6 movies about pandemics to watch (or avoid)


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Jennifer Ehle and Demetri Martin in a CDC lab in 2011's thriller, 'Contagion'.

If people have to self-quarantine, they’ll probably spend a lot of time watching TV to make the hours pass. We thought you might like a list of movies about hideous germs and desperate races to find a cure.

We’ve excluded zombie movies, because zombies are ridiculous. Granted, zombie movies do a good job of depicting rapid infection and collapse, but anyone who’s had the flu knows the last thing you feel like doing is running around and biting people.

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