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Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.In late March, amid the world’s deadliest-ever wave of COVID infections in Hong Kong, Beijing dispatched a group of seven traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) experts to the city to combat the outbreak. The experts were tasked with setting up a TCM treatment center and encouraging Hongkongers to treat the virus with old-fashioned remedies. The city's government hailed the TCM experts as saviors. Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, met with the experts personally and professed her “heartfelt gratitude”...
