Data show a significant uptick in lymphatic tuberculosis in 10-18 year olds in the last 4 years, with 2025 being by far the worst. This is usually a disease associated with AIDS, but there’s been no associated uptick in HIV.
Data show a significant uptick in lymphatic tuberculosis in 10-18 year olds in the last 4 years, with 2025 being by far the worst. This is usually a disease associated with AIDS, but there’s been no associated uptick in HIV.
Thank you! Very disturbing to see people treat the “airborne AIDS” thing as disrespectful to people dealing with HIV/AIDS, as if they are not also threatened by COVID.
As a person with science training, this comparison is very irresponsible. Two things can both be bad but not be like each other at all. When bad information spreads on social media, it only serves to undermine the work of the researchers.
If we don’t communicate the findings of researchers, isn’t that also undermining it?
Can you provide a more succinct way of explaining that COVID uses the same catastrophic immune evasion and persistence mechanisms and poses a severe risk in the long-term?
To be very picky, I can understand why some people would take an issue with the phrase airborne AIDS. First of all, it would be better to say airborne HIV and there is the implication that AIDS itself is more contagious, but nobody actually believes that in 2025. People understand that HIV is a blood-borne disease, saying that a blood-borne disease is airborne, creates such a terrifying scenario. I don’t think that people are expecting that they’re going to catch AIDS from a sneeze because people are saying that COVID is dangerous. I think this is just being way too fastidious with language.