Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 and Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Case Series

Childs, Kate; Post, Frank A.; Norcross, Claire; Ottaway, Zoë; Hamlyn, Elizabeth; Quinn, Killian; Juniper, Thomas; Taylor, Chris

doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa657

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“…Early data from small cohorts and case series in other countries included a high proportion of patients experiencing severe disease. [22][23][24] A single-centre cohort in Madrid found that among 51 people living with HIV and diagnosed with COVID-19, 28 required hospital admission, and 13 had severe disease; the mortality rate among COVID-19 cases co-infected with HIV in this study was noted to be around double that in similar aged individuals in the general population. 9 Associations between HIV and adverse COVID-19 outcomes appear to be smaller among patients already hospitalised with COVID-19: the HR for mortality was attenuated to 1.45 (1.14-1.84) in the Western Cape study when restricted to hospitalised patients, 8 while an analysis of patients hospitalised in New York found no difference in adverse outcomes between HIV infected and demographically similar uninfected individuals.…”

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HIV infection and COVID-19 death: population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform

Bhaskaran

Rentsch

MacKenna

et al. 2020

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Background: It is unclear whether HIV infection is associated with risk of COVID-19 death. We aimed to investigate this in a large-scale population-based study in England. Methods: Working on behalf of NHS England, we used the OpenSAFELY platform to analyse routinely collected electronic primary care data linked to national death registrations. People with a primary care record for HIV infection were compared to people without HIV. COVID-19 death was defined by ICD-10 codes U07.1 or U07.2 anywhere on the death certificate. Cox regression models were used to estimate the association between HIV infection and COVID-19 death, initially adjusted for age and sex, then adding adjustment for index of multiple deprivation and ethnicity, and finally for a broad range of comorbidities. Interaction terms were added to assess effect modification by age, sex, ethnicity, comorbidities and calendar time. Results: 17.3 million adults were included, of whom 27,480 (0.16%) had HIV recorded. People living with HIV were more likely to be male, of black ethnicity, and from a more deprived geographical area than the general population. There were 14,882 COVID-19 deaths during the study period, with 25 among people with HIV. People living with HIV had nearly three-fold higher risk of COVID-19 death than those without HIV after adjusting for age and sex (HR=2.90, 95% CI 1.96-4.30). The association was attenuated but risk remained substantially raised, after adjustment for deprivation and ethnicity (adjusted HR=2.52, 1.70-3.73) and further adjustment for comorbidities (HR=2.30, 1.55-3.41). There was some evidence that the association was larger among people of black ethnicity (HR = 3.80, 2.15-6.74, compared to 1.64, 0.92-2.90 in non-black individuals, p-interaction=0.045) Interpretation: HIV infection was associated with a markedly raised risk of COVID-19 death in a country with high levels of antiretroviral therapy coverage and viral suppression; the association was larger in people of black ethnicity.

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HIV infection and COVID-19 death: population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform

Bhaskaran

Rentsch

MacKenna

et al. 2020

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152

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“…We identified 1,908 records and included 19 studies in our final qualitative analysis ( Figure 1). Seventeen studies [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] were peer-reviewed and two were preprints [27,28]. Quality appraisal is included in Tables 1, S2 and S3.…”

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“…CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. (which was not certified by peer review) preprint and/or PLWH without COVID-19, [11,12,14,15,23,25,26], two studies compared only to a HIV-negative cohort [13,19], two studies compared only cohorts of PLWH with and without COVID-19 [17,22] and three studies compared only the characteristics of PLWH with different COVID-19 disease severity [20,21,24].…”

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“…A US hospital study found that PLWH and COVID-19 who survived were more likely to have been treated with NRTIs that those PLWH who died (99% vs 89%, p=0.04) in univariate analysis [13]. Seven smaller studies (n=18-93 PLWH with COVID- 19) reported no significant association between ART-regimen and COVID-19 severity amongst PLWH [14,15,17,[20][21][22][23][24].…”

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Risk of adverse COVID-19 outcomes for people living with HIV: a rapid review and meta-analysis

Mellor

Bast

Jones

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Objective: To assess whether people living with HIV (PLWH) are at increased risk of COVID-19 mortality or adverse outcomes, and whether antiretroviral therapy (ART) influences this risk. Design: Rapid review with meta-analysis and narrative synthesis. Methods: We searched databases including Embase, Medline, medRxiv, and Google Scholar up to 26th August 2020 for studies describing COVID-19 outcomes in PLWH and conducted a meta-analysis of higher quality studies. Results: We identified 1,908 studies and included 19 in the review. In a meta-analysis of five studies, PLWH had a higher risk of COVID-19 mortality (hazard ratio (HR) 1.93, 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 1.59-2.34) compared to people without HIV. Risk of death remained elevated for PLWH in a subgroup analysis of hospitalised cohorts (HR 1.54, 95% CI: 1.05-2.24) and studies of PLWH across all settings (HR 2.08, 95%CI: 1.69-2.56). Eight other studies assessed the association between HIV and COVID-19 outcomes, but provided inconclusive, lower-quality evidence due to potential confounding and selection bias. There were insufficient data on the effect of CD4+ T cell count and HIV viral load on COVID-19 outcomes. Eleven studies reported COVID-19 outcomes by ART-regimen. In the two largest studies, tenofovir-disoproxil-fumarate (TDF)-based regimens were associated with a lower risk of adverse COVID-19 outcomes, although these analyses are susceptible to confounding by comorbidities. Conclusion: Evidence is emerging that suggests a moderately increased risk of COVID-19 mortality amongst PLWH. Further investigation into the relationship between COVID-19 outcomes and CD4+ T cell count, HIV viral load, ART and the use of TDF is warranted.

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“…The incidence and course of COVID-19 disease due to SARS-CoV-2 in people living with HIV (PLWH) is uncertain, with little current evidence to suggest worse outcomes. [1][2][3] We report 18 PLWH, admitted to hospital with COVID-19 between March and April 2020. The majority (16/18) had positive PCR swabs for SARS-CoV-2, and two had negative swabs and no other respiratory pathogens isolated with typical COVID-19 imaging and history.…”

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Descriptive account of 18 adults with known HIV infection hospitalised with SARS-CoV-2 infection

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ObjectiveTo report on the clinical characteristics and outcome of 18 people living with HIV (PLWH) hospitalised with SARS-CoV-2 infection in a London teaching hospital.MethodsThe hospital notes of 18 PLWH hospitalised with SARS-CoV-2 infection were retrospectively reviewed alongside data concerning their HIV demographics from an established HIV Database.ResultsThe majority (16/18) had positive PCR swabs for SARS-CoV-2, and two had negative swabs but typical COVID-19 imaging and history. Most were male (14/18, 78%), median age 63 years (range 47–77 years). Two-thirds were migrants, nine (50%) of Black, Asian and minority ethnicity (BAME). All were diagnosed with HIV for many years (range 8–31 years), and all had an undetectable HIV viral load (<40 copies/mL). The median CD4 prior to admission was 439 (IQR 239–651), and 10/16 (63%) had a CD4 nadir below 200 cells/mm3. Almost all (17/18) had been diagnosed with at least one comorbidity associated with SARS-CoV-2 prior to admission. 3/18 patients died. None received mechanical ventilation. Hospital stay and clinical course did not appear prolonged (median 9 days).ConclusionsOur data suggest that PLWH may not necessarily have prolonged or complex admissions to hospital when compared with the general hospital and national population admitted with COVID-19. Many had low nadir CD4 counts and potentially impaired functional immune restoration. The PLWH group was younger than generally reported for COVID-19, and the majority were male with multiple complex comorbidities. These patients had frequent contact with hospital settings increasing potential for nosocomial acquisition and increased risk of severe COVID-19.

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Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 and Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Case Series

Cited by 78 publications

References 4 publications

HIV infection and COVID-19 death: population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform

HIV infection and COVID-19 death: population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform

Risk of adverse COVID-19 outcomes for people living with HIV: a rapid review and meta-analysis

Descriptive account of 18 adults with known HIV infection hospitalised with SARS-CoV-2 infection

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