HIV Does Not Appear to Worsen COVID-19 Outcomes (based on a scholarly article titled People with HIV Infection: Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients in New York City)

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

Scholarly Article - an original investigation (22 April 2020) - Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area

Title:
Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area

Authors:
Safiya Richardson, Jamie S. Hirsch, Mangala Narasimhan, James M. Crawford, Thomas McGinn, Karina W. Davidson & the Northwell COVID-19 Research Consortium

Published:
JAMA, published online 22 April 2020 [An original investigation]
Click here to access.

From the abstract:
Importance ... There is limited information describing the presenting characteristics and outcomes of US patients requiring hospitalization for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Objective ... To describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in a US health care system.

Design, Setting, and Participants ... Case series of patients with COVID-19 admitted to 12 hospitals in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York, within the Northwell Health system. The study included all sequentially hospitalized patients between March 1, 2020, and April 4, 2020, inclusive of these dates.

Research Letter (JAMA, 29 April 2020) - Variation in COVID-19 Hospitalizations and Deaths Across New York City Boroughs

Title:
Variation in COVID-19 Hospitalizations and Deaths Across New York City Boroughs

Authors:
Rishi K. Wadhera, Priya Wadhera, Prakriti Gaba, Jose F. Figueroa, Karen E. Joynt Maddox, Robert W. Yeh & Changyu Shen

Published:
JAMA, published online 29 April 2020
Available: file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/jama_wadhera_2020_ld_200038.pdf

Focus of research letter:
"In the US, New York City has emerged as the epicenter of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.1 As of April 25, 2020, more than 150 000 cases had been reported, which is approximately 17% of total cases in the US.2,3 New York City is composed of 5 boroughs (the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island), each with unique demographic, socioeconomic, and community characteristics.  

Prior analyses have shown health inequities across these boroughs, but whether similar patterns have also emerged amid the COVID-19 pandemic is unknown.4 Understanding the patterns could inform public health and policy strategies to mitigate the ongoing spread of COVID-19, and future approaches to address a possible resurgence of the disease. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to examine population characteristics and hospital bed capacities across the 5 boroughs and evaluate whether differences in the rates of COVID-19 testing, hospitalizations, and deaths have emerged in these communities."