‘Plague Years’ By Ross A. Slotten, MD c.2020, University of Chicago Press $20.00 / 214 pages Cover your nose and mouth.
Wash your hands with soap and water. Stay six feet away from strangers and those you think might be infected; better yet, stay at home.
And that’s how you squash a pandemic – more or less – although, as in the new book “Plague Years” by Ross A.
Slotten MD, sometimes it’s not that easy. It wasn’t until he saw his former lover, Art, that the reality hit him. Dr. Slotten hadn’t even considered that he’d be at risk for AIDS, though he’d been ministering to AIDS patients for several years by then.