The story about the water crisis in Flint is actually true: In 2014, in order to save money, officials in Flint, Michigan switched the city's water source but failed to install corrosion inhibitors. They also failed to replace the aging lead service lines, which caused the water to be severely contaminated, exposing thousands of people to dangerous amounts of lead for several years. As of April 2024, a few dozen lead service lines still needed to be replaced.
Watson mentions Flint, Michigan and the poisoning of its water supply with lead, because of which "the government had to buy home filtration units for everyone who lived there." Flint's water supply used to be pristine before a political corruption affair that led to the lead poisoning. As of 2021, it has still not been fixed and none of the guilty have been punished.
The description of the serotype 40 adenovirus on the computer screen is word-for-word identical to the Wikipedia article "Adenoviridae".