How does movie contagion end

What we are hoping is that state and federal money will be forthcoming. While Skoll has been involved in global philanthropy for nearly two decades, he now has an even more personal reason for being involved in the fight against deadly diseases. While working on Ebola in , he contracted a rare tropical disease that took two years to diagnose.

He took an 18 month medical leave of absence and is feeling better now. Despite many challenges, Skoll is an optimist, even about pandemics. Yes, the number of cases will likely increase as U.

As for future pandemics, Skoll sees a silver lining. Most of them peter out and turn into something less lethal. Get Forbes' daily top headlines straight to your inbox for news on the world's most important entrepreneurs and superstars, expert career advice, and success secrets.

This is a BETA experience. You may opt-out by clicking here. Edit Story. But in , this kind of well-functioning government seems like science fiction. Then the administration diverted funds from the CDC budget to house detained migrant children. Even the position of secretary of Homeland Security is in flux; Chad Wolf, the current acting chief, is the fifth to hold the interim position.

In the closing scenes of Contagion , thanks mostly to the efforts of its government-funded doctors and researchers one of whom injects herself with the virus, to better evaluate the effectiveness of a cure , a vaccine is developed, tested, and mass produced. We learn that a birthday-based lottery will be used to deploy the vaccine, with randomly chosen, numbered ping-pong balls read aloud on live television, to most fairly determine who will get treated first.

The idea of such an easy, structured ending is borderline comical. Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription.

By Ferris Jabr. Matt Damon stars in Contagion as an ordinary citizen caught up in a global pandemic. There certainly are plenty of enormously successful science-fiction films that abuse science in the name of drama, like Outbreak and The Day After Tomorrow , but very few Hollywood productions realistically portray the process of science, both its successes and frustrations. The story begins with Beth Emhoff Paltrow coughing in an airport in Chicago, on her way back home to Minneapolis after a business trip to Hong Kong.

Before long she begins to have seizures and foams at the mouth. Meanwhile, other people around the world — in Tokyo, London and Hong Kong — succumb to exactly the same symptoms.