With the goal of sharing evidence-based information about the coronavirus (COVID-19), the cast of Contagionin collaboration with scientists from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Healthand Participantunveiled a series of PSA videos on Friday.
Castmembers Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet and Jennifer Ehle appear in the videos, exploring key tactics to slow the spread of the respiratory illness, such as social distancing, how to properly hand wash and ways to decipher the information in this difficult period. "I'm here to talk to you about social distancing, something we've been hearing a lot about on TV I think, in the last couple weeks," says Damon in his PSA. "In the movie, I played a guy who was immune to the hypothetical.