CDC Warns People With HIV Have a Higher COVID-19 Reinfection Chance

People with HIV have a higher chance of being reinfected with COVID-19, the CDC says.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta on April 23, 2020. Tami Chappell/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that people with HIV have a higher chance of being reinfected with COVID-19 than those who don’t have HIV.

A recent CDC study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases evaluated 453,587 adults in Chicago who were infected with COVID-19. They then looked at the COVID-19 testing results with Chicago’s AIDS and HIV reporting system.