“We, Act Up, got those drugs out there."
Not true. _I_ did. More accurately, my friends and I did.
We were Synthetic Organic Chemists. We worked in the Development departments of companies like Merck, Pfizer, Warner Lambert/Parke Davis, SmithKline, Upjohn, Abbott, Burroughs Wellcome, Glaxo, and Hoffman LaRoche. We worked under enormous pressure. Our management told us that every delay caused somebody's death. The chemistry was so difficult, we thought our task was impossible.
We stopped the plague. Not politicians, the government, AIDS activists, nor celebrities.
WE DID.
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