HIV and risk of COVID-19 death: a population cohort study from the Western Cape Province, South Africa.
Mary-Ann DaviesPublished in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2020)
HIV was associated with a doubling of COVID-19 mortality risk. While our findings may over-estimate the HIV-associated risk COVID-19 death due to residual confounding, people with HIV should be considered a high-risk group for COVID-19 management.