in a new Ebola PSA Jennifer Lawrence calmly states that she would survive the Ebola epidemic.
"I'd be fine," Lawrence says in a new public service announcement released on Monday.
Lawrence and other Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 castmates joined forces with the Ebola Survival Fund to further spread awareness about the virus and the critical importance of getting aid to those who need it.
The almost two-minute PSA opens dramatically with video clips of news reports regarding the outbreak that scared the world. There has been 19,648 confirmed cases of Ebola worldwide from December 6, 2013 to December 22, 2014. West Africa has been hit the hardest, having 19,642 confirmed cases.
Although there has been eight American patients treated for the deadly virus in U.S. hospitals, all of them survived. Actor Liam Hemsworth points out that Ebola patients in West Africa only have a 20 percent survival rate.
Lawrence reminds the world that the hardest hit areas are Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leon. The survival rate is so low because , the people there don't have accessibility to medical care such as fully equipped hospitals, medicine, electrolytes and food needed to beat the virus.
They also need trained doctors. Lawrence makes sure we remember that many West African doctors have died trying to treat those with the Ebola. 'They didn't have a lot to begin with," Josh Hutcherson says besides her. "Liberia has 50 doctors for 4.4 million people."
With the right care, West Africans could survive.
To close the dramatically somber black and white PSA, Hutcherson asks Lawrence what would happen if she were did get Ebola? The 24-year-actress sadly says she "be fine," because the reality is in the U.S. patients have accessibility to treatment.
"You have a lot of doctors," her 22-year-old co-star adds.
Other Mockingjay stars featured in the PSA include Jeffrey Wright, Mahershala Ali and Julianne Moore. Watch the full PSA below.
[PHOTO CREDIT: Ebola Survival Fund/ YouTube]
