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This is interesting and scary at the same time ...
https://www.quora.com/profile/Mitchell-Tsai
Mitchell Tsai
Virus researcher at Harvard Medical School in 1980s June 5
A 36-year-old woman in South Africa with HIV carried Covid for 216 days, during which Covid viruses accumulated 32 mutations - 13 to the spike protein (could help Covid viruses escape immune responses).
If more such cases are found, it raises the prospect that HIV infection could be a source of new variants simply because the patients could carry the virus for longer.
Scientists only spotted this case because she was enrolled in a study of 300 people with HIV looking at their immune response to Covid.
The researchers also found that four other people with HIV had carried the coronavirus for longer than a month.
…there have been reported cases of people with kidney transplants testing positive for almost a year.
https://www.businessinsider.com/woman-hiv-had-coronavirus-216-days-virus-mutated-2021-6