Influenza A or COVID-19 Reinfection? Making the Right Diagnosis during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Ms. R is a 51-year-old African American single mother who works as a medical technician in a local hospital. She has been a patient at a suburban family practice for fifteen years. Her past medical history includes Hypertension, HIV, Obesity, Prediabetes, Hyperlipidemia, and Vitamin D deficiency. All these comorbidities were controlled with medications and/or lifestyle modifications at the time of her initial infection with SARS-CoV-2 including an undetectable HIV viral load for the last 15 years.