Disease Expert Breaks Down Pandemic Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

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Published 2019-10-21
Brian Amman, ecologist for the Centers for Disease Control, takes a look at disastrous pandemics from a variety of television shows and movies and breaks down how accurate their depictions really are. Find out how realistic pandemics are as portrayed in 'Contagion,' 'World War Z,' 'Outbreak,' 'ER,' 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,' 'House,' 'The Walking Dead,' 'Pandemic,' 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,' The Andromeda Strain,' 'The Crazies,' 'The Girl with All the Gifts,' '28 Weeks Later,' 'The Thing' and 'The Hot Zone.'


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Disease Expert Breaks Down Pandemic Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

All Comments (21)
  • @WIRED
    To find out more about Brian’s work with the CDC, watch him in our video, All the Gear the CDC’s Disease Detectives Use in the Field: https://youtu.be/BPLZOFIwoZs
  • @IGoByRocky
    None of this is accurate they don't mention how people take all the toilet paper
  • @woodsy.2977
    This YouTube algorithm got some twisted sense of humour...
  • @csvega
    COVID has taught me that IF the world saw a Zombie plauge, we would see Zombie sympathizers, Bite Hiders, and Zombie Cults everywhere.
  • @notbatman7331
    He seems like a good guy with a lot of faith in humanity, We've let Brian down guys .
  • @jayscragg2434
    “In real life things are a lot more controlled” Well this is awkward
  • @madae.2183
    Poor guy he had so much more faith in humanity.. I just imagine how that faith has been destroyed in these months..
  • "A pandemic is not as nearly incontrollable as Hollywood makes it out to be" Covid: and I took that personally
  • > the cdc would never allow it to get to the point of a global pandemic This didn’t age well
  • He knows a lot about viruses. Just not about how stupid people are.
  • @konquerorkei
    "This would never happen, people would not go and contaminate hallways in the hospital" COVID-19 "hold my beer"
  • @TheDeadRat69
    This dude tried to warn us early without becoming a known time traveller.
  • @eddyrajan3523
    when this pandemic is over, he needs to come back for a part 2. i’m sure he is busy with this crisis rn.
  • @Emily-rq3ee
    Not gonna lie, I saw this video's release date and straight booked it to the comments
  • @Willysmb44
    I went through the unit NBC defense course in the Army and we had a guy who'd studied with the CDC who happened to be nearby and who came over. We focused on nuclear and chemical weapons mostly, but he went over biological issues and back then, before 9/11, he nailed EXACTLY what would happen in an outbreak that went nationwide. He even nailed the divisions along party lines as to how each side of the aisle would handle things, the breakdown in the supply chain, even the refusal of people to wear protective gear and refusal to acknowledge the problem at all. I wish I could find him today to tell him how impressed I am that he called the current situation over 20 years in advance
  • I wonder if little things like this will change in movies now that we've all had some exposure to the real thing. I immediately noticed them shaking hands rather than an elbow greeting.
  • @billyparkins757
    “Kissing is a great way to get a virus” Guess I’m safe then
  • @nabilahuda3447
    "diseases like this dont ever get to the stage of global pandemic" covid-19: let me introduce myself
  • “In real life things are a lot more controlled” This man had too much faith in how this would go down in real life.