Coronavirus: Three lessons from the AIDS crisis
- Written by Laurie Marhoefer, Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
The AIDS Memorial Quilt, honoring people who died of AIDS, on display in Washington, D.C. in 2011. NIH/Wikipedia
As my governor closes all the public schools and public libraries here in Seattle, I’m thinking about 1981 – the year when newspapers in New York and Los Angeles reported that a strange new virus was killing healthy young...