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Matt Hancock’s Movie Night

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BBC

News, Daily News, Politics

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Health Secretary talks about Contagion the movie, as hospital admissions and deaths caused by Covid-19 are now on a “downward slope”. Our Health Editor Hugh, goes through the numbers. And elsewhere, Brexit tensions over the Irish border keep bubbling up, Laura and Katya join Adam to explain what’s next.

Studio Manager: Michael Regaard Producers: Frankie Tobi, Georgia Coen and Jack Suddaby Output Editor: Rick Kelsey Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0

Hello, I had a bit of spare time today, so I went back and watched the 2011 film Contagion,

0:10.4

which everyone says almost exactly predicted what happened with coronavirus.

0:15.4

And this was the first time I'd seen it since I saw it at the cinema.

0:18.0

I did not watch it back at the height of the pandemic when everyone was watching it,

0:22.1

but it turns out I'm not the only one who's been tuning in.

0:26.0

At Hancock, told Nick Ferrari on LBC that actually some government policy,

0:31.0

especially when it comes to vaccines, is based on it.

0:34.2

In the film, it shows that the moment of highest stress around the vaccine program

0:40.6

is not in fact before it's rolled out,

0:43.4

when actually it's the scientists and the manufacturers working together at pace.

0:48.7

It's afterwards when there is a huge rout about the order of priority.

0:53.6

So not only did we in this country,

0:56.6

I insisted that we ordered enough for everybody to have every adult have their two doses,

1:02.3

but also we asked for that clinical advice on the prioritization very early.

1:08.8

Yeah, and the scene he's talking about is when Brian Cranston,

1:12.7

who a think-works-of-the-department of Homeland Security, stood at a press conference,

1:17.3

and he has a big kind of national lottery machine

1:20.5

and pulls out a ball for who's going to get the first doses of the vaccine.

1:26.5

But we do know that this vaccine is a result of the courage and perseverance of a remarkable few.

1:34.4

We shall now begin the drawing, John.

1:39.6

First, MEV, one vaccination are those people born on March 10th.

1:47.1

Of course, because it's American dates, it says three slash ten,

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