Instead, it was known as a rare cancer found in queer men.
“I was totally baffled, and did not know what was going on.
I thought it was a fluke,” he toldScience Friday.
“I made a decision literally when I was reading that horrifying MMWR.
I had never seen anything like this in otherwise healthy young people.
And I said, ‘I’m going to change the direction of my research.
And I’m going to study these young gay men who have this terrible disease.'”
He was also kept out of the coronavirus advisory meetings, according toThe Washington Post.
“I’m a scientist and I’m a physician.
And that’s it.”
