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In January 2020, New Jersey-based filmmaker Nanfu Wang traveled to her native China with her young son to visit family. As fate would have it, the country was about to face the explosion of Covid-19, a public health emergency that would, of course, go on to envelop the entire globe. Wang, recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, quickly embarked on a film exploring the crisis. In the Same Breath , from HBO , pays particular attention to how the Chinese government—and later the U.S. government—instinctively responded to Covid by using propaganda to shape the narrative around the pandemic. Appearing at...
