Matt Hancock admits movie Contagion inspired coronavirus vaccine rollout
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mirror.co.ukHealth Secretary Matt Hancock's drive to administer millions of coronavirus vaccine doses was partly inspired by a Hollywood movie, he has admitted.
The 2011 film Contagion charts the spread of a deadly virus and scientists' struggles to cope with the pandemic, culminating in a vaccine allocated according to a lottery system.
Mr Hancock stressed that the Steven Soderbergh movie was "not my primary source of my advice on this" but it did illustrate the importance of setting out the order in which people in the UK would get a vaccine. "I knew that when the vaccine came good, and I always had faith that it would, the demand for it would be huge and we would need to be ready to vaccinate every adult in the country, and I wasn't going to settle
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