'More research must be conducted to look into the potential impact of sex, along with other demographic factors, on Covid-19 patients,' writes former US Assistant Surgeon General Susan Blumenthal for CNNOpinion.
Rear Adm. Susan Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. is the senior medical and policy adviser at amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research and a clinical professor at Tufts and Georgetown University Schools of Medicine.
As the Covid-19 pandemic overwhelms communities across the US, many of us in the scientific and medical fields can't help but remember the early days of the AIDS epidemic. In the 1980s, HIV was a mysterious, deadly new virus spreading quickly across our country. Fear and misinformation fueled outbreaks. Hotspots cropped up in New York City and California.
Susan BlumenthalI remember the devastating impact of the epidemic at its start: once people who were otherwise healthy began dying rapidly, the stigma surrounding the illness increased, and the government was slow to respond. Without medications to treat the illness, the only tools to help prevent it were individual behavioral changes.
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