Don’t Touch Your Face: What the AIDS Epidemic Tells Us About COVID-19
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On our final episode (for now), we examine an older public health crisis and the lessons it offers.
On this week’s episode, Don’t Touch Your Face hosts Amy Mackinnon and James Palmer look back at the AIDS epidemic and what lessons it may hold for the coronavirus pandemic. They are joined by Xio Mora-Lopez, a longtime HIV survivor and activist, and Abraham Verghese, an infectious disease specialist and author of My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS.
This is the last episode in this season of Don’t Touch Your Face. But keep an eye on your podcast feeds for future bonus episodes and further limited series of the show.
Further Reading
“In This Pandemic, Personal Echoes of the AIDS Crisis,” New York Times
“Living With HIV When You Expected to Die,” Medium
About Don’t Touch Your Face: On the last day of 2019, China reported an unusual outbreak in Wuhan, a port city with a population of 11 million. Within two months, the disease would spread to almost every continent on the globe and kill thousands of people. From Foreign Policy, a podcast about the extent of the COVID-19 contagion, the threat it poses, and what countries are doing to contain it. Join FP’s James Palmer and Amy Mackinnon as they track the spread of the virus and explore what it means for people’s everyday lives. Have a coronavirus question for us to explore? Email it to donttouchyourface@foreignpolicy.com. See All Episodes
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