Who Was Ryan White? Teen Who Contracted AIDS via Blood Transfusion

Newsweek says Twitter users have highlighted the case of Ryan White in a heated counterargument to recent controversial comments made by Dennis Prager about the AIDS crisis and unvaccinated Americans in an interview with Newsmax on Monday.

The remarks by the conservative commentator essentially asked what if gay men were treated like “pariahs” during the AIDS crisis in the way that non-vaccinated people are allegedly treated today.

White was a teenager who died in 1990 after being diagnosed with AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) following a tainted blood transfusion. He faced AIDS-related discrimination in his community in Indiana when he tried to return to school following his diagnosis.

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