How to Survive a Pandemic

Name: How to Survive a Pandemic
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 29, 2022
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Albert Bourla, Anthony Fauci, Dan Barouch, Glenda Gray, Jon Cohen

2022

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Home Box Office (HBO) | Release Date (Streaming): March 29, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Albert Bourla, Anthony Fauci, Dan Barouch, Glenda Gray, Jon Cohen

Summary: David France's documentary takes an inside look at the historic, multi-national race to research, develop, regulate, and roll out COVID-19 vaccines in the war against the coronavirus pandemic. The documentary began filming in early 2020 as the largest public health effort in history got underway and followed those efforts of over the nextDavid France's documentary takes an inside look at the historic, multi-national race to research, develop, regulate, and roll out COVID-19 vaccines in the war against the coronavirus pandemic. The documentary began filming in early 2020 as the largest public health effort in history got underway and followed those efforts of over the next 18 months, exploring in real time the hard work and collaboration of health agencies worldwide, as well as the political and moral failures of governments to act impartially and equitably. [HBO]… Expand

Director: David France

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 106 min

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Guy Lodge

Mar 24, 2022

Smart, humane and gripping even as it rakes over events all too fresh in our memories, How to Survive a Pandemic ends with plenty yet to be discussed and explored: It provides a road map to survival, but doesn’t suggest we’ve all made it just yet. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Mar 29, 2022

How to Survive a Pandemic is a poor title for a mostly fascinating documentary, whose flaws reflect its slightly fragmented nature. Yet at its core this HBO presentation captures the race to produce a vaccine amid political pressures imposed by a president preoccupied with his reelection, offering fly-on-the-wall access to many of the key players. Read full review

Angie Han

Mar 31, 2022

While its ambition and immediacy occasionally lead to some uneven patches, its insight nevertheless makes it a worthy addition to the growing library of films grappling with what just happened. Read full review

The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Mar 28, 2022

It’s compelling viewing, if a bit uneasy—not just for the flashbacks to those early COVID days of respiratory machines and people in HAZMAT suits, or the film’s second half, which covers the lack of egalitarianism in the vaccine rollout, and how those decisions ravaged non-Western countries and accelerated the rise in variants. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

Mar 29, 2022

I doubt How to Survive a Pandemic will alter anyone’s opinion regarding the necessity of vaccines, yet it does pay admirable tribute to the scientists fighting to save the world, including those stubborn earthlings who have no interest in being saved. Read full review

Devika Girish

Mar 31, 2022

The message — that science cannot succeed without a politics of solidarity — is important, but the film ends on a note of uncertainty that feels defeatist rather than urgent. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Mar 29, 2022

It’s as if the film itself is suffering from a pandemic hangover and can’t believe there’s a reason to feel better, even when describing one of the greatest scientific and manufacturing achievements in human history. Read full review

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alanpotter17

Jan 16, 2023

Um documentário que terá seu valor histórico acrescido com o tempo, focando nas medidas de prevenção e na luta pela produção de vacina da COVID-19, incluindo aí uma tensa eleição nos EUA e seus efeitos políticos.
É visível que é uma produção apressada, feita para agradar o contexto, paraUm documentário que terá seu valor histórico acrescido com o tempo, focando nas medidas de prevenção e na luta pela produção de vacina da COVID-19, incluindo aí uma tensa eleição nos EUA e seus efeitos políticos.
É visível que é uma produção apressada, feita para agradar o contexto, para aproveitar o timing de lançamento. Com isso, muitas questões são jogadas (efeito rebanho, números de morte que ficam limitadas até a data de produção) sem o devido aprofundamento. É como assistir a uma notícia jornalística mais do que a um documntário.
Ganha pontos por focar nas relações e nos homens públicos, muito mais do que apela a sentimentalismos das vítimas. Não é absolutamente necessário, mas poderá compor as obras que retratam esse período triste da saúde mundial.… Expand

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