Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic (TV Movie 2018)

Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic: With Hannah Fry, Javid Abdelmoneim, Christopher McPhillips. The outbreak of a deadly ‘flu virus is a major threat to the UK, to predict the impact of the next pandemic more accurately scientists need more data. Mathematician Dr Hannah Fry is ‘Patient Zero’ in this ground-breaking experiment.

“I mean, thereu0026#39;s no real spoiler alert here. Pandemics are going to spread to a lot of people – duh!nIt was fun to watch this cell phone experiment, but not surprising. Only surprise to me: this test was done in 2018, and at the end of 2019 we are battling the Coronavirus? Coincidental….?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnother thing I found odd is; no matter the death % of prior flus, when calculating the potential new flus the scientists used 2% as the u0026#39;magic numberu0026#39; of deaths per those who contract it. (The point here is HOW MANY CONTRACT IT * 2%).nYet, we can NEVER know those people who contracted it, but were asymptomatic, and how many people they will go on to infect. They do discuss the possibilities of such things – but itu0026#39;s just a cell phone study, and cannot accurately account for these variations. The discussion on those, and their presuppositions seemed a bit implausible with only an app. (this is where they lose a star).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is by far the best study Iu0026#39;ve seen for Pandemic spread and control. I wonder why our governments didnu0026#39;t take heed to their warnings and research when COVID19 arrived? Or maybe they did?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e*RECOMMEND WATCHING”