Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis

Published: June 20, 2022, 8 a.m.

An unexplained cancer is moving through New York\u2019s gay community. Throughout the early 1980s, as more men die, its origins remain a mystery. Meanwhile battlelines form among activists, scientists, politicians, and the public at large. \u201cSlow Burn\u201d creator Leon Neyfakh is out with \u201cFiasco: The AIDS Crisis\u201d on Audible. The podcast looks into the forgotten twists and turns of the epidemic\u2019s early days, when a diagnosis was a death sentence. Neyfakh brings us those who struggled to keep the infected alive - and get society to care.