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COVID-19 in HIV: a Review of Published Case Reports
- This article strives to give an overall summary of all HIV related COVID-19 articles available at the time of publication (11/02/2020) in order to assess the conditions of HIV afflicted patients during the pandemic
- Out of the 43 total patients assessed in all articles, 30 (69.77%) are male, 11 are female (25.58%), and 2 are transgender (4.65%)
- Most patients were found to be from the US as well as China, the UK, Iran, South Korea, as well as a few others on varying continents
- 25 patients comorbid with HIV and COVID-19 also had preexisting heart conditions
- Most experienced the most common symptoms of fever and cough, while additional symptoms were found in less than 30% of patients
- 34 out of 43 patients had no contact history with COVID-19 reported
- 6 (13.95%) of this subset of patients died during hospitalization for COVID-19
- It was found that patients taking a combination of tenofovir and emtricitabine had the best hospitalization outcomes of all assessed
- An overwhelming amount of patients assessed in this study were also over the age of 50, which puts them in a higher risk group when compared to other age groups
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Updated 2020-11-10
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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)
Biomedical Sciences