Title:
HIV Does Not Appear to Worsen COVID-19 Outcomes
Author:
Heather Boerner
Published:
Medscape, 2 July 2020
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/933340?src=soc_fb_200706_mscpedt_news_mdscp_hiv&faf=1
From the article:
People living with HIV who are admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 are no more likely to die than those without HIV, an analysis conducted in New York City shows. This is despite the fact that comorbidities associated with worse COVID-19 outcomes were more common in the HIV group.
"We don't see any signs that people with HIV should take extra precautions" to protect themselves from COVID-19, said Keith Sigel, MD, associate professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and the lead researcher on the study, published online June 28 in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Title of scholarly article:
People with HIV Infection: Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients in New York City
Authors:
Keith Sigel, MD, PhD, Talia Swartz, MD, PhD, Eddye Golden, MPH, Ishan Paranjpe, Sulaiman Somani, Felix Richter, PhD, Jessica K De Freitas, Riccardo Miotto, PhD, Shan Zhao, MD, Paz Polak, PhD, Tinaye Mutetwa, MS, Stephanie Factor, MD, MPH, Saurabh Mehandru, MD, Michael Mullen, MD, Francesca Cossarini, MD, Erwin Bottinger, MD, Zahi Fayad, PhD, Miriam Merad, PhD, Sacha Gnjatic, PhD, Judith Aberg, MD, Alexander Charney, MD, PhD, Girish Nadkarni, MD, MPH, CPH, Benjamin S Glicksberg, PhD,
Published:
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 28 June 2020, ciaa880, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa880