Early in “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s nearly eight-hour documentary about the making of the album “Let It Be,” the band forms a tight circle in the corner of a movie soundstage.
It was late afternoon on March 5, 2020, the overcast day chosen by the State of Alabama to be Mr. Woods’s last.
A few months ago, Sizakele Mathe, a community health worker in this sprawling hillside township on the edge of the city of Durban, South Africa, was notified by a clinic that a neighbor had stopped picking up her medication.
That was a threat to her own health — and, in the era of Covid-19, it might have posed a risk to everyone else’s.
The KRISP lab, as it is known, is part of a national network of virus researchers that identified both the Beta and Omicron variants, drawing on expertise developed here during the region’s decades-long fight with H.I.V.
Now, at 80, he’s coming out of retirement with another movie.
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