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Dr. Erin Mears quotes from Contagion (2011)

Kate Winslet
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The average person touches their face 2- or 3000 times a day. Three to five times every waking minute. In between, we're touching doorknobs, water fountains, elevator buttons, and each other. Those things become fomites.

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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.

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Dr. Ellis Cheever

How are you?

Dr. Erin Mears

It's good, we just finished setting up the...

Dr. Ellis Cheever

I didn't ask what you're doing, Erin, I asked how you are. So... how are you?

Dave

My wife makes me take off my clothes in the garage. Then she leaves out a bucket of warm water and some soap. And then she douses everything in hand sanitizer after I leave. I mean, she's overreacting, right?

Dr. Erin Mears

Not really. And stop touching your face, Dave.

Dr. Ellis Cheever

When was the last time you ate something that didn't come from a vending machine?

Dr. Erin Mears
[Hesitantly]

Taco Bell.

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