Chels’s Reviews > And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic > Status Update

every mention of "Patient Zero," Gaetan Dugas, is unbearably cruel. I know there's a documentary and a book demystifying his role in the crisis, but you only have to look at YouTube comments on videos about him to see that the harm Shilts deliberately does here (in interviews around 1987 he calls Dugas a "psychopath") is irreparable