From Metro Weekly, Monday, March 16, 2020:
NewsDr. Sebastian Ruhs, the director of the Infectious Diseases Center of Excellence at Chase Brexton Health Care in Baltimore, notes that there’s no difference in the risk posed to a healthy LGBTQ person and a healthy heterosexual person — although some LGBTQ people may be at higher risk due to other underlying health conditions or lifestyle choices, such as smoking or vaping, that might compromise their pulmonary health.
“There’s a lot we don’t know. While not a lot of people with HIV have been infected at this point, to draw any clear conclusions,” Ruhs notes. “The current data that we have is that someone who has a normal CD4 and is on medication to maintain an undetectable viral load does not behave any different from someone who is HIV-negative. So the risk for that population isn’t any higher. In that respect, corona appears to behave in a manner like other seasonal viruses do.”
Transgender people also appear not to be more susceptible to COVID-19, but are asked to follow similar behaviors to reduce the possibility of infection or spread.
