A "community" is 1.2B or 66M people? Has nothing t
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Posted On: 08/31/2021 4:12:11 AM
A "community" is 1.2B or 66M people? Has nothing to do with population totals/per capita prevalence of HIV.
To date, areas with overlap of the two pandemics have been associated with Covid Variants of Concern.. South Africa, Brazil, urban centers like London, NYC, Southern California.. India has been extremely (probably deliberately) opaque about Delta's origins, specifically, but odds are it arose in someone immunocompromised in one of any number of overcrowded areas with little to no sanitation. But it's not remotely a third world / poverty based phenomenon.. if anything, history to date suggests it's correlated with urban centers. I'd say the only outlier so far is Chile/Peru and Lambda.. and while it was identified in Peru, there's no guarantee it originated there. Or maybe it did. Same goes for all of these variants, really.. whether these urban areas are incubators or just attractors is up for debate.
What isn't really debated is the emergence of human variant incubators.. and top of the list are the immunocompromised:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03...-variants/
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2104756
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021....228v1.full
I don't think it's necessary to post any links between HIV infection and immunosuppression.
Additionally, nothing is revolutionary or novel about the concept.. incidences and prevalence of coinfection (HIV and TB, for example) are fairly well studied. I've posted links to information about this many times on here . You may have been on hiatus and missed them.
To date, areas with overlap of the two pandemics have been associated with Covid Variants of Concern.. South Africa, Brazil, urban centers like London, NYC, Southern California.. India has been extremely (probably deliberately) opaque about Delta's origins, specifically, but odds are it arose in someone immunocompromised in one of any number of overcrowded areas with little to no sanitation. But it's not remotely a third world / poverty based phenomenon.. if anything, history to date suggests it's correlated with urban centers. I'd say the only outlier so far is Chile/Peru and Lambda.. and while it was identified in Peru, there's no guarantee it originated there. Or maybe it did. Same goes for all of these variants, really.. whether these urban areas are incubators or just attractors is up for debate.
What isn't really debated is the emergence of human variant incubators.. and top of the list are the immunocompromised:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03...-variants/
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2104756
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021....228v1.full
I don't think it's necessary to post any links between HIV infection and immunosuppression.
Additionally, nothing is revolutionary or novel about the concept.. incidences and prevalence of coinfection (HIV and TB, for example) are fairly well studied. I've posted links to information about this many times on here . You may have been on hiatus and missed them.
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