--- product_id: 4637497 title: "Contagion (DVD)" brand: "marion cotillardmatt damonsteven soderbergh" price: "NT$418" currency: TWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/4637497-contagion-dvd store_origin: TW region: Taiwan --- # Contagion (DVD) **Brand:** marion cotillardmatt damonsteven soderbergh **Price:** NT$418 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Contagion (DVD) by marion cotillardmatt damonsteven soderbergh - **How much does it cost?** NT$418 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/4637497-contagion-dvd) ## Best For - marion cotillardmatt damonsteven soderbergh enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted marion cotillardmatt damonsteven soderbergh brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne and Bryan Cranston, along with medical journalist Sanjay Gupta, explore the real science of global viruses and what they mean to the human race. The world is preparing for the next biological disaster...but is it too late? ## Product Details - **Genre:** Drama, Mystery & Suspense/Thrillers - **Format:** Color, Dolby, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Ultraviolet, Widescreen - **Contributor:** Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Steven Soderbergh - **Language:** English - **Runtime:** 1 hour and 47 minutes ## Images ![Contagion (DVD) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/611OnmclqDL.jpg) ![Contagion (DVD) - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/717+PngS3FL.jpg) ![Contagion (DVD) - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/611OnmclqDL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Zoonoses infections which jump from animals to humans eg COVID *by S***I on Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2020* Contagion (DVD)  explanation of zoonoses = illnesses that spread from animals to humans from feces (hand to mouth transmission, unwashed food, contaminated water, unclean toileting, bird bat droppings), from eating infected animals (eg slow viruses like Scrapie in sheep, fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob human version of mad cow disease, trichinosis from pork), and thus cause human disease.Zoonoses are distinct from infectious agents which may temporarily inhabit the human body without causing suffering, disease or threatening the life of a healthy carrier who may become an agent for the spread of fatal disease to others eg Typhoid Mary a cook.Epidemiology is the study of disease incidence, prevalence, spread in order to understand the agent causing disease and perhaps finding ways of preventing avoidable human suffering eg Broad Street Pump cholera epidemic, cowpox vaccination in milkmaids prevented smallpox infection.Life in the Middle Ages was dirty impoverished hungry cold and barely survivable. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age  ManchesterContagion is entertainment with education guided by the CDC Centers for Disease Control which trained and warned actors that they must not touch supercooled specimen samples because their digits would instantly freeze then crumble off painlessly. SCIENCE journal of American Association for Advancement of Science: Contagion consultants talk about the movie scientific accuracy.Contagion explains the R0 = R-nought case and its importance for identifying contacts, protecting potential subsequent victims and the public health, the goals of CDC and WHO World Health Organization jointly in ensuring well-being through access to healthcare.BSL biosecurity level 4 to strictly contain infectious agents with deep frozen specimens saved for comparison with later epidemics (BSL 3 is less secure though in the movie the scientist was able to harvest the virus in his BSL 3 lab).Epidemiology, the gathering of information, data, facts, and then making sense of the information, is time consuming.For example in the current opioid crisis, the peaks of overdose deaths occur within geographic regions centered on automotive plant closures JAMA. Opium as a euphoriant counteracts identity loss, unemployment depression short term, though risks accidental or purposeful overdose death. In areas sedated with marijuana benzodiazepines Z drugs for insomnia prescription opioids, the preference is toward stimulants, methamphetamine, cocaine.In the US the Healthspan is 63 years (years lived healthy and well) vs Lifespan of 79 years.The major gains in lifespan occurred due to hand washing, antiseptic surgery and vaccination. Microbes and Men [DVD ] BBC 6 one hour episodes history of the discovery of germs.Once humans survived long enough to procreate, domesticate dogs, husband animals, steward the land, we could remain stationery long enough to create villages, towns, cities. Babe (Widescreen Special Edition)  comedy sheep farm, talking pigs, dogs, ducks, geese; farm animals making a plea for not being eaten.FYI The Spanish Flu pandemic came in 3 spaced surges which caused a total pandemic duration of 3 years, it kept coming back again and again 1918-1919-1920. Awakenings  Robert DeNiro Robin Williams true story of Oliver Saks MD drug research on patients suffering Parkinsonian symptoms of post-influenza encephalitis.FYI after measles infection (not vaccination) the human immune system is wiped clean, loss of memory for prior immunity = immune amnesia, decades later patients can suffer SSPE subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a slow persistent Central Nervous System infection caused by measles virus.Our current SARS Co V 2 virus causes COVID19 infection. The viral docking station is the ACE receptor site on human cells responsible for controlling human blood pressure. SARS Co V 2 causes damage to the CNS central nervous system ophthalmoplegia, heart - out of hospital cardiac arrest, heart attack, besides respiratory symptoms. Often patients arrive too late to the ER, though they are walking and talking on their cell phones, their oxygen saturation has already declined below 93% (when normally one would feel air hunger and begin gasping for breath, how you feel at 10,000 feet) sometimes to the 50s (equivalent to Mt Everest) without the normal feedback to the brain indicating insufficient oxygen saturation (shortness of breath, difficulty breathing). By the time these patients appear they are walking dead.In severe cases of COVID19 the body suddenly collapses, decompensating with frightening rapidity (precipitous inflammatory Cytokine Storm). SARS Co V 2 aggravates any underlying health problems which may already exist in an individual: asthma, current or prior smokers lung damage, COPD, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity.The depiction of physical crowding (waiters, toilet cleaners, grocery clerks, doctors Kate Winslet character, Jennifer Ehle's father) increasing viral transmission is chilling. The frontline workers become infected and die, CEOs collect the profits Inequality For All  Robert Reich documentary comedy why the rich get richer, the poor become infected unemployed homeless dead.Contagion is rather informative for me. 5* ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Contagion Movie Was Sadly So Prothetic *by B***S on Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2020* It was a thriller movie that came out in September of 2011. Its subject was the outbreak of a deadly virus. The film was titled, “Contagion.” It was very successful at the box office. Steven Soderbergh was its very capable director. In it, a fast-spreading “mystery” virus wiped out tens of millions of people worldwide.Enter the deadly coronavirus outbreak! Its connections to the disaster film are on the scary side. It was reported weeks ago in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Local scientists there claimed it started, like in the “Contagion” film, from animals and then jumped to humans. To date, 106 people have died in China from the virus and more than 4,500, they claim, have been infected. The disease has been confirmed in 17 other countries, including the U.S. where five people are being treated.At press time, Januay 29, 2020, 17 cities in China have been shut down encompassing 50 million people, according to news reports, “as the virus continues to spread.” According to the British paper, “The Daily Mail,” a nurse in China has claimed, “90,000 people have been infected.” This story, like so many coming out of China, has yet to be confirmed.Experts, however, at the MRC Center for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, in London, UK, estimate that more than 100,000 people, not 4,500, were infected worldwide as of the January 26th date. The count depends on “testing,” they insist, and “not everyone is being tested, they underscore.Wuhan is a city of about 11 million-plus. It is on lockdown! No one in and no one out. Before that quarantine order could be executed, however, about 5 million residents got out of town. The city as of January 28, reported 533 confirmed cases. What makes this virus particularly dangerous is that it has an “incubation period of one to 14 days,” according to news reports.How big is a city of 11 million-plus souls? Take the population of New York City, 8.5 million; Los Angeles, 3.8 million; and then for good measure add Baltimore, around 620,000 citizens. When you do that, you start to come to grips with the immensity of the current virus problem facing the Chinese government and its health officials.In the “Contagion” movie, the virus, which hit the U.S. hard, was spread by fomites, such as clothes, utensils, and furniture. The film did a really solid job showing how scientists identified, and eventually, contained the disease.The virus in the movie, like with the Coronavirus, started in the Far East – the city of Hong Kong. The film also spotlighted the panic that can break out in a society where there is a loss of social order. Citizens are shown fighting desperately for drugs while wrecking a pharmacy that they believe will fix their problem.Another virus expert, Dr. Howard Markel, of the U. of Michigan, maintains that “to put a ring around the city of the size of Wuhan with its population is unprecedented.” Markel is the author of the book, “Quarantine.” The Center for Disease Control has reported a “total of 110 people in 26 U.S. states are now being evaluated for coronavirus.”The movie features some of my fave actors: Bryan Cranston, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Winslet. The plot has a lot of twists and turns in it, too. Also in the flick, the disease spreads at a breath-taking pace. By Day 26, the death toll has reached “2.5 million in the U.S. and 26 million worldwide.” (Wikipedia) All the major health agencies in the U.S. are featured, along with international counterparts.According to the “Wall Street Journal,” the U.S has sent a plane to Wuhan, China, to evacuate American citizens, “including U.S. diplomats and their families.” The aircraft only has about 230 seats, while “about 1,000 US citizens are believed to live in the central Chinese city.” It was reported on January 29th, that 201 Americans were rescued from Wuhan and landed safely in California. (Daily Mail)The coronavirus outbreak’s impact on U.S. businesses in China is not known at this point. Festivities for celebrating the Lunar New Year were also canceled in order to be on the safe side. Schools, too, were being closed until late in February. According to the “New York Times,” travel constraints imposed earlier on Wuhan and areas nearby, “have penned in 35 million people…and Beijing has restricted its bus travel.”In the “Contagion” movie, a vaccine is found after Day 133 of the crisis, and the film soon ends on a happy note. Let’s all hope and pray that the coronavirus crisis comes to a safe and speedy end, too, and that the loss of lives is kept to a minimum. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting from a post-Covid pandemic perspective *by S***O on Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2023* I watched this many years ago. Thought it was a good movie then and it's still good but uncannily more than relevant post-covid. A thought-provoking scenario that could be said to be based on fact--before the fact / pandemic happened. There's a lot of good reviews here so I won't wade into the details. It is interesting how for decades people have been saying that life is imitating art instead of the other way around. For instance, predictive programming. That's a phrase associated with a series called Hollywood Decoded on Gaia network. One example they show is the movie The Matrix which came out in 1999 and on Neo's driver's license is the date 09/11/2001. The date then became infamous a few years later. Long story short, predictive programming is a way to condition the population to a planned future event. You could interpret the movie Contagion as implying a future event like the one that we just lived through. Interesting concept. Planned pandemic. Plandemic. Watch the movie. 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