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Pandemic
2016 · Film · 91 min
Directed by John Suits
After a virus of epic proportions overwhelms the planet—with more infected than uninfected—humanity is losing its grip on survival and its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren, a doctor, arrives in Los Angeles with her crack team to lead the hunt for uncontaminated civilian survivors, but nothing can prepare them for the blood-soaked mayhem they witness as they head into the Californian streets where everything is considered a trap.
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There is a Netflix documentary called Pandemic about couple that is trying to eradicate flu. They found vaccine that works on all flu viruses but it takes 6 shots to work. That’s not practical at all therefore it’s not on the market yet.
The first time I heard about a universal flu vaccine was in the documentary "Pandemic" on Netflix [0] . The documentary talks about a company called Distributed Bio [1] which is developing this. Interesting to see that many different firms/labs are pursuing this path. Covid should have surely accelerated funding and focus to this area of research. Fingers crossed!
[0] https://youtu.be/fPs90HZbSVQ (Trailer)
[1] https://www.distributedbio.com/
And now that we know more about the mortality rate, what comorbidities lead to a worse prognosis etc., models that project deaths, hospital stays and the capacity of the health service to cope have been refined.
That's not to mention that many places in rural America have no capacity to deal with a pandemic - just think about the hospital in the Netflix Pandemic documentary ...