'They Know What A Pandemic Is': HIV Survivors See Similarities To AIDS Epidemic
NPR'They Know What A Pandemic Is': HIV Survivors See Similarities To AIDS Epidemic toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In January, two weeks after Rick Solomon joined the YMCA near his home, he fell ill. Africa Kenyan Health Workers Manage COVID-19, HIV In Nairobi Kenyan Health Workers Manage COVID-19, HIV In Nairobi Listen · 3:52 3:52 "The test the lab used was not FDA-approved," he said. "People with HIV are radically underrepresented in the different cohorts coming from Europe and China with very advanced, severe forms of COVID-19," Cachay said. Sponsor Message "You'd go out in the street at night, and no one would be there," said Solomon, the 65-year-old Berkeley, Calif., resident who is enrolled in a COVID-19 study at San Francisco General. "The apocalyptic scenes of New York City ICUs overwhelmed with people with COVID-19 pneumonia remind me of our early days where patients with AIDS presented very late with pneumocystis pneumonia and required ventilators," Gottlieb said.
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