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Are People Living With HIV More Prone to Long COVID? [Yes]
POZ.com ^ | Oct 11, 2022 | Liz Highleyman

Posted on 10/13/2022 9:04:05 AM PDT by fwdude

People living with HIV may be more likely to develop long-term symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection—commonly known as long COVID—and this might be related to differences in immune function, according to research published in the October 1 edition of AIDS.

The study, conducted by Michael Peluso, MD, of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and a team of colleagues that includes long-time HIV cure researchers Steven Deeks, MD, and Timothy Henrich, MD, found that HIV status “strongly predicted” long COVID. “There are lots of reasons why this might be the case based on what we know about the effects of HIV on health,” Peluso told POZ.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: chat; hiv; homosexualagenda
A no brainer. But I'd be more apt to believe it is a complex of factors, HIV being just one of them in a high-risk lifestyle population.
1 posted on 10/13/2022 9:04:05 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude
Obviously! A weakened immune system would be one of the biggest danger signs for the likelihood of getting the virus *and* the likelihood of serious problems once infected.
2 posted on 10/13/2022 9:27:31 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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To: fwdude
Age...diabetes...weight...lung disease (e.g.,Emphysema) and weakened immune system are the main danger signs.
3 posted on 10/13/2022 9:29:47 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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To: fwdude

Now we know why there’s a sudden interest in making long covid a long term disability so people with HIV can collect disability.


4 posted on 10/13/2022 9:45:47 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP
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To: fwdude

This is so unfair! It seems like our gay friends are always taking it in the . . backside.


5 posted on 10/13/2022 10:58:51 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I was born into this world with nothing . . and I still have most of it .)
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How in heck do they determine if brain fog is caused by long Covid or the accelerated aging that HIV causes? Did the researchers even take HIV’s accelerated aging into account? HIV, even treated with antiretrovirals, causes the HIV infected to age 14 years. This aging can cause dementia or HAND: HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder. This aging also can cause cancers, kidney disease, and other diseases. To look up FR articles on HIV’s accelerated aging, check FR keywords hivaging and hivacceleratedaging.


6 posted on 10/13/2022 5:40:16 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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You’re preaching to the choir, FRiend.


7 posted on 10/14/2022 7:21:45 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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