The publication of this paper has left me feeling strangely quiet. I think I'm a little afraid to hope, all over again. I tested positive for retroviral genetic material back in 1991, I believe it was, and then the CDC just slammed that study. At the one medical conference I have managed to attend in my 22 years of illness, I saw Elaine deFreitas defending her research to a sardonic gang from the CDC. She's a brave woman. I hope her original research is properly vindicated.
Hillary's superb op ed seems to have affected people I've been trying to explain this to for years. An old friend wrote to me that she thought the whole scandal of institutional neglect of this disease, and the suffering of those that are ill, is moving and infuriating. She has never seemed to quite 'get' it until now, although she has certainly tried to be kind and supportive.