The Fight Against AIDS | The Lazarus Effect | 3

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

As AIDS activists keep up the pressure to find new treatments and lower the price of existing ones, they win unlikely allies at the highest levels of government. Meanwhile, some doctors on the frontlines of the epidemic take drug research into their own hands. And a new class of drugs promises to bring the sickest AIDS patients back from the brink of death.

Listen to new episodes 1 week early and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App here.

Support us by supporting our sponsors!

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American innovations, add free on Amazon music, download
0:06.0	the app today.
0:15.8	On a warm spring morning in May 1987, Michael Callan and two of his fellow AIDS activists
0:22.3	take their seats at a long conference table at the National Institute of Allergy and
0:27.2	infectious diseases.
0:29.2	Over a dozen government physicians file in to join them, wearing white lab coats and
0:33.6	solemn expressions.
0:35.6	One of them offers Callan a tight-lip smile.
0:38.6	Dr. Fauci should be here any minute and then we can get started.
0:42.3	Dr. Anthony Fauci is the head of the institute and in charge of all clinical trials for new
0:47.6	AIDS treatments.
0:49.4	Recently, he maneuvered to redirect the lion's share of public funding for AIDS research
0:53.8	over to his agency and away from a rival agency, the National Cancer Institute.
0:59.7	Callan's group, the People with AIDS Coalition, has been trying to get this meeting with him
1:03.9	ever since.
1:05.4	The last of the doctors take their seats.
1:08.6	Lineed up on one side of the long conference table opposite Callan, they're an intimidating
1:13.2	bunch.
1:15.0	Then Dr. Fauci enters.
1:17.0	Be sure, and with wire rimmed glasses and neatly combed dark hair, he looks younger than
1:22.0	his 46 years.
1:23.8	He extends his hand across the table to Callan.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.