Learning from the AIDS Epidemic

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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As Pride Month comes to a close, we reflect on 40 years ago when the world lived through another epidemic that suffered from misinformation and government inaction - the AIDS crisis. In this episode, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks with culture and politics writer Brandon Tensley about lessons from the AIDS epidemic that could help the country better manage Covid-19 today. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a new disease, at least in the United States, where it came from will discuss in
0:08.7	a short while, but in the United States it's new.
0:12.2	You probably recognize that voice by now, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
0:17.1	But that wasn't him talking about the coronavirus.
0:20.6	That was him almost 40 years ago talking about the AIDS epidemic.
0:25.2	In the United States alone, more than 700,000 people have died from AIDS since the early
0:30.2	1980s.
0:31.9	And right now, more than a million people are currently living with HIV.
0:37.2	So today, as we are dealing with yet another viral outbreak, we thought it was important
0:42.0	to look back at our response to the AIDS crisis.
0:45.4	Why did so many people die?
0:47.5	And why was the government so slow to respond?
0:51.2	So in this episode, we're going to share five lessons from the AIDS crisis that could
0:55.8	help us better manage coronavirus today.
0:59.9	I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, and this is coronavirus, fact,
1:06.5	versus fiction.
1:11.1	The Reverend Jesse Jackson says the shocking news that magic Johnson is HIV positive has
1:16.2	awakened Americans to the AIDS crisis.
1:19.9	Coming to age and sort of coming out in the shadow of the AIDS crisis, it's been interesting
1:24.7	to reflect on how deep and how long that shadow is.
1:30.2	That's my colleague Brandon Tensley.
1:32.4	He covers the intersection of culture and politics for CNN.
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