What the Movie 'Contagion' Can and Can't Teach Us About Epidemics
by Beth Skwarecki on Vitals, shared by Beth Skwarecki from Lifehacker on (#4YVJQ)
An awful lot of you have seen the 2011 movie Contagion. I know this because when a certain now-deleted twitter thread about the new coronavirus's R0 went (sorry) viral, people kept asking me if I'd seen the scene in the movie where Kate Winslet's character explains the term to a roomful of skeptical government"