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HIV is to AIDS as SARS-CoV-2 is to COVID

• est31 5y ago
  Not entirely. AIDS is only the name for the final stage of the disease, when your immune system is rendered totally unable to defend your body. It usually takes years from an HIV infection until AIDS develops. In the first viremic phase of HIV you can even have fever but often people don't notice it or put it off as some innocent cold. COVID-19 however is used however to refer to all stages and forms of the disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#Acquired_immunodeficiency_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#Acquired_immunodefici...