Pandemic Scenes in Film & TV Analyzed by Disease Expert 🎬

CDC ecologist Brian Amman reviews realistic and fictional pandemic scenes from movies and TV shows, highlighting accuracy and dramatization.

Pandemic Scenes in Film & TV Analyzed by Disease Expert 🎬
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9.8M views • Oct 21, 2019
Pandemic Scenes in Film & TV Analyzed by Disease Expert 🎬

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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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