"...During the HIV crisis in the early 1980s, Dr. Fauci created a similar panic regarding transmission. Fauci speculated that the virus could spread through regular household contact based on detecting the infection in an infant.
Perhaps the most famous case of this stigma was Ryan White.
He was a hemophiliac diagnosed at 13 after receiving an infected transfusion of a blood-clotting factor to treat his disease.
Because of casual transmission fears, he had to fight to return to school following his diagnosis at the age of 13, when the virus was considered terminal.
...People wondered if their fellow citizens were a mortal threat.
At the time, other researchers had advanced the idea of blood- and body-fluid routes of transmission based on the evidence provided by the transmission pattern.
The media largely ignored them in favor of Dr. Fauci’s more startling speculation during the election season of another Republican president the Left was desperate to defeat.
Ultimately, Dr. Fauci’s colleagues were proven correct...Read all.
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