S1E10 / Dr Tony Fauci: From One Pandemic to Another / Mark Harrington & Peter Staley

EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

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🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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“I mean, many of us spent the whole ‘80’s in a state of terror, knowing that we'd been exposed, not knowing our status, not knowing whether we were going to live or die. And I think the vast majority of the population now has exactly the same feeling, where they don't know if they've been exposed. They don't know if they're going to get sick. Every single person is a risk.” - Mark Harrington, Executive Director and co-founder of the Treatment Action Group In today’s episode, co-host Dr. Celine Gounder talks to Peter Staley and Mark Harrington, members of Act Up, co-founders of the Treatment Action Group, and dedicated HIV/AIDS activists who know firsthand what it is like to live through a large-scale pandemic. They discuss their experiences as activists during a pandemic, including challenges, such as a lack of needed support from government and issues surrounding research and treatments, as well as how they are continuing their activism today through the founding of the COVID Working Group of New York. They also discuss similarities between the HIV/AIDs pandemic and COVID-19 today, including the magnification of health disparities that these infectious diseases bring about, as well as the man who has been there through it all, Dr. Tony Fauci. This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you. #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

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0:00.0	I'm Dr. Saline Gounder and this is epidemic.
0:10.0	I'm Dr. Saline Gounder and this is epidemic.
0:17.0	Today is Friday April 10th.
0:25.0	On April 7th, Tony Fauchy, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
0:31.0	spoke at the White House's daily coronavirus press briefing.
0:35.4	He and Dr. Deborah Burks said that COVID-19 is killing a disproportionate number of African-Americans.
0:42.0	The reason? Dispar disparities in our health system.
0:45.0	Sometimes when you're in the middle of a crisis like we are now with the coronavirus,
0:50.0	it really does have ultimately shine a very bright light on some of the real weaknesses
0:57.4	in foibles in our society.
0:59.9	And as some of you know, the greater proportion of my professional career has been
1:04.3	defined by HIV AIDS and if you go back then during that period of time when there
1:10.1	was extraordinary stigma particularly against the gay community.
1:14.3	And it was only when the world realized how the gay community responded to this outbreak
1:19.4	with incredible courage and dignity and strength and activism that I think that really changed
1:25.6	some of the stigma against the gay community very much so. I see a similarity here
1:31.7	because health disparities have always existed for the African American community.
1:37.0	But here again with the crisis how it's shining a bright light on how unacceptable that is.
1:45.0	In today's show, we're going to look at the legacy of the AIDS crisis
1:49.0	and how the US response to that pandemic 30 years ago
1:52.0	is shaping how we're handling COVID-19. to that
1:55.0	the pandemic 30 years ago is shaping how we're handling COVID-19 today.
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