Dating after Hepatitis C: Hope on the horizon for the 1 in 30 boomers estimated to be infected

Dating after Hepatitis C: Hope on the horizon for the 1 in 30 boomers estimated to be infected
Marion Winik
Baby boomers are 6 times more likely to be infected than other adults. We need to talk about testing and treatment

Recently I went on a first date — a stroll in a city park — that went rather well. We had so much in common, from a love of reading to a history of youthful troublemaking. If I wasn’t convinced already he was someone I could relate to, my new friend shared that he’d been cured of Hepatitis C.

I could hardly believe it. Instead of having to awkwardly explain my medical history, I’d met someone who shares it. It was a first. The only other time I’d met people who’d been cured of Hepatitis C, I was at an event at Johns Hopkins celebrating the first 1,000 successes of the new drugs. Some of my fellow drug program participants had gotten it from blood transfusions, some from vaccinations in the military. Some had no idea how.

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