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AIDS Foundation of Chicago Issues Commentary: Correcting the Record - Gaetan Dugas, Stigma, and the Patient Zero Narrative
July 24, 2024
CHICAGO, Illinois, July 24 -- The AIDS Foundation of Chicago issued the following commentary on July 23, 2024:

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Correcting the Record: Gaetan Dugas, Stigma, and the Patient Zero Narrative

By Emilio Davis, Policy Communications Specialist

We all recall the first case of COVID-19 reported in the US in late January 2020, and the first waves of lockdowns beginning in mid-March of that year; the pandemic's destruction of our sense of norma . . .

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