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- Ripped from the Headlines:
- The case where a scientist injects herself with a vaccine while it's still untested, much to the worry of her scientist father, is presumably loosely based off a case during the Ebola outbreak where African scientists transferred blood from an Ebola-immune subject to a nurse who was infected. (Both cases worked, by the by.)
- The Nobel Prize-winning self-experimentation of Prof. Barry Marshall is mentioned, too
- Fake American:
- English actresses Kate Winslet and Jennifer Ehle both sport mid-western accents for their individual roles.
- Marion Cotillard would technically be FakeSwiss, but she didn't really need to change her accent for it.
- Jude Law seems to be rocking something like an Australian accent.
- Hey, It's That Guy!:
- Was that Lau?
- ...and Hal?
- Demetri Martin? What are you doing there?
- Well, hey, it's Elizabeth Bennet in a hazmat suit.
- Sol's gotten a job at the CDC janitor.
- After he killed Nate Haskell and left Vegas, Ray Langston went to work for the CDC. Well, he already was a doctor...
- The movie enjoyed a surge in popularity during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, becoming Warner Bros. second-most-popular title in their back catalog.
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