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Plague City: SARS in Toronto (2005)

Plague City: SARS in Toronto poster
Directed by
David Wu
Genre
disaster film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Medical workers in Toronto struggle to contain a deadly SARS outbreak. The film follows doctors and nurses as they face the crisis.

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What happens

Plague City: SARS in Toronto is a 2005 medical thriller television movie directed by David Wu, set during the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Toronto. The locations and characters were composite characters or fictionalized versions of actual Toronto medical personnel and facilities. Produced by CTV as part of its "Signature Series" of television films dramatizing significant Canadian news stories, it was filmed in Toronto and Hamilton. It was written by Collin Friesen and Pete McCormack. The film aired on May 29, 2005, on CTV. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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