https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/06/south-africa-c...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...eak-catalyst-transformation-hiv-tuberculosis/

On June 9, Cape Town’s regional government published its first data on the underlying causes influencing coronavirus deaths. It showed that people living with HIV or active TB were more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than people living without those conditions. COVID-19 mortalities were more likely to have diabetes, high blood pressure, or kidney disease—trends similar to those seen in China and the United States. But many questions remain, including why patients taking HIV antiretrovirals were as likely to die as HIV-positive people who weren’t on such medications, an outcome that runs counter to what scientists expected.