Virus

Disease

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Biology

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Coronavirus

Medicine

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Outbreak

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Virology

Pathology

Journal of Medical Virology

Originating from Wuhan, China, the novel coronavirus 2019 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 [SARS-CoV-2]) has been spreading worldwide since the end of 2019.1 There has been a reported case of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and SARS-CoV-2 coinfection in a man in Wuhan, China,2 but as of today there have been few reports of coinfection. This letter to the editor seeks to contribute four more cases to the literature. Presented here are four cases of coinfection of HIV and SARS-CoV-2 from Long Island, New York. Their main characteristics are summarized in Table 1. A 56-years-old male started to feel fatigued as well as noted a decreased in his sense of taste and smell 3 days after returning to New York from a trip to Florida. At his local community physician he was given empiric antibiotics for a presumed sinus infection. Although he did not develop fever or respiratory symptoms he became concerned when his symptoms did not resolve after 9 days and he went to an urgent care clinic. Due to conc...

Four cases: Human immunodeficiency virus and novel coronavirus 2019 Co‐infection in patients from Long Island, New York