Contagion/Trivia


 * Ripped from the Headlines:
 * The case where a scientist injects herself with a vaccine while it's still untested, much to the worry of her scientist father, is presumably loosely based off a case during the Ebola outbreak where African scientists transferred blood from an Ebola-immune subject to a nurse who was infected. (Both cases worked, by the by.)
 * The Nobel Prize-winning self-experimentation of Prof. Barry Marshall is mentioned, too
 * Fake American:
 * English actresses Kate Winslet and Jennifer Ehle both sport mid-western accents for their individual roles.
 * Marion Cotillard would technically be FakeSwiss, but she didn't really need to change her accent for it.
 * Jude Law seems to be rocking something like an Australian accent.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!:
 * Was that Lau?
 * ...and Hal?
 * Demetri Martin? What are you doing there?
 * Well, hey, it's Elizabeth Bennet in a hazmat suit.
 * Sol's gotten a job at the CDC janitor.
 * After he killed Nate Haskell and left Vegas, Ray Langston went to work for the CDC. Well, he already *was* a doctor...


 * The movie enjoyed a surge in popularity during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, becoming Warner Bros. second-most-popular title in their back catalog.