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Hollywood actors Matt Damon and Kate Winslet have reunited with other stars of the 2011 virus thriller “Contagion” for a series of public service announcements (PSAs) to warn people about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Winslet and Jennifer Ehle have teamed up with scientists from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health to offer four individual homemade videos with advice and a message of unity, reports dailymail.co.uk.
“Wash your hands like your life depends on it,” Kate Winslet said in her PSA, adding: “Because right now, in particular, it just might.”
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Ehle stressed that the coronavirus or COVID-19 is novel, meaning no one is immune.
“Every single one of us, regardless of age or ethnicity, is at risk of getting it,” she said.
“Contagion”, directed by Steven Soderbergh, explores a scenario in which a lethal and fast-moving influenza is spreading around the world.
In his video, Matt Damon said that it is “creeping its way up the charts on iTunes, for obvious reasons”.