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'Contagion' Film As Teaching Tool For Coronavirus Pandemic

Author
KPBS Public Media
Published
Wed 25 Mar 2020
Episode Link
https://www.kpbs.org/podcasts/cinema-junkie/2020/mar/25/contagion-film-teaching-tool-coronavirus-pandemic/

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.

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