Two Pandemics How HIV and AIDS has inspired Covid19 related creative work

Drawing parallels between AIDS and Covid-19 pandemics

Several people, on different occasions, have asked me to talk about similarities and differences between the pandemic of the eighties (or the eighties’ “plague,” how Larry Kramer called it) and the current, Coronavirus pandemic. While I’ve covered HIV and AIDS for almost twenty years, I’ve just started capturing the present pandemic, for obvious reasons.

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