Contagion Page #7

- Like with polio?|- Exactly.

The only danger with a live virus...

...is the possibility that it will revert|to wild type and kill the host.

And when will we know about that?

I'll ask the monkeys.

As of right now,|the mortality rate is fluctuating...

...between 25 and 30 percent...

...depending upon|underlying medical conditions...

...socioeconomic factors, nutrition,|fresh water.

With the new mutation...

...we are predicting an R-nought|of no less than four.

And without a vaccine,|we can anticipate...

...that approximately one in 12 people|on the planet will contract the disease.

Folks, attention.

We appreciate your patience|and we're doing the best we can.

We have exhausted our supply|of meals ready-to-eat for today.

What?

Please remain calm. We'll be sending...

Please...|Can we get some help over here?

Leave the park in an orderly fashion.

Help me!

- You okay?|- Thank you.

- Sorry, they got one of them.|- Get the trucks!

Get the trucks!

There's... there's nothing in there!

As the death toll|in the United States is now believed...

...to have reached 2.5 million...

...the president issued a statement today|from an undisclosed location...

...implementing mandatory curfews|in major metropolitan areas...

...after a second consecutive day of riots|in Dallas, Miami, Cleveland and Phoenix.

Absenteeism in law enforcement|is nearing 25 percent...

...according to reports...

Because of the high volume of 911 calls...

...please use the following directory:

If you have symptoms,|please hang up and call 612-188-6336.

To report a death|or for the removal of a body, please press 1.

Hello? Anybody home?

Hey, Mark?

Hey, Jor?

Jor?

I can't feel my hands.

That messed up my snow angel.

I'm fine, Jory.

If neither of us have it,|then we can't give it to each other.

- Get away from her.|- Dad!

- Get away. Get away.|- Dad!

- What are you doing?|- Stay there.

Go home, Andrew.

Get up.

Are we even close?

If we even had a viable vaccine|right now...

...we would still have to do human trials,|and that would take weeks.

And then we would have to|get clearance and approval...

...figure out manufacturing|and distribution.

That would take months.

And then training survivors|to give inoculations.

More months, more deaths.

Well, Homeland Security wants to know...

...if we can put a vaccination|in the water supply, like fluoride.

Cure everyone all at once.

I'm going home now, Ellis.|It's getting late.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

- What are you doing?|- It's okay, Dad.

- No, it's not okay.|- Do you remember Dr. Barry Marshall?

Thought that bacteria caused ulcers,|not stress.

Gave himself the bug|and then cured himself.

You taught me about him.

I'm testing my vaccine.

No, this is different.

I don't want to get you sick.

Ally, you can't take that chance.

Oh, Dad, you're here|because you stayed in your practice...

...treating sick people|after everyone else went home.

You took that chance.|You took that chance every day.

What?

He won a Nobel Prize.

- Yes, I know, Dad.|- Barry Marshall.

The Food and Drug|Administration is accelerating approval...

...of the MEV-1 vaccine...

...currently in production at five|secret locations in the U.S. And Europe...

...saying the first doses could be available|for human use within 90 days.

The WHO estimates|that it could take nearly a year...

...to manufacture and distribute|the necessary amount of the vaccine...

...to stop the spread of the virus...

...which so far has taken|over 26 million lives worldwide.

But as labs work around the clock|to produce the life-saving formula...

...the question remains: Who gets it first?

- Don't touch me.|- Where is it?

- We don't have it.|- Bullshit. He works there. He gets it first.

We don't have it. We have to wait...

- Aubrey?|- Ellis?

Where are you?

It's because they saw you on the|news and they heard about what happened.

- You all right?|- They knew where you worked.

They waited for you to leave.

- Get up here. Come on. Let me look at you.|- I tried to stop them.

I tried.

- Did they touch you? Did they look sick?|- They had masks on, Ellis, and gloves.

Don't tell me that...|Aubrey, we get the vaccine tomorrow.

You have to trust me, Ellis.

They didn't touch me.

After the Spanish flu in 1918,|you know, people got rich.

The Vicks VapoRub people,|the Lysol people, look it up.

One man dies,|another man makes money off his coffin.

One country culls all their chickens,|red meat goes into higher demand.

I'm not the first person to make money...

...off the fact that our immune system|is a work in progress.

The pharmaceutical industry|do it every quarter.

I don't think anyone is immune|to opportunity, Alan.

It's just that studies show|that there is no proof that forsythia works.

Who conducted the studies?

What defines "works"?|Against what strain of the virus?

Did you know about the studies|when we met the last time?

We can get in a lot of trouble...

Do you really think this Dr. Hextall|CDC person is Jesus in a lab coat?

The government rushed the trials.

The lawyers indemnified|the drug companies.

Maybe it causes autism or narcolepsy|or cancer 10 years from now.

Who knows?

You... The...

The swine flu vaccine killed people|back in 1976.

Nerve disease.

So we're all guinea pigs,|starting from today.

Just wait, they'll start listing side effects|like the credits at the end of a movie.

People trust you, Alan.|If you tell them not to take it...

That's right.

They trust me.|All 12 million unique visitors.

I'm a trusted man|stepping up to a microphone...

...in front of a very large crowd.

That's who I am. That's the brand.

I say the right thing,|nobody shows up for their shot.

Maybe they'd rather roll the dice|with forsythia.

I can make that happen.

I just wanna know|I'm in the best position possible when I do.

What does that mean, exactly?

If I'm gonna step into the crosshairs,|I wanna know what's in...

- Is he with you?|- What? Who?

Are you wearing a wire?

Alan, I didn't have a choice.|They've seen your blog.

Get him.

- Far enough, far enough.|- For what? Tell me, for what?

Securities fraud, conspiracy,|and most likely manslaughter.

- It cured me. Forsythia cured me.|- We'll see, Alan.

This is entrapment.

You can't take my blood.|You can't, that's my property.

We may never know|where this disease came from.

But we do know|that this vaccine is the result...

...of the courage and perseverance|of a remarkable few.

We shall now begin the drawing. John.

The first MEV-1 vaccination...

...are those people born on March 10th.

March 10th.

We remind all of you|to stay 10 feet apart from each other...

...while on line.

Shouldn't you be downstairs?

I'm tracking vaccine batch numbers.

This is what you have to be doing|right this minute?

This is what I want to do|right this minute.

Take a bow, Ally.

People have for a lot less.

It's not that hard|to give yourself an injection.

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