Thread by @jenkatesdc

IMPORTANT UPDATE: In advance of the upcoming #ACIP meeting, the @HIVinfo_NIH "Guidance for COVID-19 and People with HIV", recommends that #HIV be included as a high-risk medical condition for #COVID19 vaccine priority.
clinicalinfo.hiv.gov/en/guidelines/…

ACIP has already recommended that people with high-risk medical conditions be prioritized in phase 1c. However, HIV has been in the "may be at risk" category and therefore not necessarily prioritized; in fact, most states have not done so. In our analysis,

we found that only 12 states explicitly included HIV on their list of high-risk medical conditions (KS, MT, NE, NH, NM, NY, NC, PA, RI, TN, UT, VA). However,
kff.org/policy-watch/t….

since then, one of these states (NE) moved to age-based prioritization only. At the same time, another (DC) announced its list of medical conditions and includes HIV. But even if CDC follows the NIH recommendation and adds HIV to the list of high risk medical conditions,

it is unclear what this will mean in practice as more states move to age-based prioritization, a likely topic at the ACIP meeting, as @bylenasun has reported here. As she notes, "The medically vulnerable find their priority status slipping away". washingtonpost.com/health/2021/02…