The amount of research that went into this movie was beyond insane. Rewatched this movie a few days back and I was genuinely taken back by how realistically the spread of the virus and the aftermath was portrayed in the movie.
@Mycel yes, but not so obvious for a movie director. It's pretty apparent that extensive research has been done to achieve this level of accuracy and realism in the movie. The fact that the movie is nearly a decade old and still being able to relate to current situation shows that.
@@mbilal865 A writer does more research than A director, generally speaking. In the case of this writer, he already has A working respiratory disinfectant that takes care of colds, flu Etc...
The part in the movie where a segment of the population refuse to even admit there is a pandemic was left on the cutting room floor. Producers thought that was just a little too ridiculous even for a Hollywood movie.
@@simonroy2123 Doubtful. People on their deathbeds with covid are still denying its existence. The same is true for people who's family members died. There's no amount of danger that can break through to people like that.
yup and its only a matter of time before an even more devastating disease than the spanish flu (aprox 50-100million deaths) comes arround and wipes off half of the earth
While the disconnect between government officials and policy makers who no medical training and the medical community in the movie was quite good, I don't think it could have foreseen that the President of the United States could have essentially been like the Jude Law character, pedaling false cures and pseudoscience instead of trying to actually slow or stop the spread of the pandemic. In fact, I think if the movie had done that it would have been dismissed as being unrealistic at the time.
The Jude Law character promotes a homeopathic "remedy". The drugs Trump mentioned haven't been shown to be effective against covid 19, but they are real medicines used to treat other viruses.
You all are pathetic TDS sufferers. There are several "trials" that have been done very badly for HCQ and Z-pak but none done correctly where it is administered early and with zinc gluconate as it was in all the clinical uses where it was very successful but that weren't trials with proper controls. If you spent your time on researching what is going on instead of repeating "orange man bad" like the mindless brainlets you are you'd all know this, but neither of those drugs can bring big bucks for big pharma which is what Fauci wants since all his investments and friends are in it, it doesn't seem any proper studies or trials are likely to be conducted in the US any time soon. Now instead time is wasted on Remdesivir which by all accounts has a much lower effect than HCQ+Z-pak+zinc by all accounts, or vitamin D3, C zinc and selenium, but there you go, keep thinking the important thing is bashing Trump, see where it gets you. Pathetic is what you are.
@@noth606 Absolutely nobody cares what you have to say. You lack the intellectual credentials to be a part of this conversation. Maybe go talk to a wall.
@@yasso99991 She does come off as a professional who knows what she's talking about. Did you listen to anything she said or did you just jump straight into superficial bias and ignorance?
I watched a movie where one character’s job title was my own once. Technically it was a TV show, but hey that doesn’t matter. I think it was called ‘The Office’...
Dr. Yasmin does an excellent job explaining the movie "Contagion" and relating it to the current COVID-19 pandemic. This is a must see video for everyone.
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.
Carlo Urbani was an Italian physician and microbiologist and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as probably a new and dangerously contagious viral disease. He shortly afterwards himself became infected and died.
She said the EIS inspector’s death was unrealistic, not that any doctor’s death was unrealistic. We also know that HCW’s died of Ebola, but not EIS investigators.
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.
because nobody trust the government. Where is the WMD in Iraq, the plane that hit the pentagon and how did tower 7 collapse when no plane hit the building?
@@keithburt100 750k and counting, this is what happens when politics get involved... One thing the movie couldn't predict was the circus that was Trump's presidency...
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.
I like the fact that Dr Seema Yasmin speaks without too much medical jargon. That helps people who are not medical/science experts to understand. I went to nursing school and did very well, but some students we baffled at times due to the over use of medical jargon. Sometimes you have to just keep it simple. Everyone is not a medical expert, so to make people understand, you have to speak and show things to them through their lens. Doc, you're a 5 thumbs up. Easy on the ears and eyes, teach me any time, I will be fully engaged (like I was in this informative video).
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?
MJ GamingwithMJ Dude. This film was created to condition the public for a future global virus. The world elite plan worldwide & U.S. “happenings” 10 years in advance. They use Hollywood to present their agenda to the public as a joke in our faces.
You are correct. It showed this pandemic in the movie 9 years ago, nobody would take seriously about it. Here we are in this pandemic and look like it is going to kill many Americans in the upcoming winter if there is no vaccine available by the end of this year.
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?
How accurate are the scenes showing a sort of immunity bracelet in order to be allowed into stores, and the idea of randomly distributing vaccine to the population based on lottery?
possible. but for now, we only have wristband that track people under quarantine. source: qz.com/1822215/hong-kong-uses-tracking-wristbands-for-coronavirus-quarantine/
@@PatrickLofstrom Completely understandable if the death toll or infection rate was like it is in the film. I dont understand why more people dont understand this distancing isnt anyone trying to take our rights away, it's to make sure our right to live is upheld. I honestly wouldn't be upset at all if we kept up the distancing after the pandemic passes.
I feel the main difference between Covid-19 and MEV-1 is that MEV-1 began in and around international hubs, specifically in the casino, with people traveling right after. Covid-19 started very much inland, with travelers being far after.
MEV-1 causes symptoms and deaths so quickly that they needed it to be around international hubs. The brilliance of Covid-19 is that it can travel asymptomatically and takes longer to manifest that people have spread it around after such a long time.
Actually her character is base on Carlo Urbani an Italian physician and microbiologist and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS. He died of the same disease almost a month later.
In the film Kate Winslet's character it's exposed to the virus and subsequently dies not because she didn't take the precautions that an investigator of the CDC would take, but because the people that deliver her food to her room didn't hear her and therefore didn't take the safety messure Kate kept bringing up. Kinda of like the people refusing go where masks, they don't care about others as simple as that.
This movie is the most real outbreak movie in our time since the movie team do a research well about the outbreak. I think we can apply most practices in the movie, especially wearing a mask and social distancing.
The social distancing is talked about, but absolutely not put in practice in the movie. Like the moment where Matt Damon is queuing for food, everybody is stacked up like no one cared. However, the press conference scene is on point, with all the journalists well separated (current us press conference excluded). Also the obsession with masks, gel, facemask, TP and respiratory device is not at all predicted, as the maker movement and the 3d printing stuff.
@@lancereaudamien In a lot of states social distancing is more of suggestion than a rule that is enforced [looking at you Red States]. Although a piece of stupidity that the movie doesn't cover is some businesses banning the use of masks....
But those are deaths not cases. The cases number could be very wrong but it's much harder to miss deaths. If someone who was doing fine just dropped dead you kinda notice vs if some people are sick and just didnt tell anyone
Gus Alarcon Hopefully as a movie like Contagion which seeks to entertain and educate about the dangers of a virus outbreak and how countries can/should respond. If I see action blockbusters about this I will actually scream.
oh yeah, the media will be milking this unfortunate time in history for-ever... thats how they get ratings and attention. this was all planned. the government as a whole is collectively smart and can manipulate any circumstance to prevent putting themselves in a bad light or admitting any kind of actual truth. think about it with all the obsessive use of technology, it has made a lot of homebodies anyway, if not your always on your phone. Basically they placed distraction around us to condition us into accepting the reality of being quarantined . also another attempt to separate humanity to destroy it.we need a revolution and i think its here and now. ✊🏼fight back
Oh yeah, wash your hands avoid touching your face and you can cut the number of times you get sick way down. You dont even need to use antibacterial soap either, and its better not too use it at all (if you can cleaning up a toddler or sometihng like that then sure use it but its way way way over used)
Dr Yasmin is right on the money, literally. She’s been preaching to the SF homeless problem. And has friends at DARPA that would like to collect. Smart young lady.
Here's is my question about the movie: since the virus shows symptoms after a single day and kills within 3 days, shouldn't social distancing have been that much more efficient than for COVID-19?
Yes. That was basically artistic license to add dramatic effect to the virus’s symptoms. The way it played out was all based on solid research. A lot of serious scientists were consultants on the film.
She was right about the ppe... but in the movie they sort of delved into that when they "ran out" of body bags and that they were going to ask canada for more, but canada wont give the us any because they want to wait and see if they need them.
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.
I love this movie. First watched it after high school since I went to study public health and a lot of my first year courses were on infectious disease.
Should do it CSI style with characters pacing about and interrupting each others'-- Sentences! Exactly! That way we could keep the illusion of every character knowing their basics-- But we can tell it to the audience without the need for an information sponge Watson. What's an information sponge Watson, what is that? Shut up, Larry. Yeah, shut up, Larry. Right. We need to hack the DNA's IP in Visual Basic stat using contact tracing via a hardcoded genome base. Jim! Already on it! I found several contacts forming an epicenter in Wuhan, China. To the exposition mobile!
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
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?
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.
Just watched this movie over the weekend. I was shocked by the parallels to real life I saw in it. The movie was right about the panic-buying, the mask wearing, the time and effort taken to make a vaccine, the anti-vaxers conspiracy theorists, and the closing scene showing the bats as the potential origin of the virus.
Thanks for explanation I had no idea it was more on the kinda accurate side. A couple of suggestions: no mention of the WHO nor social distancing with Matt Damons character daughter. I found it very interesting on how -like now- people want to break social bubbles risking exposure
She hasn't heard a vaccine being supplied through water system, but we have heard suggestions of injecting disinfectant into our body. I say the reality is even worse than in the movie.
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.
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?
Question: When they say asymptomatic cases, does this means this person wont get the virus? or its delayed or their body was able to fight it off? i know some people that their closed ones tested positive, but that person was taking care of em and its been more than 25 days no symptoms.
Asymptomatic means they have the virus but aren't showing any symptoms (cough, difficulty breathing, etc.). They can still transfer the illness without knowing they're sick.
A is a prefix that means without So asymptomatic means without symptoms You have to have the virus to be asymptomatic, otherwise there aren't "symptoms" to look for.
Here's my question. I'm a pretty healthy person - I'm not on any medications and I rarely get ill (maybe a virus every couple of years) ... but I am over 65. Am I going to have to maintain social distancing until there is a vaccine? And if there isn't one?
By practicing social distancing you are protecting others esp. over 65 who have pre existing conditions. You can still transmit Covid-19 without showing symptoms.
So she estimated that between 100000 and 250000 people could die in the US 2 months ago. Current total is almost 140000 with cases skyrocketing daily. A good estimate but a bit low I think.
I’m sorry how basic this will make me sound... but I could literally watch her 24 -7 talking about absolutely anything. I love her so much that I’m creeping myself out talking about it.
Carlos Hernandez yes. I watched it multiple times. Anyone who contracted the virus did not survive. Matt Damon was immune. He never got it. If you are trying to troll me: name one character that got it and survived.
@@teppi5119 Hey relax... I´m not trolling you, i misunderstood what you said. It sounded like you meant that everyone died in the movie, more specifically the whole world not only the sick people.
also in Contagion like in COVID, the 1st major super-spreader event was mass travel during a holiday that a gov't refused to stop - Thanksgiving in Contagion [USA] and the Lunar Festival in COVID [China]
At 15:12, the doctor tell us that self inoculation is uncommon but, back in 1885, 28-year-old Peruvian medical doctor Daniel A. Carrión inoculated himself with the infectious disease caused by bacteria in the genus Bartonella: Bartonellosis or Peruvian Wart. He documented everything during the month and a half that his illness developed. After he died, all the information he gathered served to make the actual medicine. He saved thousands of lives and is a hero for the Peruvian Medicine and Peru.
It's a really good analysis.. but I think you've downplayed the amount of research that went into this movie. To make the movie this engaging while keeping it somewhat real in terms of real life situation is a feat
