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nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2 670N|||Skepticism Of Science In A Pandemic Isn’t New. It Helped Fuel The AIDS Crisis||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||It’s been 40 years since the first U.S. AIDS cases were were reported, and some who experienced the early years of the crisis say the effects of denialism then have carried into the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Biden Cautiously Considers Lifting Stiff COVID Limits on Travel to the US

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The Biden administration has been weighing changes to sweeping travel restrictions that bar much of the world’s population from coming to the United States. The EU is now taking steps to ease travel limits on non-EU visitors ahead of summer tourist season. But Biden has reached no decisions on U.S. limits, sources say.

nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2 670N|||Skepticism Of Science In A Pandemic Isn’t New. It Helped Fuel The AIDS Crisis||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||It’s been 40 years since the first U.S. AIDS cases were were reported, and some who experienced the early years of the crisis say the effects of denialism then have carried into the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Biden Cautiously Considers Lifting Stiff COVID Limits on Travel to the US

(Dreamstime)

nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2 670N|||Skepticism Of Science In A Pandemic Isn’t New. It Helped Fuel The AIDS Crisis||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||It’s been 40 years since the first U.S. AIDS cases were were reported, and some who experienced the early years of the crisis say the effects of denialism then have carried into the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Biden Cautiously Considers Lifting Stiff COVID Limits on Travel to the US

(Dreamstime)

nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2 670N|||Skepticism Of Science In A Pandemic Isn’t New. It Helped Fuel The AIDS Crisis||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||It’s been 40 years since the first U.S. AIDS cases were were reported, and some who experienced the early years of the crisis say the effects of denialism then have carried into the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Dr. Lawrence Mass, who wrote the first article about AIDS in a U.S. publication, points to South Africa when reflecting on the legacy of AIDS denialism. The legacy, he says, is “the death — the preventable unnecessary deaths — of more of 330,000 people” there.

Elias Williams for NPR

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