It's too early to know how many Americans with HIV are dying of coronavirus. But for blacks, already more likely to die from HIV/AIDS than any other group in America, it's a double pandemic — two lethal and incurable viruses hitting at once.
But then it hit black people with a sudden ferocity. Many of the victims died alone, separated from family. Hospital workers were bewildered. The virus was unstoppable.That's what Pernessa Seele saw when AIDS first devastated the black community in the late 1980s. She worked then as an immunologist at a Harlem hospital. She's seeing a similar pattern now as the coronavirus ravages African American communities in Chicago, New York, Detroit, New Orleans and other places.
"The reality is that HIV can also increase the risk of developing other chronic conditions that increase the likelihood of complications from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus," Innocent says.Medical supplies are delivered outside of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York on April 2, 2020. When asked if she could recall another time when the black community faced two deadly pandemics simultaneously, Innocent paused before answering.
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