Lipkin, who recently came back from China and is currently under quarantine as per new federal rules, to ask him about his work on the latest coronavirus outbreak and to revisit his role in the making of the now-prescient film. The film, meanwhile, has enjoyed a resurgence on streaming platforms, with viewers noting eerie similarities between the fictional virus and the recent coronavirus. Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, he and his team of scientists at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University have been advising China on how to combat the epidemic, which to date has killed at least 909 people and infected more than 41,000. Lipkin's name has reemerged in mainstream media. Is it real? Absolutely," he wrote in 2011. Lipkin and his team created an imaginary virus and hued closely both to science and his experience of witnessing pandemics. In late 2008, the esteemed scientist added movie adviser to his resume, when he was approached by the director Steven Soderbergh to advise on a film that would presage a global pandemic brought on by increased globalization and the incursions of deforestation on wildlife.
Ian Lipkin is known as a "master virus hunter," a cool-sounding moniker earned from more than three decades of lab work on identifying and curbing a wide range of infectious diseases from West Nile virus to SARS.
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