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'Contagion' Film As Teaching Tool For Coronavirus Pandemic

Published: March 25, 2020, 5:45 p.m.

UC San Diego professor Joel Wertheim uses the 2011 Steven Soderbergh film "Contagion" to teach a class every fall in epidemiology because it is so accurate in depicting a global pandemic. I talk to Wertheim about viruses and what we might be able learn from pop culture about dealing with the current coronavirus pandemic.