As the Wuhan coronavirus started to spread, the Chinese government made sure news about it didn’t. A thorough investigation of the early days of the virus the whole world now talks about, by a Chinese journalist in Wuhan, the quarantined epicenter of the virus. If you read one more piece about the coronavirus, make it this one.

From Weekly Filet #287, in March 2020.

The Chinese coronavirus cover-up

China Media Project

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The New Yorker

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The New Republic

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