Remembering Patient Zero and the Wreckage of Antigay HIV Fear April 26 2021 7:56 PM EDT
It was a beautiful, sunny spring morning in 2019. I awoke to a message from my friend, Richard Vaughan, who was in Toronto and had caught the opening of a new film at the Hot Docs Film Festival the previous night. Hey, did you hear? he wrote. We just won the queer lottery: you and I are in a documentary with Fran Lebowitz!
It was a typical jovial message from Richard, my friend who maintained a prolific output, writing novels, nonfiction books, reviews, poetry and plays. The film he was messaging about was
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Winnipeg Free Press Speiriscope By: Doug Speirs | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Friday, Jan. 22, 2021
Winnipeg Free Press
It sounds like the name of a Hollywood thriller The Hunt for Patient Zero.
The phrase patient zero has been on the minds and lips of much of the world as the search continues for the first documented human case of the COVID-19 virus that has so far claimed more than two million lives around the globe, including more than 18,000 in Canada.
According to the World Health Organization, it’s a search that may never yield an answer. We need to be careful about the use of the phrase ‘patient zero,’ which many people indicate as the first initial case, Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19, said last week. We may never find who patient zero was. What we need to do is follow the science and follow the studies.