COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

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 officials.


The movie’s popularity has spiked since 2019-nCoV started hitting the headlines. And it gets a lot of things right, in terms of epidemiology—but it also dramatizes everything a bit much. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s realistic and what’s not. ....

https://vitals.lifehacker.com/what-the-movie-contagion-can-and-cant-teach-us-about-ep-1841433460