Character mistake: During the interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Alan Krumwiede incorrectly describes what an R naught of 2 means. He claims on Day 1 there were 2 people infected, then 4, then 16, then 256... This is raising each number to the 2nd power (squaring each number.) But we learned earlier in the movie from Dr. Erin Mears that the R naught indicates the number of people who will become infected by 1 infected person. So to calculate the spread of the disease, each # of infected should be multiplied by 2, not squared. It should go Day 1 = 2, Day 2 = 4, Day 3 = 8, Day 4 = 16, Day 5 = 32, etc. (01:06:35)
Contagion (2011)
Plot summary
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Kate Winslet
Beth returns from a business trip to Hong Kong where they had a lay over at Chicago airport. While there she has sex with her former lover. Shortly after Beth feels sick, but puts it down to jet leg. She goes back home to Minneapolis and spreads a virus to her son Clark and husband, Mitch. When Beth and Clark die, Mitch goes in quarantine where the doctors stumble up on the fact he is immune to the virus. Meanwhile in Hong Kong, London and in another location, cases of the virus are cropping up, as the WHO give their best effort researching the virus A race against time is on. As the virus is spreading there is a chance the human race could lose...
More mistakes in Contagion
Alan Krumwiede: It's a bad day to be a rhesus monkey.
Trivia: Contagion got various accolades for its authenticity, being "very well fact checked compared to most science blockbusters", according to New Scientist. The screenwriter did months of research, enlisting the help of epidemiologists who edited the script and guided the actors.
Question: After Alan Krumweide starts spreading misinformation about Forsythia curing MEV-1, we see a scene in a pharmacy being flooded with desperate customers. But if Forsythia is a homeopathic drug, then why is it being sold in pharmacies in the first place? As the characters say later on, it takes months just to get a drug approved, let alone sold.
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Answer: Many pharmacies in the US sell homeopathic supplements.