'The renaming of the coronavirus is a carbon-copy act of how politicians created stigma and fear of gay men in the 80s...just as it misinformed Americans back then, it will start to do the same now.' –JosephJaafari
The same medical experts who worked during the AIDS crisis say they are recognizing parallels between AIDS and SARS-CoV-2 — the coronavirus that results in the COVID-19 disease — being labeled the “” by President Trump and his allies. The renaming of the coronavirus, they say, is a carbon-copy act of how politicians created stigma and fear of gay men in the 1980s. And, they argue, just as it misinformed Americans back then, it will do the same now.
, an epidemiologist at Drexel University and an early researcher of the virus. “It served a political purpose, but it also caused a tremendous amount of harm.”GRID as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in 1982, less than a year after it was first identified. But the harm it caused during that time was severe. Welles, who is openly gay, said that his community was permanently scarred.
“People felt that they weren’t really at risk," Welles said. "In terms of public health, it was quite destructive in our efforts to control infection."
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