The Nation - News from Feb. 21, 1985
At least 400,000 people in the United States have now been infected with the virus that can apparently cause AIDS, and the growing epidemic will cost more than $500 million this year in treatment and prevention, researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. “We’re dealing with a real, enormous, new human tragedy that deserves our fullest attention, regardless of our social or sexual orientation,” said the chief author of the report, Dr. Sheldon H. Landesman of the Downstate Medical Center in New York City.
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