COVID-19 mortality among people with diagnosed HIV compared to those without during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in England.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We describe COVID-19 mortality among people with and without HIV during the first wave of the pandemic in England.

Methods

National surveillance data on adults (aged ≥ 15 years) with diagnosed HIV resident in England were linked to national COVID-19 mortality surveillance data (2 March 2020-16 June 2020); HIV clinicians verified linked cases and provided information on the circumstances of death. We present COVID-19 mortality rates by HIV status, using negative binomial regression to assess the association between HIV and mortality, adjusting for gender, age and ethnicity.

Results

Overall, 99 people with HIV, including 61 of black ethnicity, died of/with COVID-19 (107/100 000) compared with 49 483 people without HIV (109/100 000). Compared to people without

SUBMITTER: Brown AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8652768 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature