Kai Wright's WNYC podcast, Blindspot, revisits the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, focusing in particular on populations that are frequently overlooked — including the pediatric patients at Harlem Hospital. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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You've probably heard the comparisons, the height of the COVID pandemic to the early days of the HIV AIDS crisis.
Millions of people have died from both diseases, both ravaged communities, and exposed the fault lines in medical care.
Well, in a new podcast series from WNYC and the History Channel, journalists Kai Wright and Lizzie Ratner take us to New York in the mid eighties when the HIV virus first took root.
So new it didn't even have a name.
Hi.
So nice to meet you.
Valerie Reyes Jimenez remembers how it all started.
This block has changed so much, or.
At least when they first started to notice it.
We said that people had the monster because they had that look.
They had the sucked in cheeks.
They were really thin.
A lot of folks were saying, oh, you know, they had liver cancer.
You know, they had cancer.