The past is never past. As I wrote two months ago, the bungled political response to Covid-19 eerily paralleled the first American responses to AIDS https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-rest/202005/aids-and-covid-19-weve-been-here. The present parallels between Covid-19 and AIDS continue to increase: Both diseases are nasty and lethal in unexpected ways With AIDS, originally GRIDS (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome), many of the […]
Coronavirus Public Health Blog 5.7.20 Sars Cov 2 and AIDS: We’ve Been Here Before
History rhymes and chimes, and the past is never truly past. AIDS and Sars Cov 2 may be very different viruses, but live as historic cousins. Fresh out of public health school I began a residency at NYU-Bellevue in the early eighties. That New York, later the epicenter of Covid-19, was then an epicenter of […]