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Fauci said he did not think that HIV infection in itself made people more likely to be hospitalised and die from COVID-19. He said he thought the higher rates of severe COVID illness seen in some studies of people with HIV were caused by the age profile of the population (over half of people with HIV in the US are now over 50) and by the fact that people with HIV were more likely to have co-morbidities.
He also acknowledged that socioeconomic factors, including ethnicity, had a strong influence on whether people infected with COVID ended up in hospital. Latino/Latina people and Native American people were now more likely than any other population to be hospitalised, with rates of 671 and 660 hospitalisations per 100,000 population, respectively. Black Americans’ hospitalisation rate was now 598 per 100,000. In contrast, non-Hispanic White people and Asians had hospitalisation rates around 2