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• 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.

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