Rewatching "Contagion" in a Pandemic

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🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Rewatching "Contagion" in a pandemic.

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0:00.0	It looks like a pretty bleak winter ahead, with COVID cases and deaths spiking around the country.
0:07.7	Back in early February, as the virus was raging in China and Italy and elsewhere, but not here yet,
0:14.0	we were still grappling with what was to come, and we asked science writer Lori Garrett about an old advisory from our breaking news
0:22.4	consumers handbook Infectious Disease Edition, the one that read, Hollywood is pretend.
0:29.7	Hollywood is pretend.
0:32.0	That was one of the three scientific advisors on the film Contagion.
0:35.9	Is there anyone else who might have had contact with her?
0:38.6	This was everyone.
0:40.3	Aaron Barnes did.
0:41.7	Barnes, he worked on another floor.
0:43.5	There were documents she needed to sign.
0:45.2	He picked her up from the airport.
0:46.9	He picked her up from the airport?
0:48.3	Yes.
0:49.0	Where is he?
0:50.7	We went to great lengths to make it as accurate as we possibly could.
0:55.0	How are you feeling today?
0:57.0	Pretty cruddy, to be honest.
0:59.0	Head is pounding. I probably picked up some sort of buck.
1:01.0	Where are you right now?
1:02.0	I'm on the bus, heading to work.
1:04.0	I'd like you to get off immediately.
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