Everything Contagion got right on the COVID Pandemic

I’ve been stuck at home for a week after the coronavirus outbreak has halted the world… so I decided to watch Contagion. _________ Music by Tom Fox Music: Follow me: ______ The 2011 film, written by Scott Z. Burns and directed by Steven Soderbergh, depicts a worldwide outbreak of a deadly virus… sound familiar? So I decided to compare everything thees guys got right, and everything they got wrong. It’s quite remarkable to see a film almost a decade old, so accurately depict the reality of, possibly, the largest pandemic we have seen this century. I’ll refer to three points specifically, - Disease origin. - Transmission speed. - The impact of misinformation. Probably the most shocking match with reality is that the fictitious MEV-1 disease depicted in the movie originates from animals. From bats to pigs, to humans. The information we have today about COVID-19 tells us that it too has an animal origin: a bat, to