The film “Contagion” inspired the vaccination plan in the UK

The health secretary Britain’s Matt Hancock said the 2011 film “Contagion”, which describes the collapse of society during a pandemic, influenced their planning for the deployment of coronavirus vaccines.

“In the film, it is shown that the most stressful time around the vaccination program is not really before it is rolled out,” he said Wednesday. Hancock on LBC radio. “It’s later when there is a huge dispute over the order of priority “. The British government has requested a “very early” clinical opinion on who should get vaccinated first, and presented it to the public, he said.

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Almost 10 million people received their first dose in the British program, which ministers see as the path to lift the containment measures that are paralyzing the economy. Hancock said he “insisted” from the start that the government order enough doses for every adult to receive a full course of the vaccine.

The government has set a target of vaccinating around 15 million of the most vulnerable people against the disease by mid-February. But there is growth debate over whether teachers, police and other key workers should be given priority for doses.

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Later Wednesday, in an interview with ITV, Hancock was again asked about the movie starring Kate Winslet and Matt Damon. “It wasn’t my only source of advice,” he replied, laughing.