We Won’t End AIDS Through Price Controls

Like so many other diseases, COVID-19 has a disproportionate impact on communities of color. The CDC reports, for example, that African Americans are 2.8 times as likely to be hospitalized with COVID as whites and twice as likely to die. These disparities, however, are minor in comparison with HIV/AIDS. African Americans in 2019 were more than eight times as likely as whites to contract the disease; Hispanics, nearly five times.