FRONTLINE: "CHINA'S COVID SECRETS"
PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET
This new Frontline documentary takes a deep dive into the probable and possible origins and spread of COVID-19 – and it’s frightening enough without the ominous music on the soundtrack, which makes China’s COVID Secrets feel like a nonfiction horror movie. It stars with SARS, which surfaced in China in 2002, spread worldwide, and resulted in some 800 before it was identified and contained. In December 2019, another deadly strain was identified (that’s where the 19 in COVID-19 comes from), but this particular virus was much more easily transmitted. The numbers in China begin to increase exponentially – but what’s scarier, in this Frontline, is the government reaction, and how while the virus was spreading, news and information about it was not. You know the rest. Check local listings. For a full review, see Alex Strachan's TV That Matters.