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Contagion: Here’s why we probably should have taken the 2011 movie about a deadly pandemic more seriously

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Cast your minds back to 2011 and Contagion, a movie all about how a deadly pandemic swept across the world, hit the big screen.

Fast forward nine years and that deadly pandemic has now become a harsh reality in the form of coronavirus. At the time of writing, there have been over 510,600 confirmed cases of Covid-19 worldwide and over 23,000 deaths.

Those figures are continuing to rise and many countries are now in lockdown to try and control the spread of the flu-like virus.

Scenes that we once watched while chowing down on our popcorn are now playing out in real time, with even one of Contagion’s scientific advisors, Ian Lipkin, in a cruel twist of fate testing positive for coronavirus.

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