By Dianne Anderson No one really understood HIV in the early days of the virus, how it acted. Medical professionals couldn’t even predict how the bodies were going to be after death. As a mortician, Margo Malone recalls how they treated HIV much the same way as with the start of COVID-19 pandemic. Back then, she was getting at least one AIDS death every day or every other day. “Everybody became a suspect,” she said. “We didn’t know exactly how to treat the virus, at that time there was a heightened fear of how it was transmitted. Could you die […]
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