HIV-positive people have a number of risk factors, including chronic inflammation and comorbidities, that increase the likelihood of long-term symptoms.
People living with HIV may be more prone to develop long COVID, the wide range of symptoms that can last for months or years after SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to a growing body of evidence. While HIV-positive people have several risk factors that may make them more susceptible to long-term problems after a bout of COVID-19, much remains to be learned.
Since early in the pandemic, some people have reported persistent symptoms that arise after acute COVID, including relentless fatigue, cognitive impairment (“brain fog”), shortness of breath, post-exertional malaise (inability to recover after exercise) and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). More severe acute COVID and various comorbidities raise the risk for prolonged symptoms, while vaccines are protective, but some formerly healthy fully vaccinated people who had mild acute SARS-CoV-2 infection have nonetheless developed long COVID.
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Source : POZ
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