https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rock-hudson-the-shot-hear_b_8236162
"At a press conference on July 25, 1985, Hudson announced that he had AIDS. His film co-star, Doris Day, was by his side. This was the "shot heard 'round the world." It was the absolute moment that changed public awareness of the epidemic."
QUESTION: Who profited from "the changed public awareness of the epidemic" with funds, federal and private money?
Who made a lot of money with further epidemics with money-making schemes á la "The shot heard around the world"?
Especially the last sentence is interesting: https://history.nih.gov/display/history/Fauci%2C+Anthony+S.+1993
"Harden: My recollection is that Rock Hudson died of AIDS about this time. Perhaps that was another factor persuading Congress and the administration to increase the AIDS budget. I do not recall whether the budget hearings were before or after that event.
Fauci: We got our first boost before Rock Hudson died. Certainly Rock Hudson's illness and death had nothing at all to do with our assessment of what was needed. I believe that Rock Hudson died after the Congress was already aware of the need for increased AIDS research funds."
"Fauci: I was on a certain research track, and had been for several years. This was 1981. I had been at the NIH since 1968. I had already, I believe, made some impact on the field of human immunobiology, and I was very happy with that because immunology is a very exciting field. My goal was to continue to dissect out the immunoregulatory mechanisms of the immune system. In fact, that is what I am still doing, only I am doing it within the context of HIV and AIDS. I had a vision that I would continue indefinitely to dissect out the immunoregulatory mechanisms of the immune system, and to apply this knowledge to diseases like the vasculitides, the arthritides, and those other diseases of hyper-reactivity of the immune system. I had a very clear vision of what I would be doing for the next however many years.
When AIDS came, it turned my work around, but not as much as it would appear on the surface. The focus was still the regulation of the immune system, and I would be studying AIDS from the context of what the immunoregulatory defects are. That is the reason why we now study immunopathogenesis from a number of different standpoints.
Although AIDS is a terrible epidemic, it is an extraordinary model for gaining insights into the immune system, the likes of which cannot be obtained from any experimental in vitro or animal model."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rock-hudson-the-shot-hear_b_8236162
"At a press conference on July 25, 1985, Hudson announced that he had AIDS. His film co-star, Doris Day, was by his side. This was the "shot heard 'round the world." It was the absolute moment that changed public awareness of the epidemic."
QUESTION: Who profited from "the changed public awareness of the epidemic" with funds, federal and private money?
Who made a lot of money with further epidemics with money-making schemes á la "The shot heard around the world"?