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Introducing: Blindspot Season 3

Jan 16, 20241 min
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Episode description

In this season of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows, we travel back to a pivotal moment in the history of this country, and we trace how, decades before Covid-19, a virus tore through some of our most vulnerable communities while the wider world looked away. We go to a pediatric ward in Harlem, a women’s prison in upstate New York, a drug market in the South Bronx, and the inner sanctum of the National Institutes of Health. And we meet people who demanded that they, and their illness, be seen: mothers and children, doctors and nurses, nuns and sex workers, and a woman who literally helped change the definition of AIDS.

The first episode comes out on Jan. 18.

Blindspot is a co-production of The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with The Nation Magazine. Cover photo by Donna Binder.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Speaker 1

In the late nineteen seventies and eighties, New York City could be a dangerous place.

Speaker 2

People just started like disappearing, like one day they were then the next day they were gone, Like where did they go?

Speaker 3

If you're New York plague by violence, drugs, and polity.

Speaker 4

He said that people had the monster because they had that look.

Speaker 1

Misinformation and disinformation about HIV AIDS was common.

Speaker 5

They said it was only gay men that could get it. So I said, well, I'm not a gay man, so how would I get it?

Speaker 1

I'm ki write our understanding of the history of HIV AIDS and who has been affected by it is incomplete.

Speaker 6

We literally had to convince the federal government that there were women getting HIV.

Speaker 1

Blind Spot a plague in the shadows. Stories from the early days of AIDS and the people who refused to stay out of sight available January twenty twenty four.

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