The clinical outcomes of COVID-19 in HIV-positive patients: A systematic review of current evidence.
Seyed Ahmad Seyed AlinaghiAmirali KarimiMehrzad MohsseniPourAlireza BarzegarySeyed Peyman MirghaderiAmirata FakhfouriSolmaz SaeidiArmin RaziHengameh MojdeganlouMarcarious M TantuoyirAmir Masoud AfsahiSeyed Ahmad Seyed AlinaghiOmid DadrasPublished in: Immunity, inflammation and disease (2021)
Based on the current review, we concluded that HIV patients at advanced stages (3 or 4) of the disease, whose CD4 counts are low, may show less severe COVID-19 infection symptoms. Similarly, Interference can reduce the severity of immune reactions and subsequent cytokine storms and consequently mitigate the symptoms. Therefore, in most of the studies, the majority of HIV patients showed no severe symptoms and completely recovered from COVID 19 infection.