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People have been turning to pandemic-themed media, as Contagion sits atop movie rental charts and Outbreak trends on Netflix. How do these disease-centric movies hold up in the age of coronavirus? Did either movie have lessons we should have learned? What moments have found a strange, new resonance in our current circumstances?  This Let Us Explain references...  Dr. Larry Brilliant - https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/ This series of 'Contagion' interviews - https://web.archive.org/web/20120617033932/http://screencrave.com/2011-09-09/interview-steven-soderbergh-matt-damon-and-laurence-fishburne-on-contagion/ This news story - https://www.wsj.com/articles/burr-senate-colleagues-sold-stock-after-coronavirus-briefings-11584715866 TIMECODES... Background 01:02 Which is better? 03:16 The use of celebrities 07:15 Aesthetic differences 08:59 How does it resonate? 15:22 How they resolve differently 22:43 Fake news & fake cures 26:24 Better cast? 28