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

which everyone says almost exactly predicted what happened with coronavirus.

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

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

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

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

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

In the film, it shows that the moment of highest stress around the vaccine program is not,

in fact, before it's rolled out when actually it's the scientists and the manufacturers working

together at pace. It's afterwards when there is a huge row about the order of priority. So not only did we in this country, I insisted that we ordered enough for everybody to have,

every adult to have their two doses, but also we asked for that clinical advice on the prioritisation very early.

Yeah, and the scene he's talking about is when Brian Cranston, who I think works for the

Department of Homeland Security, stood at a press conference, and he has a big kind of national

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

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

few.

We shall now begin the drawing gun.

First MEV1 vaccination are those people born on March 10th?

Of course, because it's American dates.

It says 3-10, so I thought it was going to be the 3rd of October, but it's actually the 10th of March.

And also, Matt Hancock is slightly misremembering it, because when they develop the vaccine in that film,

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