naturally immune to the virus (like matt damon’s character).
sardomus
May 9, 2020 at 9:49 pm
Great video… But in it, you mention that in the movie, the researcher dying had never happened in real life. But didn’t the Wuhan doctor that was disciplined for reporting on it die?
3 Musketeers
May 9, 2020 at 11:31 pm
WIRED can you please have Eminem on the most searched questions.
Leon Aburime
May 9, 2020 at 11:56 pm
This woman Seema is soo ridiculously beautiful
Kosh 963
May 10, 2020 at 12:51 am
Contagion 7/10… 🎥 😷
Nice, it was kind of part Scientific Doc..
E ON
May 10, 2020 at 12:59 am
…cathedral…..
Osvaldo Gil
May 10, 2020 at 1:01 am
Excellent video I enjoyed it I hope you can read my comment. However I think you missed the critical point of the movie: The reason why bats move closer to pigs in the first place, Was because of habitat destruction by humans. Yes there are a lot of potential pathogens in the wild and they’re going to be closer and closer to humans if we humans keep destroying our forests and our natural world. In a way, I think, humans are the true pathogen of the word. I speak as a biologist, neuroethologist and neuroscientist.
ken ellis
May 10, 2020 at 2:40 am
This was very cool. I too loved that movie and yes Jude Law character was very oh so sleazy.
Absolute Games
May 10, 2020 at 5:15 am
14:40 this is exactly what Trump would say
Michael W
May 10, 2020 at 5:37 am
Smart and model gorgeous!
Gonzie6
May 10, 2020 at 6:37 am
2:32 the question is probably for ‘us the viewer’s’ benefit than accuracy
Physique0
May 10, 2020 at 7:26 am
Wow, Dr Seema Yasmin is hotter than Instagram Thots. Bravo!
Herbert Miller
May 10, 2020 at 8:05 am
Fact stranger than fiction.
Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus ‘cure’ wrote to Trump this week
SoidSnake
May 10, 2020 at 12:41 pm
Another thing that makes contagion less realistic than real life is that the WHO in Contagion didn’t put Chinese interests above world health interests.
Michelle D
May 10, 2020 at 1:02 pm
If I had PCR TESTING, CEA and CEA19 at a hospital in 2018 due to a surgery. Would the Hospital be interested in a duplicate PCR TESTING based on a positive or negative covid test?
Iam Joergen
May 10, 2020 at 4:47 pm
Just like a movie it starts in China and US is the most afflicted country.
Luke Faulder
May 10, 2020 at 8:15 pm
That is some weird smoothing going on over this lady’s face. Magic Bullet maybe
STRAYA MATE
May 10, 2020 at 9:52 pm
🥰😘❤😘 I need a Dr. 🤪🙃❤🥰😘😘😘
Lloyd
May 10, 2020 at 10:01 pm
Just because you studied biology, organic chemistry, calculus, statistics, did 4 years in medical school, passed the boards, then did a residency for another 4-5 years before completing several fellowships as a researcher, you think that makes you some kind of “expert?”
Preston Chaunsumlit
May 10, 2020 at 11:40 pm
Basically…covid19 isnt nearly as bad…like…at all…2million plus americans dead vs. 0 americans on the same timeline.🙄
JeepCherokeeful
May 11, 2020 at 12:30 am
Timeline is off
Joey Baggadonuts
May 11, 2020 at 1:13 am
They can’t leave propaganda out of anything. I like how she mentions Cuomo and the field hospital. The Army Corps of Engineers is commanded by Trump. God forbid they give him credit for cleaning up the mess caused by New York’s failure at outbreak planning. I thought all the smart people were in that shithole?
Info Sip
May 11, 2020 at 1:22 am
Pls subscribe
Petrol-Dollar
May 11, 2020 at 1:52 am
Ya like…… Oh my God! The job of relating the story to the audience while attempting to reach a wide audience and maintain a solid story structure is just ridiculous and unrealistic. Your like the type of person that tries to explain a joke. The characters actions in the movie is as unrealistic as wearing 5lbs of makeup.
For The Greater Kill Team
May 11, 2020 at 9:23 am
So, basically the real difference was compared to real life was that Chinese government didnt lie to the World and the W.H.O didnt cover for the Chinese gov.
Ava Yu
May 11, 2020 at 10:06 am
Are you all stupidly brainwashed by communist China? Wuhan Lab origin hello?
Anyway, we in the US will prevail!
Antonio Celis
May 11, 2020 at 10:07 am
Are you freakin kidding me, I coughed 2 times last month. AM I DEAD NOW?
Abu Msuya
May 11, 2020 at 11:11 am
I been harping about this Movie since January. I don’t understand anyone that avoids it. There is still buzz words in this movie that aren’t in the current conversation. I have hardly hear the term “fomite” or, even, “R nought” is rarely used.
Anand S.
May 11, 2020 at 5:17 pm
So, in other words, this Hollywood movie is just how you expect a Hollywood movie to be? Thanks for the help!
Natalia Estrada
May 11, 2020 at 9:06 pm
el cuarto episodio de vis a vis el oasis porfavor!!😭😭💗
MICHAEL YEPES
May 12, 2020 at 12:11 am
Isn’t this scientist hot af?
Sama Toonsi
May 12, 2020 at 12:18 am
This movie was crazy
Azoof Toonsi
May 12, 2020 at 12:23 am
Hi
Azoof Toonsi
May 12, 2020 at 12:20 am
I agree with M Bilal
Lycaon1765p
May 12, 2020 at 9:21 pm
I thought she was explaining it to Gov’t officials who weren’t in medicine. Guess I gotta pay better attention lmao.
OceNebula
May 13, 2020 at 7:57 am
Terrorist breaks down bomb seens in movies
Paolo 89
May 13, 2020 at 1:58 pm
I miss so mouch battle damage
Jessica Cole
May 13, 2020 at 5:15 pm
Saw this movie opening night with a bunch of other public health people and I just remember being so annoyed at the scene at the Minn Department of Health, one of the top state departments of heath in terms of expertise, where they were talked to like children; not the way any of that conversation would have gone. They needed it to inform the audience, but they could have used a different setting for it so thanks for calling that out.
Jason Kent
May 13, 2020 at 6:01 pm
I love you ❤️
Stephanie A
May 13, 2020 at 7:20 pm
I have RA and Lupus. Because of the public outing of Plaquenil as a potential therapy means I now can’t get my script filled. So I’m suffering because trump advocated for taking it “just in case” and “what have you got to lose?” It’s a toxic AF medication and I have to be monitored regularly to make sure it isn’t poisoning me. I really hope that I can get it filled this month now that many countries banned the use. If it was helping patients in hospital, great. The problem is that a bunch of people ran to the dr to get scripts they don’t NEED and that is complete BS.
Peter Christo
May 13, 2020 at 7:29 pm
I’ve always wondered how you can infect fewer than one person? 🤔
Steph A-Q
May 14, 2020 at 10:30 am
It’s an average. So some will infect one or more, some will infect none. When they’re averaged out, it comes to a figure of less than one.
Benji Sun *Moxie*
May 14, 2020 at 8:25 am
what’s the US scientific community view on Remdesivir effectiveness in reducing fatalities directly caused by COVID19 complications?
dylonwalser
May 14, 2020 at 10:09 am
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elias salas
May 14, 2020 at 11:51 pm
imma call her Dr. Honey
Ranjeet Roy
May 15, 2020 at 5:25 am
Pharmaceutical industries brand ambassadors and marketing strategy… Huge disappointment to all Hollywood movie buff’s…. In reality all those fake superhero were just a fuss…
Brian White
May 15, 2020 at 9:39 am
Coming soon on Wired:
Highly contagious virus reacts to Pandemic movies.
harle nock
May 17, 2020 at 12:40 pm
So this movie is almost a documentary with its 95% accuracy.
Gift_RealG
May 18, 2020 at 9:16 am
Medical talk has never looked this good
Johannesburg777
May 19, 2020 at 4:16 am
Wow. Very informative. I love how she broke down everything, and it helps us to understand the situation more. Very good video
Gandharv Jain
May 19, 2020 at 8:44 am
11:03 Lupus.
Cris S
May 19, 2020 at 9:36 pm
its crazy how the CDC had more role in a fictional movie than what we are seeing now.
joshua valderrama
May 22, 2020 at 11:40 am
I love watching Dr. Seema Yasmin! Accurately Informative and absolutely gorgeous.
Brado191
May 23, 2020 at 11:10 pm
When she said Kate winslets character dying was pure Hollywood and that’s never happened…. but didn’t that happen to the man that discovered Covid-19 and the man that discovered SARS
noname privacyplease
May 24, 2020 at 7:15 am
How does one get the job you had? Do you need to study to be a doctor or something else?
David Garcia
May 24, 2020 at 8:51 am
At least you could’ve warned us for the huge spoilers in this vid. But very informative!
symbian
May 24, 2020 at 2:30 pm
As Neil deGrasse Tyson quoted Mark Twain in analyzing movies, “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” so you’ll have to forgive Hollywood for taking creative license on what are very grounded concepts in epidemiology. Also you forgot to mention in the movie and in real life, Dr. Sanjay Gupta is in a news program. Hahaha
coda creator
May 25, 2020 at 6:58 pm
We might consider the nuances allowed in adopting the title of “expert.” Cuz we all know if you just inject some hand sanitizer, you’ll be fine.
coda creator
May 25, 2020 at 7:15 pm
Why do we need to project millions of deaths in order to do what we need to do to minimize its spread as much as possible? FFS, America. Wake up and realize we are all connected and that eventually it will be you or someone you love. Herd Immunity is NOT a realistic consideration.
coda creator
May 25, 2020 at 7:16 pm
Yep. America blew off being the role model for the free world when we decided we’d all rather be rich at everyone else’s expense.
Truth Gaming UK
May 26, 2020 at 8:20 am
Absolute morons cant see this was completely planned! No hope for you if you cant see that. It’s honestly too late. Event 201, the contagion a d pandemic documentaries ame out in timely manner. Please wake the up.
Alice Mestria
May 26, 2020 at 12:02 pm
Question: There’s an important scene about Kate Winslet’s death, and that’s why I think she died in the movie to explain what people should do when they have symptoms or already know they are infected, she stays in the bedroom doesn’t leave and and gives the alarm, asks to reach out to anyone who worked on her hotel room so they don’t spread it to others and we can see what we should do to protect people if we were infected, or how officials will act. Is that right? Did you see that scene?
Alice Mestria
May 26, 2020 at 12:10 pm
Question: There’s also a scene with Kate Winslet and her colleague where he is complaining about his wife saying she is paranoid and makes him take his shoes and clothes when he enters the house and Kate says she is right. And actually in the country I live in we do that, we have a “contamination” zone in the entrance of the house where we leave our shoes, car keys, handbag, etc and preferentially we choose certain clothes and shoes to go out and those are the ones we only use to go out. How do you feel about it?
jerry a
May 26, 2020 at 4:18 pm
She should do ASMR her voice is perfect
Matthew Atwood
May 26, 2020 at 5:56 pm
Very well thought out and interesting. Thank you!
NotApplicable
May 26, 2020 at 9:14 pm
Why can’t I get a Doctor that looks like this??