Contagion (2011)

Tara Mallen: Minnesota Health #4

Quotes 

• Dr. Erin Mears : The average person touches their face two or three thousand times a day.

  Minnesota Health #4 : Two or three thousand times a day?

  Dr. Erin Mears : Three to five times every waking minute. In between, we're touching doorknobs, water fountains, elevator buttons, and each other. Those things become fomites.

• Dr. Erin Mears : How fast it multiplies depends on a variety of factors. The incubation period, how long a person is contagious. Sometimes people can be contagious without even having symptoms. We need to know that too. And we need to know how big the population of people susceptible to the virus might be.

  Minnesota Health #4 : So far that appears to be everyone with hands, a mouth and a nose.

• Minnesota Health #4 : We're going to need to walk the government through this before we start to freak everybody out. I mean, we can't even tell people right now what they should be afraid of. We tried that with swine flu and all we did was get healthy people scared.

• Dr. Erin Mears : In 72 hours, we'll know what it is - if we're lucky.

  Minnesota Health #4 : Clearly, we're not lucky.