What is certain is that people with heart disease, lung diseases and diabetes have a higher risk of getting sick and dying as a result of the Covid-19 coronavirus.
Data from nearly 45 000 patients in China, where the Covid-19 outbreak started, show that older patients and those with other illnesses get sicker, with higher fatalities. Medical professionals, however, still don’t know if Sars-Cov-2 [the virus that causes the sickness Covid-19] affects the heart muscle itself, as is the case with flu.
According to the American Diabetes Association, people with diabetes are more prone to develop serious symptoms and complications than an average member of the population when they contract the virus.In respect of the possible impact on people living with HIV, experts can only speculate based on how HIV reacts to similar viruses such as flu, said Professor Salim Abdool Karim, director of the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa.
According to a press statement released by the Academy for Science of SA, people living with HIV, who don’t use ARVs, are eight times more likely to end up in hospital with flu than the average member of the population.However, Karim emphasised that the country’s five million HIV-positive patients who are using ARVs have the same chance of getting flu as any member of the population.South Africa is also battling one of the worst TB epidemics in the world.
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