Validation of a severity-of-illness score in HIV-positive patients requiring intensive care unit admission for mechanical ventilation: Table 1

HIV and SARS-CoV-2 co-infection: The diagnostic challenges of dual pandemics

“…In a resource-constrained setting, it is common practice to ration access to intensive care, particularly in patients with HIV infection who are not established on ART and whose case is complicated by AIDS-defining illnesses, owing to their historical poor prognosis. [4] At present we do not know what the outcomes of critically ill HIV/SARS-CoV-2 co-infected patients will be. When there is widespread community transmission of SARS-CoV-2, with high numbers of severely ill patients requiring ICU care, distinguishing between COVID-19, PCP and other AIDS-defining illnesses at the outset will become of critical importance.…”